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OHASHI Gaku

Department / Course

School of General Education Liberal Arts Program (Humanities and Social Literacy)

College of Humanities

School of General Education Career Development Program

Job Associate Professor

Education and Degrees
	Kyoto University
	Graduate School, Division of Natural Science Kyoto University

Present specialized field
Primatology, Anthropology, African Area studies

Research, Studies
Ecology and Conservation of Wild Chimpanzees

Book and thesis
Books	From Bossou to the forests of Liberia. In: Matsuzawa T et al., editors. The Chimpanzees of Bossou and Nimba.,pp.313-321 2011
Books	Global positioning system (GPS) data of specific locations. In: Matsuzawa T et al., editors. The Chimpanzees of Bossou and Nimba.,pp.415 2011
Books	Green Corridor Project: Planting in the savanna between Bossou and Nimba. In: Matsuzawa T et al., editors. The Chimpanzees of Bossou and Nimba.,pp.361-370 2011
Books	Lineage of the Bossou Community as of January 2010. In: Matsuzawa T et al., editors. The Chimpanzees of Bossou and Nimba.,pp.404-405 2011
Books	Behavioral Repertoire of Tool Use in the Wild Chimpanzees at Bossou. In: Matsuzawa T, Tomonaga M, Tanaka M, editors. Cognitive Development in Chimpanzees.,pp.439-451 2006
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Academic conference presentation
2025/07/22	Cultural Variation in Wild Western Chimpanzee Meat Consumption: Evidence from Liberia and Guinea (30th Congress of the International Primatological Society)
2022	Buttress drumming with stones by wild chimpanzees in the forest of Kpala, Liberia. (IPS-SLAPrim2020 (Joint Meeting of the International Primatological Society and the Latin American Society of Primatologists))
2018	Camera trap surveys of wild chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes verus) in non-protected forest at Kpala, Liberia. (The 27th Congress of the International Primatological Society)
2016	Wild chimpanzees at Kpala using tools in various contexts. (The 26th Congress of the International Primatological Society)
2015	Stone tool use by wild chimpanzees at Kpala, Liberia. (PWS Annual symposium)
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Research topic, funded research, and department laboratory expense
2020/04 ～ 2023/03	Ecology and conservation of wild chimpanzees focusing on their stone tool use behaviors in West Africa Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
2016/04 ～ 2019/03	Conservation of wild animals living in SATOYAMA environment in West Africa Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
2008/06 ～ 2013/03	Primate foundation of cognitive development Grant-in-Aid for Specially Promoted Research