Wildlife Research Center
Inuyama Campus (WRC)
Members of this section conduct behavioral and ecological research on wild, provisioned and captive primate populations in Japan, and on wild populations in various countries across Africa and South/Southeast Asia. Recent topics of interest include the speciation process of bonobos in DR Congo, female transfer, reproductive ecology and personality in bonobos. In Asia, research is being conducted in Japan, China, Indonesia, Malaysia, Sri Lanka, India, Thailand and
Vietnam on topics including feeding ecology, phylogeography, disease ecology, sexual behavior, vocal communication and behavioral endocrinology.
Section Members
Wildlife Research Center
The research conducted at the WRC focuses on endangered large animals from the viewpoints of Mind, Body, Life, Genome, and Health-Longevity. For this purpose, the WRC consists of 5 research departments (Comparative Cognitive Science, Zoological Science, Conservation Biology, Human Evolutionary Science, Health and Longevity Science), 1 donated department (Welfare and Longevity Research), 3 research stations in Japan (Koshima field station, Yakushima field station, Kumamoto Sanctuary), and 7 field stations in Borneo and Africa (Danum valley in Borneo, Ugala and Mahale in Tanzania, Kahuzi and Wamba in Congo, Mukaraba in Gabon, Bossou-Nimba in Guinea).
