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Send us Fan Mail This episode of The PrimateCast: Origins is taken from CICASP's International Primatology Lecture Series: Past, Present and Future Perspectives of the Field . The IPLS is dedicated to providing origin stories told by experienced researchers in primatology and related fields. The lectures are conducted via Zoom within our CICASP Seminar in Science Communication for graduate st...

Send us Fan Mail This is podcast #69 with Dr. Takeshi Furuichi. I was really excited about this interview. I've known our guest - Dr. Takeshi Furuichi - since I was a grad student in the Section of Social Systems Evolution at Kyoto University's now rebranded Primate Research Institute. He was the Section Head until this year when we were all redistributed together to the Wildlife Researc...

Send us Fan Mail In this installment of The PrimateCast we continue with our International Primatology Lecture Series: Past, Present and Future Perspectives of the Field . The IPLS is dedicated to providing origin stories about experienced researchers of primatology and related fields, through lectures delivered by those very individuals. The lectures are conducted via Zoom within our CICASP Semin...

Send us Fan Mail This is podcast #67 with Dr. Susumu Tomiya. It's such a pleasure to be able to share my interview with Dr. Susumu Tomiya , my colleague for the past 3+ years in the Center for International Collaboration and Advanced Studies in Primatology (CICASP). Susumu and I have worked closely over that time toward developing our capacity at Kyoto University to teach science communicatio...

Send us Fan Mail In this installment of The PrimateCast we continue with our International Primatology Lecture Series: Past, Present and Future Perspectives of the Field .. The IPLS is dedicated to providing origin stories about experienced researchers of primatology and related fields, through lectures delivered by those very individuals. The lectures are conducted via Zoom within our CICASP Semi...

Send us Fan Mail This is podcast #65 with Dr. Ikuma Adachi. Before getting into the interview, I announce with great sadness the passing of Dr. Steve Ross, as announced by Lincoln Park Zoo . Steve was a formidable figure in chimpanzee conservation and animal welfare science in general, in addition to being an all around good person and key figure at Chicago's Lincoln Park Zoo. He will be miss...

Send us Fan Mail In this installment of The PrimateCast we continue with our International Primatology Lecture Series: Past, Present and Future Perspectives of the Field .  " Dreams are not destinations, they're journeys. So, dare to dream " - Zimbo In the third podcast in this lecture series, we hear from Dr. Ramesh Boonratana , Zimbo, talking about why he's not a primatologis...

Send us Fan Mail This is podcast #63 with Drs. Chia Tan and Fred Bercovitch - and was recorded in March 2015. The setting for this interview was one of the symposiums for our Primatology and Wildlife Science graduate program at Kyoto University, where students and wildlife professionals gathered to share their research and efforts towards conservation, environmental stewardship and advocacy. At th...

Send us Fan Mail In this installment of The PrimateCast we continue with our International Primatology Lecture Series: Past, Present and Future Perspectives of the Field .  "Expect Problems; you won't be disappointed" - Vernon Reynolds   In the second podcast in this lecture series we hear from Dr. Vernon Reynolds, in a talk entitled " Budongo: The Making of a Field Station &qu...

Send us Fan Mail Our guest in this installment of The PrimateCast is Dr. Julie Duboscq , researcher at the French National Center for Scientific Research based at the National Museum of Natural History in Paris, in the department of EcoAnthropology. I interviewed Julie just before she left Japan to join the CNRS after a five years of postdoctoral study here at the Primate Research Insitute. Note t...

Send us Fan Mail In this installment of The PrimateCast we introduce a new series that CICASP launched in June 2021, the International Primatology Lecture Series: Past, Present and Future Perspectives of the Field . The IPLS is dedicated to providing origin stories about experienced researchers of primatology and related fields, through lectures delivered by those very individuals. The lectures ar...

Send us Fan Mail Our guest in this installment of The PrimateCast is Dr. Cécile Sarabian , co-host of this very podcast and producer of Conservation Voices for The PrimateCast . I interviewed Cécile just before she departed Japan to begin the next stage of her life and career... Cécile spent the better part of 9 years with us here in Inuyama City at Kyoto University's Primate Research Institu...

Send us Fan Mail Our guest in this installment of The PrimateCast and Conservation Voices is Dr. Anne Laudisoit , senior scientist at EcoHealth Alliance in New York City, who visited us at the Primate Research Institute last month between two field trips in eastern DRCongo. Plague, monkeypox and more In the podcast, Dr. Laudisoit starts by coming back to her disease biology background and how her...

Send us Fan Mail Our guest in this installment of The PrimateCast is Dr. Valeria Romano, who shares with us a series of interviews she conducted with conservation scientists during a meeting on the “Strategic Planning for the Conservation of Golden Lion Tamarins” run by the Save the Golden Lion Tamarin Association in 2018. Have a beer on the golden lion tamarin In the podcast, Dr. Romano introduce...

Send us Fan Mail The PrimateCast rolled out its mobile podcasting unit to cover the joint meetings of the International Primatological Society and American Society for Primatologists held between August 21-27, 2016. Last year's congress was hosted by the Lester E. Fisher Center for the Study and Conservation of Apes of Lincoln Park Zoo , and the conference was held at Navy Pier in Chicago, US...

Send us Fan Mail The PrimateCast rolled out its mobile podcasting unit to cover the joint meetings of the International Primatological Society and American Society for Primatologists held between August 21-27, 2016. Last year's congress was hosted by the Lester E. Fisher Center for the Study and Conservation of Apes of Lincoln Park Zoo , and the conference was held at Navy Pier in Chicago, US...

Send us Fan Mail The PrimateCast has rolled out its mobile podcasting unit once again, this time to cover the joint meetings of the International Primatological Society and American Society for Primatologists held between August 21-27, 2016. This year's congress was hosted by the Lester E. Fisher Center for the Study and Conservation of Apes of Lincoln Park Zoo , and the conference was held a...

Send us Fan Mail The PrimateCast has rolled out its mobile podcasting unit once again, this time to cover the joint meetings of the International Primatological Society and American Society for Primatologists held between August 21-27, 2016. T his year's congress was hosted by the Lester E. Fisher Center for the Study and Conservation of Apes of Lincoln Park Zoo , and the conference was held...

Send us Fan Mail IUCN World Conservation Congress, Honolulu, Hawaii - September, 2016. Conservation Voices correspondent Cecile Sarabian attended the screening of “ Blood Lions ”, a film portraying the lucrative and legal business of canned lion hunting in South Africa. The screening was followed by a discussion with Dr. Andrew Venter – Executive producer and CEO of Wildlands Conservation Trust ....

Send us Fan Mail Konichiwa! On September 24, 2016, a few dozen people gathered under a tent at Ueno Park in Tokyo for The Global March for Elephants and Rhinos – an event that took place in more than 130 cities around the world to raise awareness about poaching and the ivory/rhino horn trade. The march was organized on the first day of the CoP17 meetings in Johannesburg, where country leaders deci...

Send us Fan Mail The PrimateCast has rolled out its mobile podcasting unit once again, this time to cover the joint meetings of the International Primatological Society and American Society for Primatologists held between August 21-27, 2016. T his year's congress was hosted by the Lester E. Fisher Center for the Study and Conservation of Apes of Lincoln Park Zoo , and the conference was held...

Send us Fan Mail Aloha! From September 1-10 2016, the IUCN World Conservation Congress – the world’s largest conservation event – was held at the Hawaii Convention Center in Honolulu. The PrimateCast switched its IPS/ASP T-shirt with a Hawaiian shirt and lei to ride the waves of this huge conservationist gathering.    What’s happening at the IUCN WCC 2016? In this introductory podcast, we showcase...

Send us Fan Mail The PrimateCast has rolled out its mobile podcasting unit once again, this time to cover the joint meetings of the International Primatological Society and American Society for Primatologists held between August 21-27, 2016. T his year's congress was hosted by the Lester E. Fisher Center for the Study and Conservation of Apes of Lincoln Park Zoo , and the conference was held...

Send us Fan Mail Have you ever wondered whether tortoises yawn contagiously? Or what reptile memory might be like? Or even what impact reptile cognition may have on ecosystem processes? No? Well, Dr. Anna Wilkinson has, and she shares her thoughts with us on this episode of The PrimateCast . A-MAZE-ing Moses… In the interview, Dr. Wilkinson talks about how her interest in studying reptile cognitio...

Send us Fan Mail Our guest in this installment of The PrimateCast is Dr. Anna Nekaris, the world's foremost authority on one of the world's least known primates: the slow loris, or as she likes to call it, the Little Fireface . " A venomous primate, that's ridiculous" In the interview, Dr. Nekaris talks about how she seeks to understand why a primate has evolved venom, pla...