Send us a text An Earth Day special with a visiting high school intern The PrimateCast had a rare opportunity this week to enlist a 16 year old high school student intern to produce a podcast of her very own. We are now proud to present to you Nina's Passion , a rough guide to finding your passion. Nina Negi on finding her passion Nina writes, " I couldn’t believe it when Andrew MacIntosh, Associate Professor of the Kyoto University Primate Research Institute, answered my email. He told me that ...
Apr 22, 2015•43 min•Ep. 35
Send us a text The third edition of our SCCS coverage from around the world From March 24-26, 2015, the 16th edition of the Student Conference on Conservation Science (SCCS) Cambridge, was hosted by the Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge. Since the very first conference held in 2000, this student-based conference has become a model to be replicated in other parts of the world (see The PrimateCast's coverage of SCCS Bangalore and SCCS Brisbane o the podcast website). If you are a stud...
Apr 21, 2015•40 min•Ep. 34
Send us a text By Cecile Sarabian Conkouati-douli National Park, Republic of the Congo – Summer 2010. I was volunteering with HELP Congo , a program rescuing and reintroducing chimpanzees into the wild - “ The only sanctuary in Africa that has no fences ”. Repeatedly during my stay, I heard the name of“Naf”(for Naftali). He was apparently a previous camp manager who had contributed a lot to the work of the NGO. When we wanted to release chimpanzees, go to Naf, when we wanted to monitor wild chim...
Mar 03, 2015•33 min•Ep. 33
Send us a text In the cold Winter, The PrimateCast journeyed to warm up in Australia and to cover the second Student Conference on Conservation Science (SCCS) Australia. SCCS Australia was hosted by the University of Queensland in Brisbane between January 19 and 29, 2015. If you've ever wondered what Conservation Science looks like in Papua New Guinea, Australia, China, or Columbia, read on. The PrimateCast was at SCCS Australia 2015 These conferences are designed for young conservation scientis...
Feb 18, 2015•1 hr 15 min•Ep. 32
Send us a text Join us on The PrimateCast as we cover the 5th Student Conference on Conservation Science (SCCS) Bangalore – India. The PrimateCast crossed a new border by rolling out its mobile podcasting unit to cover the meetings of the SCCS held between September 25-28, 2014, at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India. This year’s conference was a great success and gathered hundreds of the best conservation researchers of Africa and Asia. So, enjoy! The PrimateCast was at SCCS Banga...
Oct 18, 2014•1 hr 12 min•Ep. 31
Send us a text Join us on The PrimateCast as we cover the 25th Congress of the International Primatological Society. The PrimateCast rolled out its mobile podcasting unit once again to cover the meetings of the International Primatological Society held between August 11-16, 2014. The theme of this year's congress , which was held at the Melia Hotel in Hanoi, Vietnam, was ' meeting the challenges of conserving primate diversity '. The PrimateCast On Location at IPS 2014 For anyone seeking more in...
Oct 07, 2014•1 hr 2 min•Ep. 30
Send us a text Join us on The PrimateCast as we cover the 25th Congress of the International Primatological Society. The PrimateCast rolled out its mobile podcasting unit once again to cover the meetings of the International Primatological Society held between August 11-16, 2014. The theme of this year's congress , which was held at the Melia Hotel in Hanoi, Vietnam, was ' meeting the challenges of conserving primate diversity '. The PrimateCast On Location at IPS 2014 For anyone seeking more in...
Sep 22, 2014•57 min•Ep. 29
Send us a text Join us on The PrimateCast as we cover the 25th Congress of the International Primatological Society. The PrimateCast rolled out its mobile podcasting unit once again to cover the meetings of the International Primatological Society held between August 11-16, 2014. The theme of this year's congress , which was held at the Melia Hotel in Hanoi, Vietnam, was ' meeting the challenges of conserving primate diversity '. The PrimateCast On Location at IPS 2014 In the third installment o...
Sep 05, 2014•50 min•Ep. 28
Send us a text The PrimateCast rolled out its mobile podcasting unit once again to cover the meetings of the International Primatological Society held between August 11-16, 2014. The theme of this year's congress , which was held at the Melia Hotel in Hanoi, Vietnam, was ' meeting the challenges of conserving primate diversity '. The PrimateCast On Location at IPS 2014 In the first installment of this five-part podcast series, we introduced some of the graduate students from PRI who helped inter...
Sep 04, 2014•26 min•Ep. 27
Send us a text Join us on The PrimateCast as we cover the 25th Congress of the International Primatological Society. The PrimateCast rolled out its mobile podcasting unit once again to cover the meetings of the International Primatological Society held between August 11-16, 2014. The theme of this year's congress , which was held at the Melia Hotel in Hanoi, Vietnam, was ' meeting the challenges of conserving primate diversity '. Unlike the case at the IPS congress two years ago in Cancun, Mexic...
Aug 28, 2014•47 min•Ep. 26
Send us a text Join us on The PrimateCast as we cover the 74th annual congress of the Japan Society for Animal Psychology. The PrimateCast rolled out its mobile podcasting unit once again to cover the annual meetings of the Japan Society for Animal Psychology between July 19-21, 2014. The society's aims are to support a better understanding of human nature, particularly in the realm of cognition, through the lens of the animal mind; in other words, its members study the cognitive capacities of n...
Aug 06, 2014•24 min•Ep. 25
Send us a text Join us on The PrimateCast as we cover the 74th annual congress of the Japan Society for Animal Psychology. The PrimateCast rolled out its mobile podcasting unit once again to cover the annual meetings of the Japan Society for Animal Psychology between July 19-21, 2014. The society's aims are to support a better understanding of human nature, particularly in the realm of cognition, through the lens of the animal mind; in other words, its members study the cognitive capacities of n...
Aug 06, 2014•13 min•Ep. 24
Send us a text Join us on The PrimateCast as we cover the 74th annual congress of the Japan Society for Animal Psychology. The PrimateCast rolled out its mobile podcasting unit once again to cover the annual meetings of the Japan Society for Animal Psychology between July 19-21, 2014. The society's aims are to support a better understanding of human nature, particularly in the realm of cognition, through the lens of the animal mind; in other words, its members study the cognitive capacities of n...
Aug 06, 2014•37 min•Ep. 23
Send us a text Join us on The PrimateCast as we cover the 74th annual congress of the Japan Society for Animal Psychology. The PrimateCast rolled out its mobile podcasting unit once again to cover the annual meetings of the Japan Society for Animal Psychology between July 19-21, 2014. The society's aims are to support a better understanding of human nature, particularly in the realm of cognition, through the lens of the animal mind; in other words, its members study the cognitive capacities of n...
Aug 06, 2014•32 min•Ep. 22
Send us a text Join us on The PrimateCast as we cover the 74th annual congress of the Japan Society for Animal Psychology. The PrimateCast rolled out its mobile podcasting unit once again to cover the annual meetings of the Japan Society for Animal Psychology between July 19-21, 2014. The society's aims are to support a better understanding of human nature, particularly in the realm of cognition, through the lens of the animal mind; in other words, its members study the cognitive capacities of n...
Aug 06, 2014•50 min•Ep. 21
Send us a text 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 now left Japan to assume a position in the United States (more on that in an upcoming podcast). To kick things off in...
Jul 16, 2014•21 min•Ep. 20
Send us a text 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 selections. Student choices could be broadly broken down into conservation- and research-related interview segmen...
Oct 25, 2013•31 min•Ep. 19
Send us a text 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 selections. Student choices could be broadly broken down into conservation- and research-related interview segmen...
Oct 23, 2013•31 min•Ep. 18
Send us a text 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 Research Institute sponsored financially by the Asia-Africa Platform of the Japan Society for the Promo...
Jul 02, 2013•22 min•Ep. 17
Send us a text 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 based at such centers has benefited her field-based work, Dr. Jones-Engel discusses her research into bi-d...
Jun 08, 2013•32 min•Ep. 16
Send us a text 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's involvement in the conservation of chimpanzees in Africa. In this podcast, you'll hear Dr. Ross discuss anima...
Jun 01, 2013•28 min•Ep. 15
Send us a text 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 Africa, from his efforts to curb the continued demand for forest elephant ivory in Japan, through his expe...
May 26, 2013•23 min•Ep. 14
Send us a text 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, with chimpanzees of the Goualogo Triangle, Republic of Congo. Topics of this podcast include the use of t...
May 14, 2013•18 min•Ep. 13
Send us a text 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 her exceptional work with cognition, social information use and cultural transmission of knowledge in ...
Mar 27, 2013•18 min•Ep. 12
Send us a text 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 Primate Research Center . We chatted with Dr. Call about the extensive work on comparative cognition that h...
Jan 18, 2013•19 min•Ep. 11
Send us a text 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 with Dr. McGrew about his long career studying chimpanzees across Africa, depth versus breadth in scienti...
Dec 21, 2012•16 min•Ep. 10
Send us a text 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 the first installment of this podcast series in which we chatted with Dr. Frans de Waal . Dr. de Waal i...
Dec 13, 2012•26 min•Ep. 9
Send us a text 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 naturalists. Tune in and learn about Dr. Goodall's visit to Japan, her historical ties to Japanese pri...
Nov 19, 2012•17 min•Ep. 8
Send us a text 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 biostatistics with a focus on the general linear model and general issues in analyzing behavioral and ecologica...
Nov 16, 2012•22 min•Ep. 7
Send us a text 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 interviews conducted on location with 7 researchers in various fields of study, from genetics and behavioral e...
Sep 02, 2012•1 hr 15 min•Ep. 6
