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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
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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
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Osamu Sakura
Ph.D. |
Interfaculty Initiative
in Infromation Studies, University of Tokyo
(Japan) |
Party composition,
tool-using behavior
|
1987
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Takao Fushimi
Ph.D. |
Kitasato University (Japan) |
Field
experiment of stone-tool use
|
1989
|
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| Hisato Ohno |
Railway Technical Research
Institute (Japan) |
Behavioral observation
|
1989
|
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| Miho Nakamura |
ANC Productions Inc.(Japan)
|
Video recording |
1990
|
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| Kiyonori Kumazaki |
Primate Research Institute
Kyoto University (Japan) |
Behavioral
observation, application to enrichment in captivity
|
1991
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| Nobukatsu Miwa |
Primate Research Institute
Kyoto University (Japan) |
Behavioral
observation, application to enrichment in captivity
|
1991
|
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| Naoto Yokota |
Oita Junior College
(Japan) |
Topography and vegetation
of Bossou
|
1992
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Rikako Tonooka
Ph.D. |
Tokai Women's University
(Japan) |
Leaf-folding for drinking
water by wild chimpanzees.
|
1992
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Noriko Inoue-Nakamura
Ph.D. |
Showa Women's University
(Japan) |
Field
experiment of stone-tool use
|
1992
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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
|
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Tatyana Humle
Ph.D. |
Wildlife Research Center,
Kyoto University
(Japan)
|
Development, tool
use, culture, laterality and efficiency in behavior. Conservation issues related to human-wildlife conflict.
|
1995
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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
|
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Satoshi Hirata
Ph.D. |
Great Ape Research Institute
Hayashibara Biochemical Laboratories, Inc., Japan
|
Tool use, Social interaction
|
1996
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Masako Myowa-Yamakoshi
Ph.D. |
University of Shiga
Prefecture (Japan) |
Playing behavior,
mother-infant interaction
|
1996
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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
|
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Naruki Morimura Ph.D. |
Wildlife Research Center Kyoto University (Japan) |
Animal Welfare: Cognition and environemntal enrichement
|
1998
|
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Tomomi Ochiai
Ph.D. |
Primate Research Institute
Kyoto University (Japan) |
Behavioral time budget
|
1998
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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
|
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Makoto Shimada
Ph.D. |
Japan Biological Information
Research Center
|
Gene genealogy and
gene flow
|
1999
|
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Sachiko Hayakawa
Ph.D. |
Primate Research Institute
Kyoto University (Japan) |
Genetic
analysis in Bossou
|
1999
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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
|
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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
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Claudia Sousa
Ph.D. |
New University of Lisbon
(Portugal) |
Tool-use and social
transmission.
Chimpanzee vocal communication
|
2000
|
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| 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
|
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Marie Huynen
Ph.D.
|
University of Liège
(Belgium)
|
Ecology and conservation
|
2001
|
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Misato Hayashi
Ph.D. |
Primate Research Institute
Kyoto University (Japan) |
Field experiment of
stone-tool use
|
2002
|
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Michio Nakamura
Ph.D. |
Wildlife Research Center Kyoto University (Japan) |
Behavioral Comparison
between Bossou and Mahale
|
2002
|
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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
|
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Laura Martinez
M.Sc.
|
Primate Research Institute
Kyoto University (Japan) |
Chimpanzees vocal identity recognition |
2002
|
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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
|
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Linda Marchant
Ph.D. |
Department of Anthropology, Miami University
(USA) |
Biological Anthropology,
Behavioral Primatology, Hominid Evolution,
African Apes
|
2004
|
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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
|
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Yuu Mizuno
Ph.D. |
Cyubu Gakuin University(Japan) |
Development of social
behaviors in interactions of mother-infant chimpanzees: smiling,
laughing, and crying.
|
2004
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Akino Kato-Watanabe
Veterinarian |
Primate Research Institute
Kyoto University (Japan) |
Veterinary medicine
|
2004
|
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Kim Hockings
Ph.D. |
New University of Lisbon
(Portugal)
|
Importance of cultivars
in the chimpanzees' diets and behavioural adaptations to crop-raiding
and road-crossing
|
2004
|
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Kazunari Ushida
Ph.D. |
Kyoto Prefectural Uni. (Japan) |
Intestinal
microbiology of wild chimpanzees
|
2004
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Shinya Yamamoto
Ph.D. |
Tokyo University (Japan) |
Tool use, Ant-fishing,
Social interaction
|
2004
|
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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
|
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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
|
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Asami Kabasawa
Ph.D. |
Graduate School of Asian African Area
Studies,
Kyoto University (Japan)
|
Population census
of the Bossou village
|
2004
|
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Gentaro Uenishi
M.Sc
|
Kyoto Prefectural Uni. (Japan) |
Intestinal
microbiology of wild chimpanzees
|
2005
|
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| Ryutaro Goto |
Kyoto University(Japan) |
Plant-Insect interaction,
mainly in Phyllanthaceae and Balanophoraceae.
|
2005
|
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| 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) |
Hexatube technical expert-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
|
|
Michiko Fujisawa
Doctor of Medicine |
Wildlife Research Center Kyoto University
(Japan)
|
Health and longevity: specialized in geriatrics, aging and dementia
|
2008
|
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Kozo Matsubayashi
Professor, Doctor of Medicine |
Research Institute of South-East Asia Kyoto University
(Japan)
|
Health and medical studies
|
2008
|
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Masahiro Nakatsuka
Doctor of Medicine, Ph.D. Candidate |
School of Medicine Kyoto University
(Japan)
|
Health and medical studies
|
2008
|
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Yoriko Kasahara
Nurse, Ph.D. Candidate |
School of Medicine Kyoto University
(Japan)
|
Health and medical studies
|
2008
|
|
Christopher Martin
M.Sc. |
Primate Research Institute Kyoto University
(Japan)
|
Chimpanzee Cognition
|
2008
|
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Mari Hirosawa
Graduate student |
Primate Research Institute Kyoto University
(Japan)
|
Chimpanzee Cognition
|
2008
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