Past meeting (from 1996) archived speaker lists
Winter meeting 2013 Modelling Primate Social Organisation, 11th December, Linnean Society, London Organised by Nienke Alberts, Kit Opie and Susanne Shultz Charlotte Hemelrijk, The University of Groningen. The self-‐organization of primate social systems, models, and empirical data
Andrew King, Swansea University. Group coordination and collective decision-‐making by primates
David Lusseau, University of Aberdeen. Chance and necessity shaping interactions in the socioecological landscape of individuals.
Joanna Bryson, University of Bath. Dominance, fitness, social structure and ecology: reconciling several popular models.
Kit Opie, University College London. Infanticide triggers primate monogamy
Osman Hill Memorial lecture
Phyllis Lee, University of Stirling. Reproductive costs and social evolution in primates and other mammals
Napier Medal
Stephen Montgomery, University College London. The primate brain: evolutionary history and genetics
Julia Lehmann, University of Roehampton. Time management and social flexibility in great apes
Jessica Flack, Center for Complexity and Collective Computation and Santa Fe Institute. Social evolution: collective, computational, and driven by uncertainty reduction.
Emily Messer, University of St Andrews. Network centrality predicts the diffusion of socially learnt foraging techniques in common squirrel monkeys.
Russell Hill, Durham University. Spatial models and the landscape of fear.
Spring Meeting 2013 2-‐3rd April, University of Lincoln Organised by Bino Majolo Anna Wilkinson, Cold-‐blooded cognition: What can studying reptiles tell us about primate cognition?
Emily Lodge*, Caroline Ross & Ann MacLarnon, Roehampton. Influence of diet and stress on reproductive hormones in Nigerian olive baboons
Ann F. Smet* & Richard W. Byrne, African elephants' use of human social cues
Jamie Whitehouse*, Jérôme Micheletta, Lauren Powell, Celia Bordier & Bridget Waller. The welfare impact of cognitive testing on group housed primates.
Christopher Young*, Sabine Hähndel, Bonaventura Majolo, Oliver Schülke & Julia Ostner. Male coalitions and female behaviour predict deviation of male mating success from the predictions of the Priority of Access Model
Kim A. Bard*, R. Bakeman, S.T. Boysen & D.A. Leavens , The development of social cognition in chimpanzee and human infants
Plenary lecture Julia Ostner, Sociality and cooperation in male primates.
Sally E. Street*, Catharine P. Cross & Gillian R. Brown, Are exaggerated sexual swellings in the Old World primates honest signals of fertility and quality?
Claudia A.F. Wascher*, Friederike Hillemann, Thomas Bugnyar & Valerie Dufour, Coping with a delay of gratification in corvids compared to primates.
Stefano S.K. Kaburu* & Nicholas E. Newton-‐Fisher, Market forces predict the distribution of grooming among wild male chimpanzees.
William D. Hopkins, Mark James Adams* & Alexander Weiss, Heritability of handedness in chimpanzees.
Colin M. Brand* & Linda F. Marchant, Hair plucking in captive bonobos (Pan paniscus).
Plenary lecture Kevin N. Laland, Animal social learning and the evolution of culture
Emma C. Tecwyn*, Susannah K.S. Thorpe & Jackie Chappell, A novel test of planning ability: Performance of orangutans, bonobos, and human children
Caspian L. Johnson*, Fiona A. Stewart, Dan W. Forman, Andrew J. King & Alex K. Piel, The yellow mile: Patterns of space-‐ and resource-‐use by yellow baboons in Ugalla, Western Tanzania
Winter meeting 2012
Primate Biogeography 5th December 2012, Zoological Society of London Organised by Sarah Elton, Helen Chatterjee, Russell Hill and Sam Turvey Alexander Harcourt, University of California, Davis. Human Biogeography. Is Man Merely a
Monkey?
Jason Kamilar, Midwestern University. The biogeography of primate communities: Ecological and evolutionary perspectives
Andrea Cardini, University of Modena and Reggio-‐Emilia. Primate biogeography in the phenomic era: is there a role for digital taxonomy?
Simon Bearder, Oxford Brookes University. Osman Hill Memorial Lecture Primate Taxonomy in the Field: New insights into Biodiversity, Biogeography and Phylogeny.
Terry Dawson, University of Dundee. What future for primates in the age of the anthropocene?
Robert Marchant, University of York. East African Forest dynamics: understanding past distributions to guide present and future conservation challenges
Shawn Lehman, University of Toronto. Where the Wild Things Are: Lemur Conservation Biogeography in the 21st Century.
Vincent Nijman, Oxford Brookes University. Biogeography and primate conservation: case studies from Java and Borneo
Sam Turvey, Zoological Society London. Primate extinctions and biogeographic change during the Holocene
Spring Meeting 2012 17-‐18 April 2012, Port Lympne Wildlife Park Organised by Mark Kingston Jones and Tatyana Hulme Speakers Dr Benjamin Beck, Great Apes Trust. Training and the Development of Survival-‐Critical
Behaviors in Captive-‐Born Golden Lion Tamarins
Conrad Brimacombe, University of Sheffield (Lockwood Awardee). Growth and development in the genus Pan: a life history approach
Caroline Phillips, University of Cambridge (Lockwood Awardee). Pyrosequencing of Plant DNA in Chimpanzee Faeces
Blake Morton, University of Stirling (Lockwood Awardee). Taking Personality Bias Seriously in Animal Cognition Research: A Case Example in Brown Capuchin Monkeys
Made Wedana, The Aspinall Foundation. The Javan Primates Conservation Project
Katriona Smith. Can ring-‐tailed lemurs, Lemur catta, show self-‐control under experimental conditions?
Emily Lodge, University of Roehampton. The variable effect of rainfall on the condition of forest living baboons in Gashaka Gumti National Park, Nigeria.
Steve Unwin, PASA. The PASA vet network – Helping PASA fulfil its welfare and conservation objectives.
Ben Coleman, UCL. The effect of predation risk and resource distribution on the ranging behaviour of samango monkeys
Nienke Alberts, Roehampton. Predation risk and food availability influence fission-‐fusion dynamics of wild olive baboons in Nigeria
Pawel Fedurek, University of York. Duet pant hooting reflects both long-‐term and short-‐term social bonds in wild male chimpanzees
Anna Barros, UCL. Bilateral asymmetry in humeral torsion: using the skeleton to assess patterns of arm preference in great apes and humans
Caterina Quaresmini, University of Trento. A comparative study across primate species on the evolution of cerebral lateralization
Kathelijne Koops, University of Cambridge. Chimpanzee nest-‐building: anti-‐predation, thermoregulation or parasite-‐avoidance strategy?
Winter Meeting 2011
Gardeners of the Forest: Primate Ecology and Forest Conservation
1st December 2011 Clifton Pavilion , Bristol Zoo Gardens.
Held in conjunction with the Bristol Conservation and Science Foundation
Organisers: Dr Christoph Schwitzer, Dr Sue Dow and Charlotte Bryant (Bristol Conservation and Science Foundation)
Speakers
Prof. Jörg Ganzhorn (Hamburg University)
Prof. Vernon Reynolds (University of Oxford)
Dr. Susan Cheyne (University of Oxford)
Dr. Helen Chatterjee (University College London)
Dr. David Chivers (University of Cambridge)
Dr Amanda H. Korstjens (Bournemouth University)
PSGB Spring Meeting 2011
Evolution of the Modern Primatologist
Liverpool 27th & 28th April 2011
Organisers: Emma Nelson, Sean O'Hara and Mary Blanchard
Simon Bearder, Oxford Brookes University. Shining light into the darkness: The advantages of life-‐long fieldwork.
Abigail Phillips, University of Birmingham. The development of positional behaviour in wild Bornean orangutans (P. p. wumbii): Using lasers to investigate the effects of body growth
Vernon Reynolds and Andrew Lloyd, Oxford and Brighton Universities. Adaptation to loss of a source of sodium in Budongo chimpanzees
Alex Georgiev, Harvard University. Seed-‐eating, diet and energetic balance in wild bonobos at Kokolopori, DRC
Phyllis Lee, Stirling University. Why Tinbergen studied fish
Matthew Bennett, University of Bournemouth. Lake Front to Dunescapes: Tracking our ancestors
Nienke Alberts, Roehampton University. Troop differences in patterns of spatial association and social interactions in olive baboons (Papio hamadryas anubis) in Gashaka-‐Gumti National Park, Nigeria
Steven Chance, Oxford University. Anatomy of the cerebral cortex reveals selective expansion of microcircuits in chimpanzee prefrontal cortex but greater difference between brain regions in humans
Mark Adams, University of Edinburgh. That’s my family, that’s not me: genetic effects and repeated measures
Emily Lodge, Roehampton University. Calculated energy balance and urinary c-‐peptides: a comparison of methods for assessing the energetic status of Nigerian olive baboons
Richard McFarland, University of Lincoln. Repairing relations or reaping rewards? The differential benefits of reconciliation in wild Barbary macaques
Christophe Boesch, Max Planck Institute, Leipzig. Chimpanzee culture and camera traps Stuart Semple
Isabelle Winder, University of York. Linking primate foot anatomy, ecology and landscape use
Kit Opie, Oxford University. The evolution of pair living in primates
Miguel Pita, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. Estimation of human–chimpanzee DNA homology using comparative whole-‐genome research
Alex Weiss, University of Edinburgh Melding epidemiology and differential primatology research: Personality, subjective wellbeing, and longevity in orangutans (Pongo spp.)
Winter Meeting 2010
Gombe 50
8th and 9th December 2010 Zoological Society of London, Meeting Rooms. ZSL, Regents Park, London. Organiser: Dr Sonya P. Hill (Conservation Medicine Division, Chester Zoo)
SPEAKERS
Jane Goodall DBE (Founder, the Jane Goodall Institute)
D. Anthony Collins (Gombe Stream Research Centre, Tanzania)
Tara Golshan (Executive Director for Education, "Jane Goodall's Roots & Shoots")
Shadrack Kamenya (Gombe Stream Research Centre, Tanzania)
Phyllis C. Lee (University of Stirling, UK)
William C. McGrew (University of Cambridge, UK)
Guy Norton (Anglia Ruskin University, UK / Director of the Animal Behaviour Research Unit, Mikumi National Park, Tanzania)
Prof. Anne E. Pusey (Duke University, USA)
Ian Redmond OBE (Chief Consultant, GRASP -‐ UNEP/UNESCO Great Ape Survival Partnership; Prof. Andy Whiten (St Andrews University) will be receiving the Osman Hill Medal, and will give a presentation entitled: "Cultural elements in a chimpanzee community (Goodall, 1973) 37 years on."
Spring Meeting 2010
WEDNESDAY 7th & THURSDAY 8th APRIL UNIVERSITY OF ABERTAY DUNDEE, KYDD BUILDING SPEAKERS
CAREL VAN SCHAIK ( University of Zürich) The evolution of brain size; benefits, costs and consequences
FAY CLARK* (University of Cambridge) From individual to community: using social network analysis to explore the social structure of captive chimpanzees
LEWIS DEAN* -‐ (University of St Andrews) Constraints on cumulative culture in chimpanzees CATHERINE HOBAITER* (University of St Andrews) The case for a common gestural repertoire
among great apes: evidence from wild chimpanzees. VERENA KERSKEN* (University of St Andrews) Non-‐linguistic vocal behaviour in human infants
(Homo sapiens); primatological perspectives CLAIRE WATSON* (University of Stirling) Can a social culture of increased affiliation be
facilitated in captive monkeys through call playback? STEVEN MONTGOMERY* (University of Cambridge) What role do microcephaly genes play in
primate brain evolution? SUSANNE SHULTZ (University of Oxford) Evolutionary encephalisation is not a general
phenomenon in mammals, but is common to socially bonded groups JASON DUNN*(Hull York Medical School) Clinal patterns of craniofacial morphology in baboons
(Papio spp.): a geometric morphometric approach KATHARINE BALOLIA* (University College London) application of the comparative method in
reconstructing extinct primate social behaviour EMMA NELSON* (University of Liverpool) Digit ratios (2D:4D) and social systems in fossil
hominids MARK BOWLER – Living Links to Human Evolution Research Centre Public engagement with
science at the Living Links to Human Evolution Research Centre JAMES ANDERSON – Behaviour and Evolution Research Group, Department of Psychology,
University of Stirling Primate “I” JANA UHER – Department of Psychology, Free University Berlin What is personality and how can
we study it in primates? KATHY BAKER* – University of Exeter and Newquay Zoo Enriching the individual: can personality
predict response to enrichment in primates? THOMAS BUGNYAR – Department of Cognitive Biology, University of Vienna Raven politics: can
concepts derived from primates be applied to birds? VICKY FISHLOCK – Department of Psychology, University of Stirling Exploring social arenas for
forest elephants LOUISE LOCK* – Department of Psychology, University of Stirling Daytime associations, kinship
and preferred sleeping areas: their influence on sleep selection in captive chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes)
JEROEN SMAERS – University College London and University of Cambridge The socioecological adaptive basis of primate mosaic brain evolution
STEVEN CHANCE – John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford The neuro-‐anatomy of the face processing area in chimpanzees and humans
ERIC LEWITUS – University College London By convention color: evolution of the primary visual cortex
Winter Meeting 2009
Primate Stress: Causes, Responses and Consequences
1st and 2nd December 2009 Zoological Society of London, Meeting Rooms. ZSL, Regents Park, London.
Organised by Paul Honess (Oxford University), Stuart Semple (Roehampton University), Tessa Smith (University of Chester)
SPEAKERS
Suomi, Stephen Risk, resilience, and gene x environment interactions in primates
Garner, Joseph Enrichment, chronic stress and its impact on research data
Davis, Nick Glucocorticoid responses to environmental and social stressors in zoo-‐housed spider monkeys
Eckardt, Winnie The effect of weaning stress on the social behaviour of mountain gorillas
Koolhaas, Jaap Stress revisited: a critical evaluation of the stress concept
Weiss, Alexander Ratings of zoo chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) and orangutans (Pongo pygmaeus and Pongo abelii) are not anthropomorphic projections
Cooper, Tara The influence of visitor density on the behaviour of zoo-‐housed gorillas (Gorilla gorilla gorilla) and chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes)
Shively, Carol Social subordination stress effects behavior, pathophysiology, and disease risk in adult cynomolgus macaques
Bethell, Emily Stress and attentional bias in rhesus macaques
Adams, Mark Subjective well-‐being is genetically correlated with personality in orangutans
PSGB Spring Meeting 2009
Form and Function
Thursday and Friday 16 & 17 April 2009 Bournemouth University
SPEAKERS
Gabrielle Macho Linking morphology, behaviour and ecology: how reliable are inferences from fragmentary hominin remains?
Jacklyn J. Ellis Correlates of stress and anxiety in wild male olive baboons (Papio hamadryas anubis) in Gashaka-‐-‐-‐Gumti National Park, Nigeria
Lauren J N Brent Social networks in adult female rhesus macaques
Denise Bailey The Jane Goodall Institute
Sarah Elton Form and function in the primate skeleton: guenon case studies
Katharine Balolia Sexual dimorphism and extended cranial growth in the great apes: links between morphology and social behaviour
Lisa Riley Cognitive enrichment in chimpanzees
Jan van Hooff PUBLIC LECTURE: Darwin with a smile
Todd Rae Applying numbers to the three Fs: form, function, and phylogeny
Nick Davis The impact of social events on urinary cortisol in zoo housed spider monkeys
Claire Santorelli Vocal traditions in communities of wild spider monkeys
Robin Crompton Biomechanical analysis of the Laetoli footprint trails
Erica Kempf Patterns of water use in primates
Marina Kenyon Vocal communication in Nomascus gabriellae in Cat Tien National Park, Vietnam
Emma Nelson Associations between digit ratios (2D:4D) and dominance-‐-‐-‐rank in female rhesus macaques from Cayo Santiago
William C McGrew Sex differences in sibling caretaking by cotton-‐top tamarins: acquiring skills or paying dues?
Mark E. Harrison Energetic advantages of large body size in orangutans
Robin Dunbar Darwin, Time and Morphology: Constraints on Sociality in Primates and their Implications for Evolution
Winter Meeting 2008
Primate Conservation: Measuring and mitigating trade in primates
Wednesday 3 December 2008 Meeting Rooms of the Zoological Society of London, Regent's Park, London NW1 4RY. Organized by Giuseppe Donati, Anna Nekaris, Vincent Nijman and Juliet Wright of Oxford Brookes
University. SPEAKERS
John Fa and David Brown, Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust – Bushmeat consumption and trade -‐ need for balance
John Oates, Hunter College CUNY -‐ Miss Waldron's red colobus and the bushmeat trade: a cautionary tale
Cara Buckley and Alison Cronin, Monkey World Ape Rescue Centre – Monkey world’s 21years: a fight against the illegal and legal trade in primates
Chris R. Shepherd, TRAFFIC Southeast Asia -‐ Primate trade in Southeast Asia
Juliet Wright, Oxford Brookes University -‐ Developing alternatives to bushmeat: a discussion of the options with specific reference to the Lebialem Hunters’ BeekeepingInitiative
Tricia J. Paris and Anna Nekaris, Oxford Brookes University -‐ Identifying the CITES Appendix I-‐listed slow loris: a training programme for enforcement officials and rescue centres in Southeast Asia
William C. McGrew, University of Cambridge -‐ Chasing Chimpanzee Culture -‐ Osman Hill Memorial Lecture
Neil Maddison and Bryan Carroll, Bristol Zoo – Addressing the illegal bushmeat trade supply chain
Michael W. Bruford, Anne C. Rönn, Olga Andrés, Francesc López-‐Giráldez, C. Johnsson-‐Glans, Ernst J. Verschoor, Xavier Domingo-‐Roura, Ann C. Syvänen, Montserrat Bosch and the INPRIMAT Consortium A first generation microarray system for forensic identification of primate species subject to bushmeat trade
Rachel Hevesi, Monkey Sanctuary Trust -‐ Mitigating trade: a case for treating the symptoms and affecting a cure
Susan M. Cheney, University of Oxford -‐ Gibbon rehabilitation – challenges and opportunities
Madelaine Westwood and Ian Redmond, Great Apes Film Initiative and GRASP -‐ Great Apes Film Initiative: how can conservation films be a force for change andgenerate positive action?
Vincent Nijman: Closing remarks and raffle results
Spring 2008
Winter Meeting 2007 PSGB: Celebrating 40 Years of British Primatology
Monday 17th –Tuesday 18th December 2007
Meeting Rooms of the Zoological Society of London, Regent's Park, London NW1 4RY. Meeting organised by: Charlie Lockwood, Caroline Ross, Andrew Smith
SPEAKERS
Bob Martin Evolution of primate reproduction -‐ The key issue of placentation Ann MacLarnon Primate life history adaptations – combining laboratory and field approaches Phyllis Lee Primate parenting and development: mothers, infants and others.... Founder Member Address: Robert Hinde Non-‐human primates and human behaviour Bernard Wood Palaeoanthropology: Then and now Corri Waitt The evolution of the face as a mechanism for mate choice: evidence from rhesus
macaques. Klaus Zuberbühler The primate roots of human language Bill Sellers Primate Locomotion: The Hows and Whys of Strepsirhine Leaping Paul Honess A Reassessment of Galago Diversity: Fieldguide Practicality vs Laboratory Analyses. Hannah Buchanan-‐Smith Applying science to improving captive primate welfare Hilary Box The Primate Society of Great Britain – Supporting and developing primatology Russell Hill Predation and primate behaviour David Chivers From Forests to Fragments in Forty Years around the Far East Conservation medal lecture Cyril Rosen Psimian Psychology Robin Dunbar Half a century of primate social evolution Barry Keverne Primate brain evolution and consequences for behaviour Simon Bearder The special senses of nocturnal primates: social complexity with smaller brains. Robert Barton Brain size and development in primates Chris Pryce Parental nurturing of offspring development: how and why early experience
regulates brain and behaviour Colleen Schaffner Living with fission-‐fusion dynamics: Implications for social relationships in wild
spider monkeys Andrew Whiten Primate Culture: From the Field to Diffusion Experiments and Back Again
PSGB Spring Meeting 2007
Sex and Violence
Wednesday and Thursday 18-‐19 April 2007, Elvet Riverside Lecture Hall, Durham University
Organised by Russell Hill
SPEAKERS
Peter Kappeler: Sexual selection and lemur evolution
James Higham, Stuart Semple, Ann MacLarnon, Michael Heistermannn & Caroline Ross: Baboon sexual swellings in a multiple-‐signal framework
Andrew King, C Douglas, Elise Huchard, Nick Isaac & Guy Cowlishaw: Group decision-‐making where interest’s conflict: leaders and followers in baboon groups
Erik Willems & Russell Hill: Range use and habitat selection by a group of vervet monkeys (Cercopithecus aethiops)
Andrew Smith: Factors effecting intergroup encounters between wild mixed-‐species troops of saddleback (Saguinus fuscicollis) and moustached tamarins (S. mystax)
Osman Hill Memorial Lecture: Alison Jolly: Survival in a forest fragment: Ringtailed lemurs of Berenty
Dave Perrett: To be announced
Jo Setchell: Signal content of red coloration in mandrills
Trudi Buck & Una Strand Vidarsdottir: Environmental influences on human craniofacial shape variation
Henry Pihlström & Mikael Fortelius: Diel activity pattern and relative orbit size: how do primates and non-‐primates compare?
Emily J. Bethell, Stuart Semple, Mandy Holmes, Ann MacLarnon: Cogitive bias in rhesus macaques
Kimberley Hockings, Tatyana Humle, Dora Biro, Claudia Sousa, James Anderson & Tetsuro Matsuzawa Chimpanzees share forbidden fruit
Orlaith Fraser & Filippo Aureli: The function of post-‐conflict consolation in captive chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes)
Simon Townsend, Katie Slocombe, Melissa Emery Thompson & Klaus Zuberbühler: Female led infanticide in wild chimpanzees
Sean O’Hara: Sex and (avoiding) violence
Robin Dunbar: Understanding primate social evolution
Winter Meeting 2006
Primate Conservation Genetics: Current Strategies and Future Prospects
West Road Concert Hall at the University of Cambridge Organised by Mike Bruford and Leslie Knapp SPEAKERS
Mike Bruford, Cardiff University. The application of molecular genetics to the conservation of primates: does it matter?
Brenda Bradley, University of Cambridge. Conservation genetics of an elusive primate: Studying and protecting wild gorillas through noninvasive DNA analyses
Michael Kruetzen, University of Zurich. Challenges in the reintroduction of cultural primate species: the role of genetics and social learning
Gillian Olivieri, TiHo, Hannover. Genetic diversity of mouse lemurs (Microcebus spp.)
Leslie Knapp, University of Cambridge. Major histocompatibility complex gene diversity: Implications for primate conservation
Nick Mundy, University of Cambridge. Polymorphic colour vision in New World primates: causes and consequences for conservation
Todd Disotell, New York University. Primate phylogenomics and conservation
Ann-‐Charlotte Rönn, Uppsala University. Whole Genome Amplification and the use of DNA phylochips for the identification of primate products.
E. Jean Wickings, CIRMF. Primate Conservation Genetics in a Central African context
PSGB Spring Meeting 2006
University of Stirling
SPEAKERS
Steven Schapiro, University of Texas Taking advantage of primate mentality to enhance wellbeing: using positive reinforcement training techniques in research settings
Alexander Weiss, University of Edinburgh Subjective well-‐being in zoo chimpanzees and orangutans
Hannah Buchanan-‐Smith, University of Stirling Applying the three Rs to non-‐human primates
Sarah Wolfensohn, University of Oxford Training primates to improve welfare in biomedical research
Amanda Seed, University of Cambridge Examining convergent evolution of mentality in species with divergent bodies: tests of physical cognition in corvids and apes
Anne Helme, University of Cambridge Understanding physical contact: comparative cognition in rooks (Corvus frugilegus) and bonobos (Pan paniscus)
Norberto Asensio, Liverpool John Moores University Intra-‐group aggression in wild spider monkeys
Martina Konečná, University of South Bohemia, Czech Republic Does recorded behaviour support trait ratings of observers in free-‐living male Hanuman langurs (Semnopithecus entellus)?
Guy Norton and colleagues, Anglia Ruskin University Symposium: Long-‐term studies on yellow baboon (Papio cynocephalus) behaviour and ecology in Mikumi National Park, Tanzania • Guy Norton -‐ Introduction • Amy Stelman -‐ The Effects of Climate and Group Size on the Time Budgets of Yellow Baboons • Rachael Thompson -‐ Demographic and Ecological Effects on Space Use in Yellow Baboons • Michael Canas -‐ Assessing the Influence and Effects of Rank upon Lifetime Reproductive Success in Female Yellow Baboons • Liesel Jolly -‐ Assessing the Influence of Rank, Demography and Resources on Secondary Sex Ratio Adjustment in the Yellow Baboon • Helen Vargas-‐Ashby -‐ The Function of Allogrooming in Yellow Baboons: Hygiene vs. Social
Cécile Garcia, CNRS Paris Female reproductive success in a group of captive olive baboons (Papio anubis)
Lindsay Skyner, University of Chester Is cortisol a reliable indicator for assessing well-‐being in primates?
Johanna Rabineau, University of Exeter Assessing the welfare of zoo-‐housed Abyssinian colobus (Colobus guereza kikuyuensis)
Verity Bowell, University of Stirling Identifying and dealing with individual differences in rates of learning when training common marmosets (Callithrix jacchus)
Vicky Melfi, Paignton Zoo Environmental Park How can we measure if training is enriching? Mark Prescott, National Centre for the Replacement, Refinement and Reduction of Animals in Research (NC3Rs) The NC3Rs and primate welfare
Winter Meeting 2005 Primate Evolution and the Environment Friday 9th December 2005
Flett Theatre, The Natural History Museum, London Organised by:
Christophe Soligo, The Natural History Museum,
Bob Martin, The Field Museum: Primate origins: implications of a Cretaceous ancestry.
Christophe Soligo, The Natural History Museum: Invading Europe: did climate or geography trigger early Eocene primate dispersals?
Erik Seiffert, Oxford University: Primate response to climate change through the later Eocene and early Oligocene in North Africa.
Peter Andrews, The Natural History Museum: Middle Miocene dispersal of apes out of Africa.
Jussi Eronen / Mikael Fortelius, University of Helsinki: Just how wet? Neogene primate distributions and the nature of the hypsodonty humidity proxy.
Susan Antón, New York University: Size, scale and environment in early Homo.
Sarah Elton, University of Hull: Environmental correlates of the cercopithecoid radiations. Jonathan Kingdon, Oxford University: Primate signalling in a noisy environment.
Laurie Godfrey, University of Massachusetts: Ecosystems in disequilibrium: anthropogenic impacts on the primate communities of Madagascar.
Urs Thalmann, University of Zürich: Biodiversity, phylogeography, biogeography and conservation: lemurs as an example.
Spring Meeting 2005
University College Chester, Chester UK Tuesday 22nd and Wednesday 23rd March SPEAKERS
Frans B. M. de Waal Is Man a Wolf to Man? – Morality and the Social Behavior of our Fellow Primates
Nobuyuki Kutsukake Reproductive conflict and regulation of relationship in non-‐primates: lessons from meerkats
William C. McGrew & Melanie M. Beuerlein It takes a community to rear a chimpanzee, or does it?
Filippo Aureli & Colleen M. Schaffner Fission-‐fusion dynamics complicate the regulation of social relationships
Peter Henzi, Parry Clarke & Louise Barrett When Worlds Collide: Patterns of Engagement among Male and Female Baboons
Lindsay Skyner & Tessa Smith What Regulates Hvpothalamic Pituitary Adrenal Activity in Lion-‐tailed Macaques (Macaca silenus)?
McCusker, C.F., Elwood, RW & Smith, T.E.l Does the hypothalamic-‐pituitary adrenal axis regulate social dominance interactions in Lemur catta?
Clare L. Cunningham & James R. Anderson Solutions to a trap-‐table task: do gibbons (Hylobatidae) use simple associative rules for success?
Linda F. Marchant Studying Wild Chimpanzees in Senegal A. Paukner, lR. Andersonl, E. Borelli, E. Visalberghi & P.F. Ferrari Macaques (Macaca
nemestrina) recognise when they are being imitated Yvan, Russell, Josep Call, Robin M. Dunbar An indirect reputation experiment in four great ape
species Nicola F. Koyama, Clare Caws & Filippo Aureli. Planning ahead?: The interchange of grooming
and agonistic support in captive chimpanzees. Lindsay Murray Primate personality: Use of rating scales to assess individual differences in
gorillas (G. g. gorilla) and pygmy chimpanzees (Pan paniscus). Andrea Donaldson & Rachel Hevesi on behalf of The Monkey Sanctuary Trust (MST) The Social
Rehabilitation of Monkeys from The UK Primate Pet Trade Johanna Maughan & Carlos Peres Dry season adaptations of the white-‐whiskered spider
monkey(Ateles marginatus). Kathy Slater, Colleen M. Schaffner& Filippo Aureli Investigating a baby market in wild spider
monkeys Davis, N., Schaffner, C.M., Wehnelt, S. The dynamics of spider monkey aggression in zoos Alison W Fletcher & Angela A Nowell Suckling in Mountain and Lowland Gorillas – Variation in
Timescales Related to Feeding Ecology? Kirsten Pullen Changes in social interactions within a captive bachelor gorilla group over time
and following changes in group composition: indications for the regulation of social relationships
Tessa E Smith & Josephine M McCallister Physiological and behavioural dispositions vary across the callitrichid genus
PSGB Winter Meeting 2004
People, Primates and Conservation.
1st December 2004 The Meeting Rooms, Zoological Society of London.
Organised by Kate Hill, Oxford Brookes University.
SPEAKERS
Phyllis Lee ~ Who wins? Human –primate conflict in the context of conservation, development and gender.
Nancy Priston ~ Cheeky monkeys: human-‐wildlife conflict in South East Sulawesi.
Garry Marvin ~ Alarms, skirmishes, battles and warfare: human-‐wildlife conflicts
Carel van Schaik ~ Osman Hill Lecture: Correlated evolution between cognitive and cultural abilities
Francine Maddine ~ A multidisciplinary perspective on the prevention and mitigation of human-‐ mountain gorilla conflict in southwest Uganda.
Anna Feistner ~ Primate conservation.
K.A.I/ Nekaris and Helga Schulze ~ Historical and recent developments of human-‐loris relations in south and south east Asia.
John Fa ~ Bushmeat hunting and primates in Africa.
PSGB Spring Meeting 2004
‘The diversity of zoo primate research’
Monday 29th & Tuesday 30th March Paignton Zoo Environmental Park, Devon, UK.
SPEAKERS
Mike Bruford ~ Molecular Genetics and Management of Captive Primates. Kristiaan D'Août et al. ~ Non-‐invasive studies of primate locomotion in captive populations. Victoria Cooper & Geoff Hosey ~ Has sexual dichromatism in the subspeices of brown lemur
(Eulemur fulvus) evolved as a result of female preference? Órlaith Fraser & Amy Plowman ~ What is the function of notification in hamadryas baboons?
Christine Caldwell ~ Studying social learning and innovation in zoo-‐housed primates Sonya Hill & Donald Broom ~ Behavioural and physiological measures of disturbance in captive
western lowland gorillas (Gorilla gorilla gorilla) Stephanie Wehnelt et al. ~ Visitor numbers effect endocrinological stress levels and behaviour
in orang-‐utans at Chester Zoo. Courtney Keane & Nicola Marples ~ A study of the behaviour of a gorilla group in Dublin Zoo,
based on the effects of visitors. Ross Snipp ~ The behavioural response of 3 species of lemur (Eulemur fulvus rufus, Eulemur
rubriventer & Varecia variegata variegata) to a mixed species exhibit and the presence of visitors.
Sharon Redrobe ~ The medical management of social behaviour in gorillas Geoff Hosey & Lindsay Skyner ~ Does self-‐injurious behaviour occur in zoo primates? Jeroen Stevens et al. ~ Dominance and power relations in captive bonobos Nicholas Glaves & Myfanwy Griffith ~ The appropriate use of enrichment items for captive
chimpanzees Susan Wiper & Mary Holland ~ Social group behaviour in captive chimpanzees Mark Prescott ~ The Primate Society of Great Britain Captive Care Working Party Andrea Fidgett ~ Feeding monkeys nuts? Progress in captive primate nutrition. Jim Lawson ~ A review of current understanding on marmoset nutrition in relation to immune
sensitisation & 'Gluten' intolerance. Marina Vancatova ~ The growth and development of chimpanzees and orangutans in captivity.
Fay Poyser, Vicky Melfi & Ghislaine Sayers ~ Trichuris sp. in zoo-‐housed colobines Vicky Melfi ~ Zoo primate research: A summary. Kate Jeffery et al. ~ Genetic relatedness of western lowland gorillas at Lope, Gabon A Nowell & A Fletcher ~ The development of feeding behaviour in immature wild western
lowland gorillas (Gorilla gorilla gorilla) Clare Cunningham & James Anderson ~ Tool manipulation to gain a reward in gibbons: Insight,
learning & understanding Erik Willems ~ Ultimate causes of female transfer in the Thomas langur (Presbytis thomasi) Corrie Waitt & Anthony Little ~ Facial attractiveness may influence nonhuman primate mate
choice
PSGB Winter Meeting 2003
Here's Looking at You: 100 Years of Baboon Research
PSGB Meeting, London Zoo, December 3rd 2003 Organised by Louise Barrett
SPEAKERS
Peter Henzi Baboon natural histories and futures
Robin Dunbar The gelada: a model baboon?
Sarah Elton Over the hill at 40? How baboon models are still useful in palaeoanthropology, middle-‐age spread and all.
Dietmar Zinner Causes and consequences of the social system of hamadryas baboons
Louise Barrett Whose life is it anyway? Maternal investment, infant developmental trajectories and life-‐history in baboons.
Drew Rendall The mute prince: what will lifting a half-‐century gag-‐order on baboon vocal communication reveal about the Machiavellian primate's mind?
Joan Silk Friends and/or allies: the function of social bonds among female baboons
Russell Hill Interpopulation analyses of baboon socioecology: past, present and future
PSGB Spring Meeting 2003 University of St Andrews, Fife Thursday 10th and Friday 11th April Organised by Gillian Brown and Klaus Zuberbuhler
Andrew Whiten 'Cultural Panthropology' Charles Snowdon 'Social learning in cooperative breeders' Christine Caldwell 'Can scroungers be learners? Social learning in common marmosets, Callithrix
jacchus' Yfke Van Bergen 'Marmosets go back to school: the role of food sharing in learning about food' Kevin Laland 'Necessity is the mother of primate invention: an examination of behavioural
innovation in primates' Simon Reader 'Innovation, climatic variability, and brain evolution' Antonio Moura 'The cognitive abilities of Cebus apella libidinosus: tool use and survival in a
harsh environment' Rebecca Harrison 'Can nonhuman ape limb preference be used in the study of the evolution of
brain complexity?' Louise Barrett 'From 'what now?' to 'what if?': quotidian cognition and cognitive control' Guillermina Echeverria-‐Lozano 'Reconciliation and post-‐conflict affiliation with former allies in
chacma baboons (Papio cynocephalus)' Bonaventura Majolo 'Post-‐conflict behaviour among Japanese macaque males' Friederike Range 'Recognition of third-‐party rank relationships in sooty mangabeys (Cercocebus
torquatus atys)' Emily Bethell 'Rank effects on chimpanzee social monitoring' Deborah Custance 'Testing for stimulus enhancement, emulation and imitation in pig-‐tail
macaques (Macaca nemestrina), gorillas (Gorilla gorilla), orang-‐utans (Pongo pygmaeus) and human children'
Victoria Horner 'Is chimpanzees social learning affected by observing errors?' Sarah Marshall-‐Pescini 'Social learning of nut-‐cracking behaviour in infant and juvenile
chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes)' Hannah Buchanan-‐Smith 'Colour vision and cognition in primates' Nick Blackwood 'Do age and sex affect responsiveness to novelty in common marmosets?' Paul Ashley 'Behavioural and physiological methods for the assessment of social status in pair
housed common marmosets (Callithrix jacchus)' Elizabeth Pimley 'Ranging patterns and social interactions of Allen's bushbabies (Galago alleni
cameronensis) in Cameroon' Togu Simorangkir 'The impact of offspring on the feeding and social behaviour of wild female
orangutans (Pongo pygmaeus)' Kirsten Pullen 'Enclosure use and dyadic interactions of a bachelor group of western lowland
gorillas (Gorilla gorilla gorilla)' Sandra Tranquilli 'Semantic content in black-‐and-‐white colobus (Colobus polykomos) vocal
communication' Hugo Rainey 'Hornbills can distinguish between alarm calls of Diana monkeys' Katja Liebal 'Chimpanzee gesture sequences' Bridget Waller 'Differential behavioural effects of 'smiling' and 'laughing' in chimpanzees (Pan
troglodytes)'
PSGB Winter Meeting 2002
Primate Evolution and Adaptation
Friday 29th November at the Zoological Society of London Meeting Rooms Organised by Sarah Elton and Todd C. Rae
SPEAKERS
Dan Gebo (Northern Illinois University) Hedgehogs, Tarsiers or Basal Anthropoids: Asian Eosimiids
Peter Andrews (Natural History Museum, London) Middle Miocene apes from Turkey
Robin Crompton (University of Liverpool) Origins of knuckle walking, vertical climbing and bipedalism: a new hypothesis on locomotor diversity in Hominoidea
Ian Tattersall (American Museum of Natural History, CUNY) will give the Osman Hill Memorial Lecture. Osman Hill Memorial Lecture
Kate E. Jones and Ann M. MacLarnon (Roehampton) Affording larger brains: what bats can tell us about primates
Christophe Soligo (Natural History Museum, London) Patterns of phyletic size change in Primates
Chris Dean (UCL) Variation in primate life history reflected through tooth development
Margaret Clegg (UCL) Comparing vocal tracts across primate species
Todd Rae (University of Durham) Paranasal pneumatization in fossil Cercopithecoidea and the evolution of the maxillary sinus
Paul O’Higgins (UCL) Growth and the evolution of primate craniofacial variation
PSGB Spring Meeting 2002
OXFORD BROOKES UNIVERSITY
15th -‐ 16th APRIL 2002 Organised by Simon Bearder and Paul Honess.
SPEAKERS
Phyllis Lee (University of Cambridge) Ethics, attitudes, and futures for primates: beyond bushmeat.
John Fa (Jersey Wildlife Preservation Trust) Ian Redmond / Ashley Leiman (Ape Alliance / Orang utan Foundation) GrASPing for Survival – the GReat Ape Survival Project of UNEP/UNESCO
David Chivers (University of Cambridge)The Conservation of Asian Apes
Elizabeth Williamson (University of Stirling) Conservation in Crisis: Current Status of Mountain Gorillas in the Virunga Volcanoes
Stephen Brend (PSGB Captive Care Working Party) Primate Sanctuaries: Animal Welfare or Conservation?
PSGB Winter Meeting 2001
Primates of the forests of Western Uganda. 5th December 2001 Meeting Rooms of the Zoological Society of London (London Zoo) Organised by Prof. Vernon Reynolds
V. Reynolds (University of Oxford) The Budongo chimpanzee population – D. Sheppard & J. Paterson (University of Calgary) Ecology of the Budongo Forest Redtail: patterns of habitat use and population density in primary and regenerating forest sites.
E. Stokes & R. Byrne (University of St Andrews) Coping with injury: feeding skills and adaptations of the chimpanzees of Budongo Forest, Uganda.
M. Tweheyo (Makerere University) Feeding habits of chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii), red tailed monkeys (Cercopithecus ascanius schmidti) and blue monkeys (Cercopithecus mitis stuhlmanni) on figs in Budongo Forest Reserve, Uganda.
K. Hill (Oxford Brookes University) Crop raiding by primates in Uganda; the cost to farmers and implications for conservation policy and practice.
K. Fawcett (University of Edinburgh) The nature of female chimpanzee social relationships in Budongo Forest, Uganda.
J. Wallis (University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center) Reproduction and sexual behaviour of the chiimpanzees (Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii) of the Budongo Forest.
J. Bosco Nkurununji (Makerere University) The feeding ecology of mountain gorillas in Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, Uganda.
C. Hashimoto, T. Furuichi and Y. Tashiro (Kyoto University and Meiji-‐Gakuin University) Factors influencing chimpanzee party size in the Kalinzu Forest.
M. Robbins (Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig) Socioecology of mountain gorillas in Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, Uganda.
A. N. Nsubuga, M. Robbins, L. Vigilant and C. Boesch (Makerere University, Uganda and Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig) A non-‐invasive genetic assessment of the social structure and male reproductive success of mountain gorillas in Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, Uganda.
L. Vigilant, U.-‐D. Immel and V. Reynolds (Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig; Oxford University) Genetic structure and paternity in a wild East African chimpanzee community (Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii) -‐
D. Quiatt (University of Colorado, Denver) Leaf-‐sponging by chimpanzees of the Sonso community.
M.A. Huffman, P. Pebsworth, C. Bakuneeta, S. Gotoh, C. Obbo, Z. Kiwede, J. Karamaji, and G. Muhumuza (Kyoto University, University of Colorado-‐Denver, Makerere University, Kampala and Budongo Forest Project, Uganda) Ecological Factors influencing the behavioural diversity of leaf-‐swallowing and other health maintenance aspects of the diet in chimpanzees of the Budongo and Mahale.
C. B. Stanford (University of S. California, Los Angeles) Behavioral ecology of chimpanzees in Bwindi Impenetrable National Park; preliminary evidence.
H. Notman (University of Calgary, Canada) The structure, meaning and function of chimpanzee pant hoots from the Budongo Forest, Uganda.
K. Arnold and A. Whiten (University of St. Andrews) Post-‐conflict Behaviour of Wild Chimpanzees of the Budongo Forest, Uganda.
N. Newton-‐Fisher (Budongo Forest Project, Masindi, Uganda) Hunting and carnivory by Budongo Forest chimpanzees.
PSGB Spring Meeting 2001
Bolton Institute, Bolton, Lancashire. 10 April 2001 Organised by Geoff Hosey
SPEAKERS
Gillian Brown (Cambridge): Food-‐sharing in family groups of common marmosets (Callithrix jacchus)
Lynda Birke (Chester Zoo): Effects of human visitors on the behaviour of captive Orang Utans
Roland Plesker (Paul-‐Ehrlich-‐Institut, Langen): Prima hedrons, puzzle feeders and television as environmental enrichment for captive African Green Monkeys
Vicky Melfi (Trinity College, Dublin): How does captive housing and husbandry affect feeding behaviour in Sulawesi Crested Black Macaque (Macaca nigra)
Rachel Day (Cambridge) & Kevin Laland: Innovation and social learning in callitrichid primates: applications for reintroduction techniques.
Andrew Smith (Stirling), Hannah Buchanan-‐Smith, Alison Surridge & Nick Mundy: Colour blindness: an advantage for prey capture in primates?
Marie Jacques (Bolton Institute): The development of play in captive Ring-‐tailed Lemurs
Nicola Koyama (Liverpool John Moores): Patterns of coalition formation among high and low ranking Japanese Macaques (Macaca fuscata)
Russell Hill (Durham): Predation sensitive foraging in Chacma Baboons (Papio cynocephalus ursinus)
Winter Meeting 2000
University of Surrey Roehampton and at Goldsmiths College, University of London.
European Federation for Primatology hosted by the Primate Society of Great Britain
27-‐29th November, 2000. Organised by Ann MacLarnon, Hilary Box, Hannah Buchanan-‐Smith, Betrand Deputte, , Phyllis Lee, Régine Vercauteren Drubbel.
Robert D. Martin (Universität Zürich-‐Irchel, Switzerland), Christophe Soligo (Universität Zürich-‐Irchel and The Natural History Museum, UK), Simon Tavaré (University of Southern California, USA), Oliver Will (University of Southern California, USA) and Charles Marshall (Harvard University, USA). New Light on the Dates of Primate Origins and Divergence.
Robin Dunbar (University of Liverpool, UK). The Evolution of the Social Brain.
Alan Dixson (Zoological Society of San Diego, USA). Primate Comparative Anatomy and the Evolution of Reproduction.
OSMAN HILL MEMORIAL LECTURE Christopher Pryce (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zürich, Switzerland). The Primate-‐Mother Relationship: Causes and Consequences.
Keith Hodges (Deutsches Primatenzentrum, Göttingen, Germany). Field Endocrinology: Studying Hormone-‐Behaviour Interactions of Primates in the Wild.
Peter Kappeler (Deutsches Primatenzentrum, Göttingen, Germany). Social and Genetic Structure of Polgynous Lemurs.
Volker Sommer (University College, UK) and Ulrich Reichard (Max-‐Plank Institut für Evolutionäre Anthropologie, Leipzig, Germany). Deconstructing Monogamy: Thailand's Gibbons at Khao Yai.
Filippo Aureli (John Moores University, Liverpool, UK). Managing Conflict in Group Living Primates.
Elisabetta Visalberghi (CRN, Roma, Italy). Learning what to Eat: The Role of Social Influences in Capuchins.
Jan van Hooff (Universiteit Utrecht, The Netherlands) and Susie Utami Atmoko (Universitas Nasional, Jakarta, Indonesia). Two of a Kind: Alternative Sexual Strategies of Adult Male Orangutans.
Ronald Noë (Université Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg, France). The Colobus of Tai forest: Three ways of Making a Living.
Annie Gautier-‐Hion (CNRS Université de Rennes, France). Conservation and SIV.
Caroline Tutin (Centre Internationale de Recherches Medicales de Franceville, Gabon, West Africa). Primates, People and Development: The Conservation Challenges in Gabon.
Mike Bruford (Cardiff University, Wales, UK). Molecular Ecology of Primates and the Impact of Non-‐ Invasive Techniques.
Spring Meeting 2000
Primates: our past, their future
A public meeting presented by The Primate Society of Great Britain in collaboration with The Natural History Museum, London.
SPEAKERS
Steve Mithen (University of Reading) The origins of language and culture
Robin Dunbar (University of Liverpool) The social life of monkeys and apes
Jonathan Kingdon (University of Oxford) The future of primates in the wild
Liz Rogers (University of Edinburgh) Primates in nature
John Fleagle (SUNY at Stony Brook) The evolution of primate adaptation
Mike Bruford (University of Cardiff) Primate genetics and evolution
Winter Meeting 1999
Mating & Social Systems of Old world Monkeys
Meeting Rooms of the Zoological Society of London, Regent's Park, London NW1 4RY.
1st December 1999
SPEAKERS
Robin Dunbar (University of Liverpool) The number of males in primate groups
Caroline Ross & Mairi Macleod (Roehampton Institute London) Copulatory behaviour in Old World monkeys: a comparative study
Mairi Macleod (Roehampton Institute London) Male-‐female association in samango monkeys
Anne Carlson and Lynne A. Isbell (University of Wisconsin) Variation in the mating patterns of patas monkeys.
Joanna Setchell & Alan Dixson (University of Cambridge) What is the Mating System of the Mandrill?
Kate Abernethy The secret life of the Mandrill: new data, new interpretations and a novel social system for Primates
Dave Hill (University of Sussex) Female preference, male mobility and troop membership among Japanese macaques -‐ Why stay when you can play away?
Volker Sommer (UCL) Holy but Selfish, the Socioecology of Indian Langurs
Ronald Noe (Université Louis-‐Pasteur & Max-‐Planck-‐Institut für Verhaltensphysiologie) Dispersal patterns of three West-‐African Colobus species
Spring Meeting 1999
Liverpool University 12-‐13th April 1999
SPEAKERS
R.I.M. Dunbar (Liverpool University) & Hiroko Kudo (Kanagawa Prefectural Museum of Natural History, Odawara, Japan) Neocortex size and the size of grooming cliques.
Juan Carlos Gómez (University of St.Andrews) Complex communication in primates: Can rudiments of referential/ostensive communication be found in non-‐human primates?
Filippo Aureli (Emory University, USA) Valuable relationships, anxiety and conflict resolution
Tracey H. Joffe (University College London) Bringing up baby: foetal and infant brain size ontogeny
Colleen M. Schaffner (St. John's University, USA) Clever decisions: male and female marmosets' responses to reproductive competitors.
A. Whiten (School of Psychology, University of St Andrews) Mind reading and social complexity in chimpanzees.
E.J. Stokes & R.W. Byrne (University of St Andrews) Coping with injury: feeding skills and adaptations of the chimpanzees of Budongo Forest, Uganda.
Joanne Martin (Bolton Institute) Does Human Rearing and Mother Separation Effect the Behaviour of Captive Chimpanzees?
Kathryn Hill (University of Liverpool) An observation of meat eating in captive orangutans.
Clea Assersohn & Andrew Whiten (University of St. Andrews) Food sharing between mother and infant chimpanzees in the wild: beggars can be choosers.
Mark J. Prescott & Hannah M. Buchanan-‐Smith (University of Stirling) Foraging efficiency in single-‐and mixed-‐species troops of tamarins.
R.A. Hill (University of Liverpool) It ain’t half hot mum! Behavioural responses of baboons to the thermal environment.
Mary Strate (University of Liverpool) The Communication Network of the Gelada Baboon, Theropithecus gelada
Tom Sambrook (University of Stirling) & Mark Taylor (University of Cambridge) Data For Free: How to estimate association between non-‐focal subjects.
Sarah Elton (University of Cambridge) Habitat at southern African Plio-‐Pleistocene palaeontological sites, as suggested by ecomorphological analysis of taxonomically unassigned cercopithecoid postcranial elements.
S. Caless (Bolton Institute) Seasonal variations of aggression in two species of lemur (Lemur catta and Eulemur fulvus rufus).
PSGB Winter Meeting 1998
Contributions of Zoos to Primate Biology and Conservation
THE MEETING ROOMS, ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON, REGENTS PARK Wednesday 2nd December 1998
SPEAKERS
Anna Feistner (JWPT) Conservation Biology of Primates: the role of zoos.
Alison Ames, Jim Cronin and Jeremy Keeling (Monkey World, Dorset) Pan Politics – a social orgy or occupational therapy??
Sonya Hill (University of Durham) ChimpanZoo – a Jane Goodhall Institute programme for research, enrichment and education.
Graham Catlow (Edinburgh Zoo) Exercising the mind and body: environmental enrichment for primates at Edinburgh Zoo.
Scott M Hardie, Hannah Buchanan-‐Smith and Mark J. Prescott (SPRG, University of Abertay, University of Stirling) Unravelling the behaviour of mixed-‐species tamarin groups: the role of Belfast Zoo.
Pam Citrynell (University of Exeter) Cognitive enrichment in captive spider monkeys.
Josep Call (University of Liverpool) The role of zoos in the study of cognitive abilities in primates.
Linda Van Elsacker (Antwerp Zoo) The Antwerp in-‐situ and ex-‐situ Bonobo Project: a review of the symbiosis between zoo biology, management and wildlife research.
Kristin Leus (Antwerp Zoo) Managing the international studbook for golden-‐headed lion tamarins: being one of the links in an in-‐situ , ex-‐situ conservation partnership for Leontopithecus.
Rob Young (De Montfort University) Zoos: Leading the way in implementing environmental enrichment.
Osman Hill Memorial Lecture given by Prof. Christopher Stringer (The Natural History Museum) The origin of our species.
PSGB Spring Meeting 1998
Conference Centre, Bristol Zoo Gardens, Clifton, Bristol, UK.
6th and 7th April 1998
SPEAKERS
Ian Redmond. Eating our Relatives -‐ Ethics, Ecology and Extinction.
John Robinson. Is Sustainable Hunting At All Possible?
Rebecca Ham. Regional Differences and Hunting Pressure on Chimpanzees in Guinea.
Steve BIake & Liz J. Rogers. Market Hunting in Congo.
Jeff Dupain. The Importance of Bushmeat in the Bonobo Distribution Area, Democratic Republic of Congo.
Carlos Peres. Assessing Impact of Hunting: Lessons from Standardized Line-‐Transect Censusing : from the Neotropics.
John E. Fa, Juan Enrique Garcia Yuste, Ramon Castelo & Jaime Perez del Val. The Bushmeat Trade and the Demise of Primates in Bioko Island: What are the Altematives?
Karl Ammann & Jonathan Pearce. WSPA's Campaign to Conttol The Bushmeat Trade.
Evan Bowen-‐Jones & Stephanie Pendry. What Threat does the Bushmeat Trade Present to Primates and How Can NGO's Help?
Andrew Whiten. Chimpanzee Cultures.
Julia Casperd. Reconciliation: Why bother?
Wilson R. Spironello. Primates as the main seed disperser of the most species-‐rich family (Sapotaceae) in central Amazonia.
Mark J. Prescott & Hannah Buchanan-‐Smith. Vertical Segregaton and Interspecific Competition in Mixed-‐Species Tamarin Troops.
Laura V. Harste. Social Contact and Distant Communication Vocalizations in Microcebus murinus.
M.M. Feeroz . Food and feeding behaviour of the pig-‐tailed macaque in semi-‐evergreen forest in Bangladesh.
Anne Gallagher-‐Thaw. Interactions between Two Newly Neighbouring Groups of Allen's Swamp Monkeys (Allenopithecus nigroviridis) at Edinburgh Zoo.
PSGB Winter Meeting 1997
NEW PERSPECTIVES ON NOCTURNAL PRIMATES
3 DECEMBER, 1997 Meeting Rooms of the Zoological Society of London, Regent's Park, London NW1 4RY. Organised by Dr Paul E. Honess
SPEAKERS
Simon Bearder (Oxford Brookes University) Redefining nocturnal diversity: Prosimian primates and other mammals
Caroline Harcourt The conservation of nocturnal primates
Deborah Curtis (Universitat Zurich-‐Irchel, Switzerland) A third activity pattern in primates: cathemerality in lemurs
Elke Zimmermann (Tieraerztliche Hochschule Hannover, Germany) Diversity and speciation in nocturnal Malagasy lemurs: an integrative approach
Laura Harste (University of Liverpool) Social cohesion in mixed-‐sex and all-‐male groups of mouse lemurs (Microcebus murinus): evidence from observations on tactile communication in captivity
Robin Crompton (University of Liverpool) Anomalous saltatory locomotor adaptation in two small-‐bodied, folivorous, nocturnal lemurs
Lon Alterman (Clarke College, Iowa, USA) Description and survey of three Nycticebus species in Bolikhamxay Province, Laos
Paul Honess (Oxford Brookes University) Taxonomic revision of the galagos: academic indulgence or practical necessity?
Caroline Ross (Roehampton Institute London) Strepsirhine infant care and life history evolution.
Michelle Bayes (Institute of Zoology, London) Phylogenetic relationships among the prosimians understanding primate origins and evaluating cryptic species
PSGB Spring Meeting 1997
ST. JOHN'S COLLEGE, UNIVERSITY OF DURHAM, DURHAM
24 MARCH 1997 Organised by Kate Hill
SPEAKERS
Laura V. Harste (University of Liverpool) Microcebus rufus feeding behaviour in the southeastern rain forest of Madagascar
T Nishihara (Kyoto University,Japan/Nouabale-‐Ndoki Project,WCS-‐Congo) Present progress with the training programme for young Congolese researchers in primate field studies.
S A Dzomambou (Nouabale-‐Ndoki Project, Congo) A phenological study of Mammea africana in relation to its utilization by gorillas, chimpanzees and other animals in the Nouabale-‐Ndoki National Park, Congo.
Catherine M. Hill (University of Durham) A conflict of interest between people and baboons: crop raiding in W. Uganda
Mairi Macleod (Roehampton Inst., London) Multiple Infanticide in Blue monkeys – successful reproductive strategy
David A. Hill (University of Sussex) In pursuit of pleasure? Primate grooming re-‐visited
Gemma Regan (University of Durham) Everything you always wanted to know about sexual dichromatism, but were too afraid to ask!
Todd Rae (University of Durham) and T. Koppe (Okayama University, Japan) Interpreting the size of the maxillary sinus in Old World monkeys.
Dawn Burnham (Manchester Metropolitan University) Comparative behavioural ecology of male and female patas monkeys.
Augusto Vitale (Instituto Superiore Sanita, Rome, Italy) The common marmoset as a model for the study of social learning.
Rebecca Harrison (University of Sheffield) Brain lateralisation and handedness in Hylobatids
PSGB Winter Meeting 1996
SOCIAL LEARNING AMONG MAMMALS
Joint Meeting with the Zoological Society of London and the Mammal Society
Friday 29 and Saturday 30 November 1996
The Zoological Society of London, Regent's Park, London NW1 4RY Organized by Dr Hilary O. Box and Professor Kathleen R. Gibson
SPEAKERS
H. BOX Social learning -‐ a functional approach
P. LEE & C. MOSS Social development, behavioural complexity and cognition among wild African elephants
J. & S. HEIMLICH-‐BORAN Social learning in cetaceans: hunting, hearing and hierarchies
V. JANIK Origins and implications of vocal learning in bottlenose dolphins
S. BEARDER Social learning in prosimians
B.J. KING New directions in the study of primate social learning
R. BYRNE The implications of social learning in great apes
K. GIBSON Human social learning in evolutionary perspective
S. SHENNAN & J. STEELE Cultural learning in hominid societies: a behavioural ecology approach
T. ROWELL The myth of peculiar primates (Osman Hill Lecture)
K. LALAND Exploring the dynamics of social transmission with Norway rats
G. WILKINSON & J. BOUGHMAN Social influences on foraging in bats
B. GILBERT Idiosyncratic social learning in bears: an ecocultural hypothesis
D. KLEIN Comparative social learning among Arctic herbivores-‐-‐the caribou, muskox and Arctic hare
D.M. BROOM Social transfer of information in domestic animals
R. SIBLY Evolutionary biology of skill and information transfer
J.M. PACKARD Social context of learning in wolf families: developmental perspectives
J.A.J. NEL Social learning in canids: an ecological perspective
A.C. KITCHENER Watch with mother: a review of social learning in the Felidae
J. GOODALL Cultural transmission amongst chimpanzees and conservation (Primate Society of Great Britain Award of the Conservation Medal )
PSGB Spring Meeting 1996
Ruskin Lecture Theatre, Roehampton Institute London, Whitelands College, London SW15 3SN
April 15 1996 Organised by Ann Maclarnon and Caroline Ross
SPEAKERS
Louise Barrett (University of Liverpool) Ranging behaviour of grey-‐cheeked mangabeys: Encounter rates, random walks and territorial defence
Daniel Stahl (German Primate Centre, Gottingen) Social tolerance and food competition in sooty mangabeys
David Hill (University of Sussex) Fast food, aggression and relationships in Japanese and rhesus macaques
Adriana Vella (University of Cambridge) Primate population models for conservation
Kate Jones (Roehampton Institute London) Life history evolution in bats. Optimal body sizes: Fact or fiction?
Helen Ball & Kate Hill (University of Durham) Are multi-‐fetus conceptions adaptive? An analysis of human populations
Tania King (University College London) Dental microwear in hominoids
Gillian Brown (University of Cambridge) The role of testosterone in the development of sex differences in behaviour of infant rhesus macaques
Frankie Kerridge (Bolton Institute) Enriching the behaviour of captive ruffed lemurs by making food presentation more realistic
Duncan Castles (University of St. Andrews) Baboon relationships: fighting, scratching, feelings.
Jo Thompson (University of Oxford) Preliminary report on bonobos (Pan paniscus) in a forest/savannah mosiac habitat
Jennifer Scott (University of Washington, USA) Female competition and dominance hierarchies among three groups of captive lowland gorillas