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Name
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Institutional Affiliation
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Topic of Research
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First visit to Bossou
|
Picture
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Yukimaru Sugiyama
Ph.D.
Emeritus Professor,
Founder of Bossou site
|
Primate Research Institute
Kyoto University (Japan)
|
Population dynamics and life history,
social organization, cultural behavior
|
1975
|
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Tetsuro Matsuzawa Ph.D.
Director of Bossou-Nimba site |
Primate Research Institute
Kyoto University (Japan) |
Tool use,
field experiment of stone-tool use,
|
1986
|
|
Osamu Sakura
Ph.D. |
Interfaculty Initiative
in Infromation Studies, University of Tokyo
(Japan) |
Party composition,
tool-using behavior
|
1987
|
|
Takao Fushimi
Ph.D. |
Kitasato University (Japan) |
Field
experiment of stone-tool use
|
1989
|
|
| Hisato Ohno |
Railway Technical Research
Institute (Japan) |
Behavioral observation
|
1989
|
|
| Miho Nakamura |
ANC Productions Inc.(Japan)
|
Video recording |
1990
|
|
| Kiyonori Kumazaki |
Primate Research Institute
Kyoto University (Japan) |
Behavioral
observation, application to enrichment in captivity
|
1991
|
|
| Nobukatsu Miwa |
Primate Research Institute
Kyoto University (Japan) |
Behavioral
observation, application to enrichment in captivity
|
1991
|
|
| Naoto Yokota |
Oita Junior College
(Japan) |
Topography and vegetation
of Bossou
|
1992
|
|
Rikako Tonooka
Ph.D. |
Tokai Women's University
(Japan) |
Leaf-folding for drinking
water by wild chimpanzees.
|
1992
|
|
Noriko Inoue-Nakamura
Ph.D. |
Showa Women's University
(Japan) |
Field
experiment of stone-tool use
|
1992
|
|
Gen Yamakoshi
Ph.D. |
Graduate School of Asian African Area
Studies,
Kyoto University (Japan)
|
Food availability
and its effect on behavior, history of human-chimpanzee interaction
|
1992
|
|
Tatyana Humle
Ph.D. |
University of Wisconsin,
Madison
(USA)
|
Development of tool
use and the interaction between the environment and culture
|
1995
|
|
Hiroyuki Takemoto
Ph.D. |
Primate Research Institute
Kyoto University (Japan) |
Interactions between
Bossou forest and feeding ecology of chimpanzees.
|
1995
|
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| Akiko Uchida |
Waseda University (Japan) |
Urinary hormone
|
1996
|
|
Satoshi Hirata
Ph.D. |
Great Ape Research Institute
Hayashibara Biochemical Laboratories, Inc., Japan
|
Tool use, Social interaction
|
1996
|
|
Masako Myowa-Yamakoshi
Ph.D. |
University of Shiga
Prefecture (Japan) |
Playing behavior,
mother-infant interaction
|
1996
|
|
Michael A. Huffman
Ph.D. |
Primate Research Institute
Kyoto University (Japan) |
Access availability
of medicinal plants available to chimpanzees, ascertain the presence
of Oesophagostomum in the Bossou group
|
1997
|
|
| Naruki Morimura |
Great Ape Research
Institute
Hayashibara Biochemical Laboratories, Inc., Japan |
Daily life and learning
of wild chimpanzees for application to captive care.
|
1998
|
|
Tomomi Ochiai
M.Sc |
Primate Research Institute
Kyoto University (Japan) |
Behavioral time budget
|
1998
|
|
Maura Lucia Celli
Ph.D. |
|
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1998
|
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Dora Biro
Ph.D. |
University of Oxford
(UK)
|
Individual cognitive and social learning
aspects of tool use (nut-cracking and leaf-folding)
|
1998
|
|
Makoto Shimada
Ph.D. |
Japan Biological Information
Research Center
|
Gene genealogy and
gene flow
|
1999
|
|
Sachiko Hayakawa
Ph.D. |
Primate Research Institute
Kyoto University (Japan) |
Genetic
analysis in Bossou
|
1999
|
|
Shiho Fujita
Ph.D. |
Yamaguchi University
(Japan) |
Comparison in reproductive potential
of female chimpanzees between wild populations; Health monitoring
of chimpanzees for their conservation
|
1999
|
|
Gaku Ohashi
M.Sc |
Primate Research Institute
Kyoto University (Japan) |
Fission-Fusion of
chimpanzees, Mating and Courtship in chimpanzees, Distribution and
Cultural Variation of chimpanzees on Nimba county, Liberia
|
1999
|
|
Claudia Sousa
Ph.D. |
New University of Lisbon
(Portugal) |
Tool-use and social
transmission.
Chimpanzee vocal communication
|
2000
|
|
| Polly Walker |
University of Oxford (UK) |
Behavioral
observation
|
2000
|
|
| Chiemi Hisakawa-Kadota |
Wanpark Kochi Animal
Land (Japan) |
Behavioral
observation, application to enrichment in captivity
|
2001
|
|
|
Marie Huynen
Ph.D.
|
University of Liège
(Belgium)
|
Ecology and conservation
|
2001
|
|
Misato Hayashi
M.Sc. |
Primate Research Institute
Kyoto University (Japan) |
Field experiment of
stone-tool use
|
2002
|
|
Michio Nakamura
Ph.D. |
Kyoto University (Japan) |
Behavioral Comparison
between Bossou and Mahale
|
2002
|
|
Nicolas Granier
M.Sc. |
University of Liège
(Belgium)
|
Ecology and Conservation
of Chimpanzees in N'Zo- Gouéla II area of Mont Nimba, Guinea-Ivory
Coast
|
2002
|
|
Laura Martinez
M.Sc.
|
Primate Research Institute
Kyoto University (Japan) |
Chimpanzees vocal identity recognition |
2002
|
|
Kathelijne Koops
M.Sc. |
Dept. of Biological Anthroology &
Leverhulme Centre for
Human Evolutionary Studies (LCHES)
Cambridge University
(UK)
|
Seringbara chimpanzees,
elementary technology of foraging and shelter (e.g. ground nesting),
habituation
|
2003
|
|
Linda Marchant
Ph.D. |
Department of Anthropology, Miami University
(USA) |
Biological Anthropology,
Behavioral Primatology, Hominid Evolution,
African Apes
|
2004
|
|
William McGrew
Ph.D. |
Dept. of Biological Anthroology &
Leverhulme Centre for Human
Evolutionary Studies (LCHES)
Cambridge University (UK)
|
Primate
socio-ecology, evolution of material culture, chimpanzee
technology, laterality of function, ape rehabilitation
|
2004
|
|
Yuu Mizuno
Ph.D. |
Cyubu Gakuin University(Japan) |
Development of social
behaviors in interactions of mother-infant chimpanzees: smiling,
laughing, and crying.
|
2004
|
|
Akino Kato-Watanabe
Veterinarian |
Primate Research Institute
Kyoto University (Japan) |
Veterinary medicine
|
2004
|
|
Kim Hockings
M.Sc. |
The University of Stirling
(UK)
|
Importance of cultivars
in the chimpanzees' diets and behavioural adaptations to crop-raiding
and road-crossing
|
2004
|
|
Kazunari Ushida
Ph.D. |
Kyoto Prefectural Uni. (Japan) |
Intestinal
microbiology of wild chimpanzees
|
2004
|
|
Shinya Yamamoto
M.Sc |
Primate Research Institute
Kyoto University (Japan) |
Tool use, Ant-fishing,
Social interaction
|
2004
|
|
Shigeo Kobayashi
Ph.D. |
Graduate School of Asian African Area
Studies,
Kyoto University (Japan) |
Effects of fuel wood
consumption and water utilization on the forest
|
2004
|
|
Miho Ito
Master student |
Graduate School of Asian African Area
Studies,
Kyoto University (Japan)
|
Ecological Anthropology
Utilization of Raphia palm and its management by local people
|
2004
|
|
Asami Kabasawa
M.Sc |
Graduate School of Asian African Area
Studies,
Kyoto University (Japan)
|
Population census
of the Bossou village
|
2004
|
|
Gentaro Uenishi
M.Sc
|
Kyoto Prefectural Uni. (Japan) |
Intestinal
microbiology of wild chimpanzees
|
2005
|
|
| Ryutaro Goto |
Kyoto University(Japan) |
Plant-Insect interaction,
mainly in Phyllanthaceae and Balanophoraceae.
|
2005
|
|
| Etsuko Nogami |
Primate Research Institute
Kyoto University (Japan) |
Behavioral
observation, application to enrichment in captivity, Web
master
|
2005
|
|
| Ryo Hasegawa |
Phytoculture Control Co., Ltd. (Japan) |
Setting of hexatubes
for green-corridor project
|
2005
|
|
Susana Carvalho
M.Sc. |
Coimbra University
(Portugal)
|
Applying the "Chaine
Operatoire" concept to "nut-cracking"- studying Bossou
and Diecké chimpanzees
|
2006
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