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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 Bangalore 2014

SCCS events are designed for young conservation scientists to help them gain experience, learn new ideas and make contacts that will be valuable for their future careers.

At SCCS Bangalore 2014, we chatted with 6 conservationists about their experience and work.

List of Interviews in part 1

• Introduction to SCCS Bangalore with Dr. Robin Vijayan [Research fellow] National Centre for Biological Sciences 
• Dr. Ananda Kumar [Scientist, PhD] Nature Conservation Foundation on human-elephant conflict
• Ms. Radika Kothari [MSc] on being the director of the Snow Leopard Conservancy India Trust 
• local communities in conservation of mountain gorillas and chimpanzees with Dr. Gladys Kalema-Zikusoka [Founder and CEO] Conservation Through Public Health
• Dr. Dan Brockington [Professor] School of Environment, Education and Development, University of Manchester on celebrity and livelihood change
• Mr. Naven Hon [Master student] Victoria University of Wellington on their research
• Mr.Amila Sumanapala [BSc Environmental Conservation and Management] Department of Zoology, University of Kelaniya on their research

We'd like to sincerely thank all of our guests on this episode as well as the SCCS team for their help to get this podcast out!

This podcast was produced by Cecile Sarabian and Andrew MacIntosh.

The PrimateCast is hosted and produced by Andrew MacIntosh. Artwork by Chris Martin. Music by Andre Goncalves.

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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 information about our guests and their activities, please follow the links below.

List of Interviews in part 5

• social networks, brain size and information flow efficiency with Dr. Cedric Sueur [Professor] University of Strasbourg, CNRS-IPHC
• Dr. Odile Petit [Director of Research] University of Strasbourg, CNRS-IPHC on the primate social credibility index
• cumulative cultural evolution with Dr. Nicolas Claidiere [Postdoctoral Researcher] Aix-Marseille University, CNRS
• Dr. Jorg Massen [Postdoctoral Researcher] Department of Cognitive Biology, University of Vienna on contagious yawning!
• Thinking about thinking elephants and mitigating human-elephant conflict with Dr. Joshua Plotnik [Lecturer in Conservation Biology] Think Elephants International, Mahidol University

We'd like to sincerely thank all of our guests on this episode as well as on the entire series of podcasts from our coverage of the 25th Congress of the International Primatological Society. We look forward to Chicago 2016.

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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 information about our guests and their activities, please follow the links below.

List of Interviews in part 4

• Dr. Agustin Fuentes [Professor] Department of Anthropology, University of Notre Dame talks ethnoprimatology
• behavioral ecology and physiology of Bornean orangutans with Dr. Cheryl Knott [Associate Professor] Department of Anthropology, Boston university
• Dr. Elisabetta Visalberghi [Research Director] Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies, National Research Council, Italy on cognitive capacities and behavioral ecology of capuchin monkeys
• the role of primate communication in evolutionary ecology and speciation with Dr. James Higham [Assistant Professor] Department of Anthropology, New York University
• Dr. Joanna Setchell [Reader] Department of Anthropology, Durham University on the role of olfaction in primate, particularly mandrill, sexual signalling

We'd like to sincerely thank all of our guests on this episode as well as on the entire series of podcasts from our coverage of the 25th Congress of the International Primatological Society. 

The PrimateCast is hosted and produced by Andrew MacIntosh. Artwork by Chris Martin. Music by Andre Goncalves.

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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 of this series, we discuss a number of issues surrounding primate conservation with five dedicated researchers and conservationists.  

List of Interviews in part 3

• Dr. Tatyana Humle [Lecturer] Durell Institute of Ecology and Conservation, School of Anthropology and Conservation, University of Kent talks about landscapes and human factors in conservation of chimpanzees in West Africa
• an unorthodox path to primate conservation with Miles Woodruff [Student, Principal Investigator JGI] Durham university, Jane Goodall Institute Mandrill Reintroduction Project
• Debbie Cox [Technical Advisor JGI] Jane Goodall Institute on the initiatives of the Jane Goodall Institute in Africa 
• author of that iconic books The Pictorial Guide to the Living Primates and All the World's Primates Noel Rowe [Author, Editor, Founder/Director PCI] Primate Conservation, Inc.
• conservation of Central African great apes with Dr. Augustin Basabose [Lecturer] Centre de Recherche en Science Naturelles (Lwiro, DRC)

We'd like to sincerely thank all of our guests on this episode as well as on the entire series of podcasts from our coverage of the 25th Congress of the International Primatological Society.

The PrimateCast is hosted and produced by Andrew MacIntosh. Artwork by Chris Martin. Music by Andre Goncalves.

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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 interview the 20 guests that appear in the series, and then spoke with two of the organizers of IPS 2014, Dr. Bert Covert and Dr. Steve Schapiro. This time around, in the second installment, we discuss why conservationists and welfare advocates need to consider the role of infectious disease in primate population management.

For anyone seeking more information about our guests and their activities, please follow the links below.

List of Interviews in part 2

• primate biodiversity conservation, infectious disease transmission between wildlife, domestic animals and local humans, and their links to public health with Dr. Tom Gillespie [Associate Professor] Department of Environmental Studies, Emory University
• Dr. Julio-Cesar Bicca-Marques [Professor] Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul on yellow fever outbreaks in howler monkeys, and how important such outbreaks may be to the future viability of howler monkey populations in Brazil and elsewhere in South America
• transitioning poached animals into sanctuaries or other suitable locations with Dr. Joe Bielitzki [Consultant] Independent Science and Technology Consulting

We'd like to sincerely thank all of our guests on this episode as well as on the entire series of podcasts from our coverage of the 25th Congress of the International Primatological Society. 

The PrimateCast is hosted and produced by Andrew MacIntosh. Artwork by Chris Martin. Music by Andre Goncalves.

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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, Mexico, The PrimateCast was no longer green, having had a couple of years of run-time to hone its operators' skills. The main result of this new-found savvy is a burst of podcast activity reflecting our coverage of the conference. 

Having lost our summer intern, Sofi Bernstein, to field work, we enlisted the efforts of four volunteer graduate students from KUPRI: 

• Yena Kim
• Lucie Rigaill
• Sayuri Takeshita
• Cecile Sarabian

Together, we were able to interview no fewer than 20 (!) scientists and conservationists, and we're going to share those with you over the coming weeks.

The PrimateCast On Location at IPS 2014

In the first installment of this five-part podcast series, we introduce the series as well as three of the four student volunteers who were so instrumental in making this happen. 

After speaking with them about their experiences at the conference for the first half of the program, we hear from two of the three main organizers of the conference: Dr. Bert Covert and Dr. Steve Schapiro. 

Dr. Covert provides an entertaining account of how this congress came together, while Dr. Shapiro, as Treasurer and VP for membership of IPS, gives us a run down of the business side of things, as well as an anticipatory look into upcoming IPS congresses. 

For anyone seeking more information about our guests and their activities, please follow the links below.

List of Interviews in part 1

• Dr. Bert Covert [Professor and Chair] Department of Anthropology, University of Colorado at Boulder
• Dr. Steve Shapiro [Associate Professor] MD Anderson Cancer Center, Michale E. Keeling Center for Comparative Medicine and Research, University of Texas

We'd like to sincerely thank all of our guests on this episode as well as on the entire series of podcasts from our coverage of the 25th Congress of the International Primatological Society. 

The PrimateCast is hosted and produced by Andrew MacIntosh. Artwork by Chris Martin. Music by Andre Goncalves.

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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 nonhuman animals to give clues about the evolution of our own considerable mental abilities.

This year's congress was held in Inuyama, hometown of the Kyoto University Primate Research Institute (KUPRI), and notably was conducted for the first time entirely in English. The president of the organizing committee this year was Dr. Tetsuro Matsuzawa of KUPRI, and there were an impressive number of speakers from around the world invited to participate and present at this event. As such, Andrew along with summer intern Sofi Bernstein decided to get on over there and talk with as many of these invitees as possible.

In this the fifth and final of five installments we hear Dr. Raman Sukumar speak about his work in the conservation and ecology of Asian elephants in India and around the world.

Topics of discussion include the major issues surrounding elephant conservation, such as human-elephant conflict, and what solutions are being developed to mitigate these issues and protect the future of the Asian elephant.

Dr. Sukumar brings his vast knowledge and experience regarding elephants and tropical forest ecology into this interview, eloquently detailing the current and future problems facing Asian elephants, including the potential impacts of continued climate change dynamics.

Dr. Sukumar is Professor in theCentre for Ecological Sciences of the Indian Institute of Science. Click here to visit his academic page. 

We'd like to sincerely thank Dr. Raman Sukumar as well as all of our other guests on this series of podcasts from our coverage of the 74th annual congress of the Japan Society for Animal Psychology.

The PrimateCast is hosted and produced by Andrew MacIntosh. Artwork by Chris Martin. Music by Andre Goncalves.

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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 nonhuman animals to give clues about the evolution of our own considerable mental abilities.

This year's congress was held in Inuyama, hometown of the Kyoto University Primate Research Institute (KUPRI), and notably was conducted for the first time entirely in English. The president of the organizing committee this year was Dr. Tetsuro Matsuzawa of KUPRI, and there were an impressive number of speakers from around the world invited to participate and present at this event. As such, Andrew along with summer intern Sofi Bernstein decided to get on over there and talk with as many of these invitees as possible.

In this the fourth of five installments we hear from Dr. Maciej Trojan speak about his work in lateralization of the animal brain. Topics of discussion include sensory and motor lateralization, possible evolutionary and ecological hypotheses for why brain lateralization exists and a bit about the context of his own work within Polish science.

Dr. Trojan is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Animal Behavior, Faculty of Psychology at the University of Warsaw, Poland. Click here to visit his academic page. 

We'd like to sincerely thank Dr. Maciej Trojan as well as all of our other guests on this series of podcasts from our coverage of the 74th annual congress of the Japan Society for Animal Psychology. 

The PrimateCast is hosted and produced by Andrew MacIntosh. Artwork by Chris Martin. Music by Andre Goncalves.

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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 nonhuman animals to give clues about the evolution of our own considerable mental abilities.

This year's congress was held in Inuyama, hometown of the Kyoto University Primate Research Institute (KUPRI), and notably was conducted for the first time entirely in English.

The president of the organizing committee this year was Dr. Tetsuro Matsuzawa of KUPRI, and there were an impressive number of speakers from around the world invited to participate and present at this event. 

As such, Andrew along with summer intern Sofi Bernstein decided to get on over there and talk with as many of these invitees as possible.

In this the third of five installments we hear from three presenters who spoke at the conference about topics generally relating to the field of animal communication. Speakers in this episode include Dr. Fumihiro Kano, Dr. John Iversen and Dr. Klaus Zuberbuhler. For more information about these researchers and their work, please click on their institution names in the list below to follow links to their respective academic pages.

List of Interviews in part 3

• Dr. Fumihiro Kano (eye-tracking great apes), University of Kyoto
• Dr. John Iversen (beat synchronization in animals), University of California San Diego
• Dr. Klaus Zuberbuhler (origins of human communication), University of Neuchatel

We'd like to sincerely thank all of our guests on this episode as well as on the entire series of podcasts from our coverage of the 74th annual congress of the Japan Society for Animal Psychology. Please do check out our other podcasts in this series, and make sure to browse our other podcast interviews with leading scientists in primatology and beyond.

This podcast series was produced by Andrew MacIntosh with special assistance from summer intern Sofi Bernstein.

The PrimateCast is hosted and produced by Andrew MacIntosh. Artwork by Chris Martin. Music by Andre Goncalves.

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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 nonhuman animals to give clues about the evolution of our own considerable mental abilities.

This year's congress was held in Inuyama, hometown of the Kyoto University Primate Research Institute (KUPRI), and notably was conducted for the first time entirely in English.

The president of the organizing committee this year was Dr. Tetsuro Matsuzawa of KUPRI, and there were an impressive number of speakers from around the world invited to participate and present at this event. 

As such, Andrew along with summer intern Sofi Bernstein decided to get on over there and talk with as many of these invitees as possible.

In this the second of five installments we hear from three presenters who spoke at the conference about topics in the general area of pro-sociality. Speakers in this episode include Dr. Ayaka Takimoto, Dr. Peggy Mason and Dr. James Anderson. For more information about these researchers and their work, please click on their institution names in the list below to follow links to their respective academic pages.

List of Interviews in part 3

• Dr. Ayaka Takimoto (fairness in capuchin monkeys), University of Tokyo
• Dr. Peggy Mason (helping behavior in rats), University of Chicago
• Dr. James Anderson (third-party social interactions), Kyoto University

We'd like to sincerely thank all of our guests on this episode as well as on the entire series of podcasts from our coverage of the 74th annual congress of the Japan Society for Animal Psychology. Please do check out our other podcasts in this series, and make sure to browse our other podcast interviews with leading scientists in primatology and beyond.

This podcast series was produced by Andrew MacIntosh with special assistance from summer intern Sofi Bernstein.

The PrimateCast is hosted and produced by Andrew MacIntosh. Artwork by Chris Martin. Music by Andre Goncalves.

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