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Scientific Visual Storytelling Contest @ PWS12

As part of celebrating the 10th Anniversary of CICASP , and to reaffirm our commitment to promoting good science communication, we hosted a Scientific Visual Storytelling Contest during the 12th PWS Symposium . The goal of a scientific visual story is to inform an audience...
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CICASP celebrates 10 years

The CICASP Team
Photo from front row left to right: Heungjin Ryu, Ikuma Adachi, Yuko Hattori, Hikaru Wakamori, Takakazu Yumoto (current Director), Tetsuro Matsuzawa (Founding Director), David Hill, Cintia Garai, Fred Bercovitch, Andrew MacIntosh, Susumu Tomiya. Photo Credit: Miho Nakamura,...
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Do monkeys see baby faces in puppies?

Here at CICASP, we love babies of all kinds. How did we evolve to be fixated on baby faces of not just our own kind but also other animals (think puppies, kittens, ducklings...)? Yuri Kawaguchi , a PRI doctoral student and resident expert on baby faces, wants to know. She...
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Chasing parasites with molecular tools

Dr. Liesbeth Frias and her colleagues recently published an open-access paper on parasite transmission among primates living on the island of Borneo. Here she tells us what it's like to search for primate fecal samples (poops!) in Bornean forests, and what we can learn about a...
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Nerd Nite #2

Love is in the eyes of the beer-holder Nerd Nite Inuyama takes its inspiration from from the popular Nerd Nite franchise now operating in cities worldwide. In our second installment, we bring together spaekers and guests to ponder the various significances of love and attraction...
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Conserv’Session Talks X Inuyama

New conservation outreach event at the Japan Monkey Centre
This forthcoming session will engage experts with the public by discussing about the threats of having certain species as pets. Public’s knowledge and attitude toward the illegal pet trade, animals’...
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