Professor Pamela Asquith will be our guest speaker for the 11th International Primatology Lecture: Observing Primatologists: My journey into Japanese Primate Studies . In this lecture, Prof. Asquith will describe her research...
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!).
Primate behavioral ecologist Dr. John Mitani will be the speaker of the 8th International Primatology Lecture, titled " My Life among the Apes ". Dr. Mitani is a Professor Emeritus in the Department of Anthropology at...
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...
The threat of the sixth mass extinction looms larger with every in action of ours to protect Earth's biodiversity. Today, close to two in three primate species are threatened with extinction ( Estrada et al., 2017 ). What responsibilities do we, the human primate, bear...
What kinds of online social networking services (SNSs) are you using? Facebook, ResearchGate, Instagram, Twitter, or TikTok? These days, many researchers use SNSs to communicate with ...
The interconnected crises of climate change, biodiversity loss, and human conflicts demand urgent actions by governments, corporations, and citizens. Yet it is easy for us as individuals to feel hopeless in the face of such daunting challenges given the multitudes of...
Professor Karen B. Strier will be the sixth speaker of the International Primatology Lectures on Past, Present and Future Perspectives of the Field . She is Vilas Research Professor and Irven DeVore Professor of Anthropology at the University of...
On October 26, 2021, Kyoto University announced plans for the reorganization of the Primate Research Institute. Please follow this link for information (in Japanese).
The fifth talk in our " International Primatology Lectures on Past, Present and Future Perspectives of the Field " will be given by Dr. Elisabetta Visalberghi. Dr. Visalberghi has been the Research Director at the Istituto di Scienze e Tecnologie della Cognizione del...
