Here on Inuyama Campus, researchers study primates and other animals, alive and dead (think fossils and roadkills). But no one is more dedicated to uncovering the cognitive and behavioral connections between the living and the dead than André Gonçalves , who...
This time of the year, if you are hiking on a snowy mountain and see what appears to be a Yeti walking towards you, you should probably be alarmed and call the appropriate authorities (sorry, PRI doesn't have Yeti experts!).
Slow lorises, whose lives in the wild are mostly shrouded in the darkness of night, have long been considered primarily solitary primates. A growing body of evidence, however, suggests that at least some of the species are socially more active than previously thought. A new...
You know Valentine's Day is right around the corner when you step into your local grocery store and are immediately surrounded by an overload of red boxes and ornaments. While other customers are deciding what to buy for whom, many of our scientist friends from PRI like to...
Dr. Morgane Allanic , who recently completed her doctoral program at PRI, studies how bonobos interact with one another to better understand the lives of our closest living relatives. Earlier this year, Morgane and her colleagues published papers (see here and here ) that...
Monitoring stress levels of captive or protected animals is important for improving their well-being. How can we do it accurately and quickly enough to help identify causes of acute stress, in a way that doesn't itself cause extra stress to the animals? Nelson Broche...
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...
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...
New research involving CICASP's Andrew MacIntosh pits penguins against extreme environmental conditions during the 2013-2014 breeding season at Dumont d'Urville station, Adélie Land, Antarctica. This research was published in the journal Ecography . Loss of a generation...
