MASAYA TAMURA

INSTITUTION

Kyoto University

ACADEMIC FIELD & RESEARCH

• Primatology
• Study subjects: Wild western lowland gorillas and Japanese macaques
• Study topics: Male-immature social relationships and Feeding techniques

RESEARCH FIELD (FIELD SITE, LOCATION OF RESEARCH)

• Moukalaba-Doudou National Park, Gabon
• Kinkazan Island, Japan

MAIN PUBLICATIONS/PAPERS

• Tamura M & Akomo-Okoue EF (2021). Hand preference in unimanual and bimanual coordinated tasks in wild western lowland gorillas (Gorilla gorilla gorilla) feeding on African ginger (Zingiberaceae). American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 175, pp 531–545.
• Tamura M (2020). Extractive foraging on hard-shelled walnuts and variation of feeding techniques in wild Japanese macaques (Macaca fuscata). American Journal of Primatology, 82, e23130.
• Tamura M (2016). A case study of long-term separation and rejoining of an adult female in a wild troop of Japanese macaques (Macaca fuscata). Primate Research, 32, pp 51-59.

COMMENTS

I will do my best in both fieldwork and paper writing.

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