RASSL lecture: ‘Cultural Transmission in Primates’
View(s):The Royal Asiatic Society Sri Lanka (RASSL) monthly lecture on Tuesday, January 22 at 5 p.m. will be delivered by Michael A. Huffman, Associate Professor in Primatology at the Primate Research Institute of Kyoto University in Japan. He will speak on ‘Cultural Transmission in Primates: An Overview of 60 Years of Research’ at the Gamini Dissanayake Auditorium, No. 96, Ananda Coomaraswamy Mawatha, Colombo 7.
The lecture is open to all. Michael A. Huffman, an Associate Professor in Primatology at the Primate Research Institute of Kyoto University in Japan, received his MSc and DSc in Zoology from the Faculty of Science, Kyoto University. Over the last 35 years, Huffman has been conducting observational research on the Japanese macaque in both the wild and captivity. One of his long-term research programmes has been to follow the cultural transmission of a stone handling culture in Japanese macaques, and two other closely related species in the same taxonomic group.
In addition, he has ongoing research on other macaque species in Taiwan, Sri Lanka and Vietnam on various aspects of host-parasite ecology, population genetics, and disease transmission. He studied self-medicative behaviour in wild chimpanzees in Africa for 20 years
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