The PrimateCast

Send us Fan Mail Hello everyone and welcome back to The PrimateCast ! We're back at it with another interview installment to kick off, in rather tardy fashion, 2014... To get things back on track, we've enlisted the help of CICASP graduate student Sofi Bernstein (see the announcement here ), who's taken on a summer internship with us following the departure of Chris Martin, who has...

Send us Fan Mail In this installment of The PrimateCast, we asked students of Kyoto University's Primate Research Institute to select their favorite moments from the first year and a half plus of the podcast. We then interviewed each student, asking them to tell us about their research interests, how they got into the field of primate research and why they made their respective podcast select...

Send us Fan Mail In this installment of The PrimateCast, we asked students of Kyoto University's Primate Research Institute to select their favorite moments from the first year and a half plus of the podcast. We then interviewed each student, asking them to tell us about their research interests, how they got into the field of primate research and why they made their respective podcast select...

Send us Fan Mail In November of 2012, we sat down with Dr. Janet Nackoney, Research Assistant Professor in the Department of Geographical Sciences at the University of Maryland . Check out the interview on this installment of The PrimateCast. During October and November 2012, Dr. Takeshi Furuichi held a workshop for African primate researchers and conservationists at the Kyoto University Primate R...

Send us Fan Mail In November of 2012, we sat down with Dr. Lisa Jones-Engel, Senior Research Scientist at the Washington National Primate Research Center and lecturer at the University of Washington. Dr. Jones-Engel is a primatologist who has worked for the better part of her career at bio-medical research centers in the United States. In the interview, in addition to speaking about how being base...

Send us Fan Mail On May 19th, 2013, we spoke with Dr. Steve Ross, Director of the Lester E. Fisher Center for the Study and Conservation of Apes at the Regenstein Center for African Apes of Chicago's Lincoln Park Zoo . We chatted with Dr. Ross about his work enriching the lives of chimpanzees in the USA through Lincoln Park Zoo's innovative and integrative programs, as well as his center...

Send us Fan Mail In this installment of The PrimateCast, Andrew and special guest host Dr. David Hill of CICASP sit down with Dr. Tomoaki Nishihara, Senior Technical Adviser of Operations and Protection with the Wildlife Conservation Society in Congo-Brazzaville. This interview was conducted in April 2012. We chatted with Dr. Nishihara about his work in the conservation of wildlife in Central Afri...

Send us Fan Mail In the fifth installment of our podcast series from the conference on the Evolutionary Origins of the Human Mind at the International Institute for Advanced Studies (IIAS), we spoke with Dr. Crickette Sanz, Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology at Washington University in St. Louis . We chatted with Dr. Sanz about her work, both in research and in conservation, wit...

Send us Fan Mail In the fourth installment of our podcast series from the conference on the Evolutionary Origins of the Human Mind at the International Institute for Advanced Studies ( IIAS ), we spoke with Dr. Dora Biro, Royal Society University Research Fellow, and soon to become tenured member of faculty, in the Department of Zoology at the University of Oxford . We chatted with Dr. Biro about...

Send us Fan Mail In the third installment of our podcast series from the conference on the Evolutionary Origins of the Human Mind at the International Institute for Advanced Studies ( IIAS ), we spoke with Dr. Josep Call, Senior Scientist at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in the Department of Developmental and Comparative Psychology and Director of the Wolfgang Köhler Prima...

Send us Fan Mail In the second installment of our podcast series from the conference on the Evolutionary Origins of the Human Mind at the International Institute for Advanced Studies (IIAS) , we spoke with Dr. William McGrew, Emeritus Professor of Evolutionary Primatology in the Division of Biological Anthropology, Department of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Cambridge. We chatted wit...

Send us Fan Mail Between 3-6 December 2012, Chris and Andrew took their mobile podcast unit on the road to Kyoto for a conference at the International Institute for Advanced Studies ( IIAS ) on the Evolutionary Origins of the Human Mind . During the conference, we were able to sit down with five prominent primate scientists who were invited to the conference to speak about their work. This marks t...

Send us Fan Mail We interview Dr. Jane Goodall, world renowned naturalist, conservationist, activist, humanist and much, much more. In the interview, we hear a funny story about her run-ins with Japanese primatologists in Africa, but the bulk of the interview is about her journey with chimpanzees and turning into an activist, with words of wisdom and encouragement for budding conservationists and...

Send us Fan Mail In this installment of The PrimateCast, Andrew and Chris sit down with Dr. Roger Mundry , biostatistician in the Department of Primatology and the Department of Developmental and Comparative Psychology at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology . CICASP had invited Dr. Mundry to the Primate Research Institute in March, 2012, to give a week-long workshop in biostatis...

Send us Fan Mail In this installment of The PrimateCast, Chris and Andrew report from the 24th Congress of the International Primatological Society which was held between August 12th and 17th, 2012, in Cancun, Mexico. The podcast begins with a brief recap of some of our own experiences at the congress, followed by a discussion of the research that we presented.  We then provide a series of intervi...

Send us Fan Mail In this installment of The PrimateCast, Andrew and Chris are joined by Dr. Cyril Grueter of the University of Western Australia. In February and March of 2012, Dr. Cyril Grueter visited PRI to meet with colleagues to discuss the various projects in which he is involved, including the ecology of temperate primates and the evolution of multi-level societies.  We took the opportunity...

Send us Fan Mail The PrimateCast continues to roll on into the summer as Chris and Andrew chat in this installment with Dr. Heidi Lyn of the University of Southern Mississipi.  Topics covered include: the language capabilities of cetaceans and primates the logistics of experimentation with diverse groups of animals Heidi Lyn's plans for groundbreaking future research in comparative cognition...

Send us Fan Mail After a temporary hiatus during Chris' expedition to West Africa, The PrimateCast is back and looking forward to a great summer packed with interviews that we've racked up over the past months. In today's installment, Andrew and Chris speak to Dr. Laurence Anthony, professor in the Center for English Language Education in Science and Engineering (CELESE) at Waseda U...

Send us Fan Mail In this edition of The PrimateCast, we welcome Drs. Ikuma Adachi, Fred Bercovitch, and David Hill to the studio to discuss the CICASP program from top to bottom. In addition to discussing the program itself, we tackle issues surrounding adjusting to life in Japan and conducting research both at PRI and abroad at the many field sites run by researchers at the PRI.  Our guests also...

Send us Fan Mail In the first interview installment of The PrimateCast, former PRI director and current director of CICASP Dr. Tetsuro Matsuzawa discusses the history of primatology in Japan, from its humble beginnings on fabled Koshima Islet, through the development and continued progress of Kyoto University's Primate Research Institute and his own research on chimpanzee cognition. The Prima...