For the first quarter of 2024, ASP’s Hot Topics in Primate Welfare is featuring the research of Negin Valizadegan, who won the ASP Primate Welfare Award in 2022 for her project titled: “Blood microbiome compositions in humans and captive non-human primates and their variations in sensitivity to bacterial molecules.” Dr. Valizadegan has a PhD in […]

For this quarter of Hot Topics in primate welfare, we are featuring the work of the two winners of the ASP Primate Welfare Award from the 45th annual meeting in Reno, Nevada: Dr. Natalie Castell and Dr. Andrew Haertel. Dr. Natalie Castell Dr. Natalie Castell, a postdoctoral fellow at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, won […]

Mark your calendars and get your abstracts ready – the 46th meeting of the American Society of Primatologists is September 8-11, 2024 in Riviera Maya, Mexico! Check out all the meeting details on the ASP 2024 Meeting page and get information about symposium/workshop/roundtable proposals as well as podium and poster presentation abstract submission on the […]

On November 6, 2023, the ASP Board of Directors approved a resolution outlining the Society’s position on the conservation of wild primate populations. The text of the resolution follows: The American Society of Primatologists (ASP) is a scientific organization whose purpose is to encourage the discovery, exchange, and dissemination of information regarding nonhuman primates (hereafter […]

For this quarter of Hot Topics in primate welfare, we are featuring the research of Dr. Raquel Costa, Postdoctoral Fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science at the Japan Monkey Center. Dr. Costa studies gorilla-human interactions in the Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, Uganda. In the work we are featuring here, Dr. Costa […]

ASP is adopting an edited version of American Association of Biological Anthropology (AABA) 2023 policy for the sharing of intellectual property and social media use. Intellectual Property and Social Media Policy for ASP Meetings Materials prepared by the presenters together with the content of all oral presentations and poster presentations at the ASP Annual Meeting, […]

For the Spring 2023 Hot Topics in Primate Welfare feature, we interviewed Dr. Marietta Danforth and Dr. Hayley Murphy of the Great Ape Heart Project (GAHP). Dr. Danforth was the project manager since the program’s inception in 2010 and took over as project director in 2021 when the project moved to the Detroit Zoological Society […]

The American Society of Primatologists takes any allegations of misconduct seriously. We intend to take a leadership role by outlining issues of appropriate and inappropriate professional behavior and developing a code of best practices that can be used to promote positive and ethical scientific collaboration and mentorship across our discipline. Anyone who becomes aware of […]

For this quarter of Hot Topics in Primate Welfare, we are featuring the research of Dr. Andrew Halloran, the Director of Chimpanzee Behavior and Care at Save the Chimps in Florida. Dr. Halloran specializes in chimpanzee welfare and works to create personalized care plans to enhance the care and welfare of the more than 200 […]

Josue Alejandro received the Primate Welfare Award for his project titled: “Behavioral and fecal glucocorticoid profiles in the formation of all female social groups of pygmy slow lorises (Nycticebus pygmeaus).” Mr. Alejandro is a doctoral student at the Kyoto University Primate Research Institute in Japan. His award-winning work focuses on socially housing female pygmy slow […]