Awards



Social Impact Award

2022

Kristana Parinters Makur, Sri Suci Utami-Atmoko, Tatang Mitra Setia, Maria A. van Noordwijk & Erin R. Vogel (2022)

Slow loris (Nycticebus borneanus) consumption by a wild Bornean orangutan (Pongo pygmaeus wurmbii). Primates 63:2531

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10329-021-00960-4

Deborah M. Williams, Sandra M. Almanza, Itzel Sifuentes-Romero & Kate M. Detwiler (2021)

The history, taxonomy, and geographic origins of an introduced African monkey in the southeastern United States. Primates 62:617627

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10329-021-00890-1

2021

William C. McGrew (2021)
Apes in fiction: does the content of novels reflect primatological knowledge? Primates 62:321330

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10329-021-00889-8
Free Access at PMC

Adriana E. Lowe, Catherine Hobaiter, Caroline Asiimwe, Klaus Zuberbühler, Nicholas E. Newton-Fisher (2020)
Intra-community infanticide in wild, eastern chimpanzees: a 24-year review. Primates 61:6982

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10329-019-00730-3
Open Access

Research identifies key driver for infanticide among chimpanzees

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2020

Shifra Z. Goldenberg, George Wittemyer (2020)
Elephant behavior toward the dead: A review and insights from field observations.
Primates 61:119–128

https://doi.org/10.1007/s10329-019-00766-5
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Researchers study elephants' unique interactions with their dead

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Louise R. Peckre, Charlotte Defolie, Peter M. Kappeler, Claudia Fichtel (2018)
Potential self-medication using millipede secretions in red-fronted lemurs: combining anointment and ingestion for a joint action against gastrointestinal parasites?
Primates 59:483–494

https://doi.org/10.1007/s10329-018-0674-7

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Madagascar’s lemurs use millipedes for their tummy troubles

Researchers observe that red-fronted lemurs may chew on millipedes to rid themselves of intestinal parasites

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Zoë Goldsborough, Edwin J. C. van Leeuwen, Kayla W. T. Kolff, Frans B. M. de Waal, Christine E. Webb (2020)
Do chimpanzees (
Pan troglodytes) console a bereaved mother? Primates 61:93–102

https://doi.org/10.1007/s10329-019-00752-x

Open Access

2019

Tomas Persson, Gabriela-Alina Sauciuc, Elainie Alenkær Madsen (2018)
Spontaneous cross-species imitation in interactions between chimpanzees and zoo visitors.
Primates 59:19–29

https://doi.org/10.1007/s10329-017-0624-9

Open Access

2018

Jie Gao, Yanjie Su, Masaki Tomonaga, Tetsuro Matsuzawa (2018)
Learning the rules of the rock–paper–scissors game: chimpanzees versus children.
Primates 59:717

https://doi.org/10.1007/s10329-017-0620-0

Chimpanzees learn rock-paper-scissors

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Snow monkey in the hot spring at the Jigokudani Monkey Park, Nagano (Photo by Kento Mori, 2015 Prizewinner at JMC Photo Contest)

Rafaela S. C. Takeshita, Fred B. Bercovitch, Kodzue Kinoshita, Michael A. Huffman (2018)
Beneficial effect of hot spring bathing on stress levels in Japanese macaques.
Primates 59:209–213

https://doi.org/10.1007/s10329-018-0655-x

Hot Springs Lower Stress in Japan's Popular Bathing Monkeys

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Spa therapy helps Japan’s snow monkeys cope with the cold

New data reveal that female Japanese macaques bathe in hot springs to lower stress from cold weather

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2017

Marie Pelé, Alexandre Bonnefoy, Masaki Shimada, Cédric Sueur (2017)
Interspecies sexual behaviour between a male Japanese macaque and female sika deer.
Primates 58:275–278

https://doi.org/10.1007/s10329-015-0482-2

Unlikely couple: Liaison between a Sika deer and a Japanese snow monkey

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Fumito Kawakami, Masaki Tomonaga, Juri Suzuki (2017)
The first smile: spontaneous smiles in newborn Japanese macaques (
Macaca fuscata). Primates 58:93–101

https://doi.org/10.1007/s10329-016-0558-7
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Smiling baby monkeys and the roots of laughter

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2016

Photo © Royal Burger's Zoo

Jan A. R. A. M. van Hooff, Bas Lukkenaar (2015)
Captive chimpanzee takes down a drone: tool use toward a flying object.
Primates 56:289292

https://doi.org/10.1007/s10329-015-0482-2

Open Access

Not on my watch: Chimp swats film crew’s drone

Incident shows that chimps are able to plan ahead and use tools as weapons
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Most-Cited Paper Award

2022

Sandra E. Smith-Aguilar, Filippo Aureli, Laura Busia, Colleen Schaffner & Gabriel Ramos-Fernández (2019)

Using multiplex networks to capture the multidimensional nature of social structure. Primates 60:277295

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10329-018-0686-3
Open Access

Sweet potato washing on the beach at Koshima (Photo by Akiko Takahashi)

Daniel P. Schofield, William C. McGrew, Akiko Takahashi, Satoshi Hirata (2018)
Cumulative culture in nonhumans: overlooked findings from Japanese monkeys? Primates 59:113122

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10329-017-0642-7
Open Access

Arijit Pal, Honnavalli N. Kumara, Partha Sarathi Mishra, Avadhoot D. Velankar, Mewa Singh (2018)
Extractive foraging and tool-aided behaviors in the wild Nicobar long-tailed macaque (Macaca fascicularis umbrosus). Primates 59:173183

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10329-017-0635-6
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2020

Lynne A. Isbell, Stephanie F. Etting (2017)
Scales drive detection, attention, and memory of snakes in wild vervet monkeys (
Chlorocebus pygerythrus). Primates 58:121–129

https://doi.org/10.1007/s10329-016-0562-y
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Erica M Tennenhouse, Sarah Putman, Nicole P Boisseau, Janine L Brown (2017)
Relationships between steroid hormones in hair and social behaviour in ring-tailed lemurs (
Lemur catta). Primates 58:199–209

https://doi.org/10.1007/s10329-016-0566-7
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Fany Brotcorne, Gwennan Giraud, Noëlle Gunst, Agustín Fuentes, I. Nengah Wandia, Roseline C. Beudels-Jamar, Pascal Poncin, Marie-Claude Huynen, Jean-Baptiste Leca (2017)
Intergroup variation in robbing and bartering by long-tailed macaques at Uluwatu Temple (Bali, Indonesia).
Primates 58:505516

https://doi.org/10.1007/s10329-017-0611-1
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Zhi-Pang Huang, Matthew B. Scott, Yan-Peng Li, Guo-Peng Ren, Zuo-Fu Xiang, Liang-Wei Cui, Wen Xiao (2017)
Black-and-white snub-nosed monkey (
Rhinopithecus bieti) feeding behavior in a degraded forest fragment: clues to a stressed population. Primates 57:517524

https://doi.org/10.1007/s10329-017-0618-7

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2019

Matthew R. McLennan, Caroline Asiimwe (2016)
Cars kill chimpanzees: case report of a wild chimpanzee killed on a road at Bulindi, Uganda.
Primates 57:377–388
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10329-016-0528-0
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Luca Morino, Makiko Uchikoshi, Fred Bercovitch, William D. Hopkins, Tetsuro Matsuzawa (2017)
Tube task hand preference in captive hylobatids.
Primates 58:403–412
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10329-017-0605-z
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Andrea Spence-Aizenberg, Anthony Di Fiore, Eduardo Fernandez-Duque (2016)
Social monogamy, male-female relationships, and biparental care in wild titi monkeys (
Callicebus discolor). Primates 57:103–112
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10329-015-0489-8
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Erica M. Tennenhouse, Sarah Putman, Nicole P. Boisseau, Janine L. Brown (2017)
Relationships between steroid hormones in hair and social behaviour in ring-tailed lemurs (
Lemur catta). Primates 58:199–209
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10329-016-0566-7
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Nahoko Tokuyama, Deborah Lynn Moore, Kirsty Emma Graham, Albert Lokasola, Takeshi Furuichi (2017)
Cases of maternal cannibalism in wild bonobos (
Pan paniscus) from two different field sites, Wamba and Kokolopori, Democratic Republic of the Congo. Primates 58:7–12
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10329-016-0582-7
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2018

Title: Mirror self-recognition: a review and critique of attempts to promote and engineer self-recognition in primates.

Authors: James R. Anderson, Gordon G. Gallup Jr.

Issue: October 2015, Volume 56, Issue 4, pp 317-326

DOI: 10.1007/s10329-015-0488-9

2017

Title: Variation in hair δ13C and δ15N values in long-tailed macaques (Macaca fascicularis) from Singapore.

Authors: Michael A. Schillaci, J. Margaret Castellini, Craig A. Stricker, Lisa Jones-Engel, Benjamin P. Y.-H. Lee, Todd M. O'Hara

Issue: January 2014, Volume 55, Issue 1, pp 25-34

DOI: 10.1007/s10329-013-0361-7


Title: Contrasting demographic histories of the neighboring bonobo and chimpanzee.

Authors: Christina Hvilsom, Frands Carlsen, Rasmus Heller, Nina Jaffré, Hans R. Siegismund

Issue: January 2014, Volume 55, Issue 1, pp 101-112

DOI: 10.1007/s10329-013-0373-3

2016

Title: The effect of urban and rural habitats and resource type on activity budgets of commensal rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta) in Bangladesh.

Authors: M. Firoj Jaman and Michael A. Huffman

Issue: January 2013, Volume 54 (1) pp 49-59

DOI: 10.1007/s10329-012-0330-6


Title: Fruiting and flushing phenology in Asian tropical and temperate forests: implications for primate ecology.

Authors: Goro Hanya, Yamato Tsuji and Cyril C. Grueter

Issue: April 2013, Volume 54 (2) pp 101-110

DOI: 10.1007/s10329-012-0341-3


Title: Cathemerality in wild ring-tailed lemurs (Lemur catta) in the spiny forest of Tsimanampetsotsa National Park: camera trap data and preliminary behavioral observations.

Aurhors: Marni LaFleur, Michelle Sauther, Frank Cuozzo, Nayuta Yamashita, Ibrahim Antho Jacky Youssouf, and Richard Bender

Issue: April 2014, Volume 55 (2) pp 207-217

DOI: 10.1007/s10329-013-0391-1

2015

Title: Fruiting and flushing phenology in Asian tropical and temperate forests: implications for primate ecology.

Authors: Goro Hanya, Yamato Tsuji and Cyril C. Grueter

Issue: April 2013, Volume 54 (2) pp 101-110

DOI: 10.1007/s10329-012-0341-3

2014

Title: Dietary adaptations of temperate primates: comparisons of Japanese and Barbary macaques.

Authors: Goro Hanya, Nelly Me'nard, Mohamed Qarro, Mohamed Ibn Tattou, Mieko Fuse, Dominique Vallet, Aya Yamada, Moe Go, Hino Takafumi, Riyou Tsujino, Naoki Agetsuma, and Kazuo Wada

Issue: April 2011, Volume 52 (2) pp 187-198

DOI: 10.1007/s10329-011-0239-5

2013

Title: Host age, sex, and reproductive seasonality affect nematode parasitism in wild Japanese macaques.

Authors: Andrew J. J. MacIntosh, Alexander D. Hernandez and Michael A. Huffman

Issue: October 2010, Volume 51 (4) pp 353-364

DOI: 10.1007/s10329-010-0211-9

2012

Title: A social network analysis of primate groups.

Authors: Claudia Kasper and Bernhard Voelkl

Issue: October 2009, Volume 50 (4) pp 343-356

DOI: 10.1007/s10329-009-0153-2

2011

Title: Within-species differences in primate social structure: evolution of plasticity and phylogenetic constraints.

Authors: Colin A. Chapman and Jessica M. Rothman

Issue: January 2009, Volume 50 (1) pp12-22

DOI: 10.1007/s10329-008-0123-0

2010

Title: Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) learn to act with other individuals in a cooperative task.

Authors: Satoshi Hirata and Kohki Fuwa

Issue: January 2007, Volume 48 (1) pp 13-21

DOI: 10.1007/s10329-006-0022-1

2009

Title: Counting primates for conservation: primate surveys in Uganda.

Authors: Andrew J. Plumptre and Debby Cox

Issue: January 2006, Volume 47 (1) pp 65-73

DOI: 10.1007/s10329-005-0146-8

2008

Title: Group size in folivorous primates: ecological constraints and the possible in?uence of social factors.

Authors: Colin A. Chapman and Mary S. M. Pavelka

Issue:January 2005 Vol. 46 (1) pp1-9

DOI: 10.1007/s10329-004-0093-9

2007

Title: Reconciliation and post-conflict third-party affiliation among wild chimpanzees in the Mahale Mountains, Tanzania .

Authors: Nobuyuki Kutsukake and Duncan L. Castles

Issue: July 2004, Vol. 45 (3) pp 157-165

DOI: 10.1007/s10329-004-0082-z