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 […]

For this quarter’s Hot Topic, we are featuring the work of Dr. Sarah Neal Webb, Jennifer Bridges, and Erica Thiele, who created, implemented, and evaluated a physical therapy (PT) program for chimpanzees at the Center for Chimpanzee Care in Bastrop, Texas, which is part of The MD Anderson Cancer Center’s Michale E. Keeling Center for […]