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Yukimaru Sugiyama Ph.D.

Topic of Research: Population dynamics and life history, social organization, cultural behavior
Institutional Affiliation: Primate Research Institute, Kyoto University (Japan)

Tetsuro Matsuzawa Ph.D.

Topic of Research: Tool use, field experiment of stone-tool use,
Institutional Affiliation: Primate Research Institute Kyoto University (Japan)

Osamu Sakura Ph.D.

Topic of Research: Party composition, tool-using behavior
Institutional Affiliation: Interfaculty Initiative in Infromation Studies, University of Tokyo(Japan)

Takao Fushimi Ph.D.

Topic of Research: Field experiment of stone-tool use
Institutional Affiliation: Kitasato University (Japan)

Hisato Ohno

Topic of Research: Behavioral observation
Institutional Affiliation: Railway Technical Research Institute (Japan)

Miho Nakamura

Topic of Research: Video recording
Institutional Affiliation: ANC Productions Inc.(Japan)

Kiyonori Kumazaki

Topic of Research: Behavioral observation, application to enrichment in captivity
Institutional Affiliation: Primate Research Institute, Kyoto University (Japan)

Nobukatsu Miwa

Topic of Research: Behavioral observation, application to enrichment in captivity
Institutional Affiliation: Primate Research Institute, Kyoto University (Japan)

Naoto Yokota

Topic of Research: Topography and vegetation of Bossou
Institutional Affiliation: Oita Junior College (Japan)

Rikako Tonooka Ph.D.

Topic of Research: Leaf-folding for drinking water by wild chimpanzees.
Institutional Affiliation: Tokai Women's University (Japan)

Noriko Inoue-Nakamura Ph.D.

Topic of Research: Field experiment of stone-tool use
Institutional Affiliation: Showa Women's University (Japan)

Gen Yamakoshi Ph.D.

Topic of Research: Food availability and its effect on behavior, history of human-chimpanzee interaction
Institutional Affiliation: Graduate School of Asian African Area Studies, Kyoto University (Japan)

Tatyana Humle Ph.D.

Topic of Research: Development, tool use, culture, laterality and efficiency in behavior. Conservation issues related to human-wildlife conflict.
Institutional Affiliation: Kent University (UK)

Hiroyuki Takemoto Ph.D.

Topic of Research: Interactions between Bossou forest and feeding ecology of chimpanzees. Institutional Affiliation: Primate Research Institute, Kyoto University (Japan)

Akiko Uchida

Topic of Research: Urinary hormone
Institutional Affiliation: Waseda University (Japan)

Satoshi Hirata Ph.D.

Topic of Research: Tool use, Social interaction
Institutional Affiliation: Wildlife Research Center, Kyoto University (Japan)

Masako Myowa-Yamakoshi Ph.D.

Topic of Research: Playing behavior, mother-infant interaction
Institutional Affiliation: Graduate School of Education, Kyoto University (Japan)

Michael A. Huffman Ph.D.

Topic of Research: Access availability of medicinal plants available to chimpanzees, ascertain the presence of Oesophagostomum in the Bossou group
Institutional Affiliation: Primate Research Institute, Kyoto University (Japan)

Naruki Morimura Ph.D.

Topic of Research: Animal Welfare: Cognition and environemntal enrichement
Institutional Affiliation: Wildlife Research Center, Kyoto University (Japan)

Tomomi Ochiai-Ohira

Topic of Research: Behavioral time budget
Institutional Affiliation: Primate Research Institute, Kyoto University (Japan)

Maura Lucia Celli Ph.D.

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Dora Biro Ph.D.

Topic of Research: Individual cognitive and social learning aspects of tool use (nut-cracking and leaf-folding)
Institutional Affiliation: Department of Zoology, University of Oxford

Makoto Shimada Ph.D.

Topic of Research: Gene genealogy and gene flow
Institutional Affiliation: Japan Biological Information Research Center

Sachiko Hayakawa Ph.D.

Topic of Research: Genetic analysis in Bossou
Institutional Affiliation: Primate Research Institute, Kyoto University (Japan)

Shiho Fujita Ph.D.

Topic of Research: Comparison in reproductive potential of female chimpanzees between wild populations; Health monitoring of chimpanzees for their conservation
Institutional Affiliation: Yamaguchi University (Japan)

Gaku Ohashi M.Sc

Topic of Research: Fission-Fusion of chimpanzees, Mating and Courtship in chimpanzees, Distribution and Cultural Variation of chimpanzees on Nimba county, Liberia
Institutional Affiliation: Japan Monkey Centre

Claudia Sousa Ph.D.

Topic of Research: Tool-use and social transmission. Chimpanzee vocal communication
Institutional Affiliation: New University of Lisbon (Portugal)

Polly Walker Ph.D.

Topic of Research: Behavioral observation
Institutional Affiliation: University of Oxford (UK)

Chiemi Hisakawa-Kadota

Topic of Research: Behavioral observation, application to enrichment in captivity
Institutional Affiliation: Wanpark Kochi Animal Land (Japan)

Marie-Claude Huynen Ph.D.

Topic of Research: Ecology and conservation
Institutional Affiliation: University of Liège (Belgium)

Misato Hayashi Ph.D.

Topic of Research: Field experiment of stone-tool use
Institutional Affiliation: Primate Research Institute, Kyoto University (Japan)

Michio Nakamura Ph.D.

Topic of Research: Behavioral Comparison between Bossou and Mahale
Institutional Affiliation: Wildlife Research Center, Kyoto University (Japan)

Nicolas Granier M.Sc.

Topic of Research: Ecology and Conservation of Chimpanzees in N'Zo- Gouéla II area of Mont Nimba, Guinea-Ivory Coast
Institutional Affiliation: University of Liège (Belgium)

MARTINEZ Laura Ph.D.

Topic of Research: Chimpanzees vocal identity recognition
Institutional Affiliation: Ewha Womans Univ, Korea

Kathelijne Koops M.Sc.

Topic of Research: Seringbara chimpanzees, elementary technology of foraging and shelter (e.g. ground nesting), habituation
Institutional Affiliation: Dept. of Biological Anthroology & Leverhulme Centre for Human Evolutionary Studies (LCHES), Cambridge University

Linda Marchant

Topic of Research: Biological Anthropology, Behavioral Primatology, Hominid Evolution, African Apes
Institutional Affiliation: Department of Anthropology, Miami University

William C. McGrew Ph.D.

Topic of Research: Primate socio-ecology, evolution of material culture, chimpanzee technology, laterality of function, ape rehabilitation
Institutional Affiliation: Department of Biological Anthropology, Cambridge University (UK)

Yuu Mizuno Ph.D.

Topic of Research: Development of social behaviors in interactions of mother-infant chimpanzees: smiling, laughing, and crying.
Institutional Affiliation: Cyubu Gakuin University(Japan)

Akino Kato-Watanabe

Topic of Research: Veterinary medicine
Institutional Affiliation: Primate Research Institute, Kyoto University (Japan)

Kimberley Hockings M.Sc.

Topic of Research: Importance of cultivars in the chimpanzees' diets and behavioural adaptations to crop-raiding and road-crossing
Institutional Affiliation: New University of Lisbon (Portugal)

Kazunari Ushida Ph.D.

Topic of Research: Intestinal microbiology of wild chimpanzees
Institutional Affiliation: Kyoto Prefectural University (Japan)

Shinya Yamamoto Ph.D.

Topic of Research: Tool use, Ant-fishing, Social interaction
Institutional Affiliation: Program-Specific Assistant Professor, Primate Research Institute, Kyoto University

Shigeo Kobayashi Ph.D.

Topic of Research: Effects of fuel wood consumption and water utilization on the forest
Institutional Affiliation: Graduate School of Asian African Area Studies, Kyoto University (Japan)

Miho Ito Master student

Topic of Research: Ecological Anthropology, Utilization of Raphia palm and its management by local people
Institutional Affiliation: Graduate School of Asian African Area Studies, Kyoto University (Japan)

Asami Kabasawa M.Sc

Topic of Research: Population census of the Bossou village
Institutional Affiliation: Graduate School of Asian African Area Studies, Kyoto University (Japan)

Gentaro Uenishi

Topic of Research: Intestinal microbiology of wild chimpanzees
Institutional Affiliation: Kyoto Prefectural University (Japan)

Ryutaro Goto

Topic of Research: Plant-Insect interaction, mainly in Phyllanthaceae and Balanophoraceae.
Institutional Affiliation: Kyoto University(Japan)

Etsuko Nogami

Topic of Research: Behavioral observation, application to enrichment in captivity,
Institutional Affiliation: Kumamoto Sanctuary, WRC, Kyoto University (Japan)

Ryo Hasegawa

Topic of Research: Hexatube technical expert-Green Corridor Project
Institutional Affiliation: Phytoculture Control Co., Ltd. (Japan)

Susana Carvalho

Topic of Research: Applying the "Chaine Operatoire" concept to "nut-cracking"- studying Bossou and Diecké chimpanzees
Institutional Affiliation: University of Oxford (UK)

Michiko Fujisawa Doctor of Medicine

Topic of Research: Health and longevity: specialized in geriatrics, aging and dementia
Institutional Affiliation: Wildlife Research Center, Kyoto University (Japan)

Kozo Matsubayashi Professor, Doctor of Medicine

Topic of Research: Health and medical studies
Institutional Affiliation: Research Institute of South-East Asia
Kyoto University (Japan)

Masahiro Nakatsuka Doctor of Medicine, Ph.D. Candidate

Topic of Research: Health and medical studies
Institutional Affiliation: School of Medicine, Kyoto University (Japan)

Yoriko Kasahara Nurse, Ph.D. Candidate