MATSUSAKA Takahisa

PERSONAL INFORMATION

Status: Graduate Student (doctoral course)
- 1: Emotional communication in immature chimpanzees (play panting, separation calls...)
- 2: Object play and development of tool-using behavior in chimpanzees
Study site: Mahale Mountains National Park, Tanzania
Subjects : Immature chimpanzees of M group of Mahale

Matsusaka T. 2004. When does play-panting occur during social play in wild chimpanzees? Primates 45:221-229. URL--- http://www.springerlink.com/index/10.1007/s10329-004-0090-z
Kutsukake N, Matsusaka T. 2002. Incident of intense aggression by chimpanzees against an infant from another group in Mahale Mountains National Park, Tanzania. American Journal of Primatology 58:175-180. URL--- http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/abstract/101524607/ABSTRACT
Matsusaka T, Kutsukake N. 2002. Use of Leaf-sponge and leaf-spoon by juvenile chimpanzees at Mahale. Pan Africa News 9 (1):6-9. URL--- http://mahale.web.infoseek.co.jp/PAN/9_1/9(1)-04.html

Matsusaka T, Kabumbe AK. 2004 A preliminary report on the "lost child" and the isolation calls in wild chimpanzees at Mahale. An International Symposium: African Great Apes: Evolution, Diversity and Conservation. Kyoto, Japan, March 2004.
Matsusaka T. 2001. A field study of "laughter" in Mahale Chimpanzees. Hayashibara Forum 2001/The 4th International SAGA Symposium, Okayama, Japan, November 2001.

1996-2000 Faculty of Science, Kyoto University (B.Sc.)
2000-2002 Department of Zoology, Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University (M.Sc.)
2002-present Department of Zoology, Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University (Doctoral course)

Postal address: Laboratory of Human Evolution Studies, Department of Zoology, Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University, Sakyo, Kyoto, 606-8502, JAPAN
Tel:+81-75-7534085
Fax:+81-75-7534115
e-mail: matsusak + @ + jinrui.zool.kyoto-u.ac.jp