Division：Graduate School of Asian and African Area Studies Associate Professor
Main Research:Initiative 4 "Studies in the Potentialities of Local Culture, Institution and Technology"
Project Title：Indigenous Knowledge in Wildlife Conservation
Research Theme：
- Indigenous rural landscape management in the tropical West Africa
- Wildlife conservation in West African rural landscape
- Tool technology and resource seasonality in primate evolution
References：
- Yamakoshi, G (2004) Evolution of complex feeding techniques in primates: Is this the origin of great-ape intelligence? In A. E. Russon & D. Begun eds., The Evolution of Thought: Evolutionary Origins of Great Ape Intelligence. Cambridge University Press.
- Yamakoshi, G. (1998) Dietary responses to fruit scarcity of wild chimpanzees at Bossou, Guinea: Possible implications for ecological importance of tool use. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 106(3): 283-295.
2007 G-COE Research Outcome:
- Yamamoto, S, G. Yamakoshi, T. Humle & T. Matsuzawa. in press. Invention and modification of a new tool use behavior: Ant-fishing in trees by a wild chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes verus) at Bossou, Guinea. American Journal of Primatology.
List of Academic Presentations during 2007:
- Gen Yamakoshi “Ecology and History of Peri-Village Forest in the Forested Guinea, West Africa.” International Symposium, Forest Stewardship and Community Empowerment: Local Commons in Global Context. Kyoto International Community House, Kyoto, 11-12 October, 2007.
2008 G-COE Research Outcome:
- Yamakoshi G. (in press) The early history of Bossou chimpanzees before 1976: Implications for current research and conservation. In (T. Matsuzawa & Y. Sugiyama eds.) The Chimpanzees of Bossou and Nimba: A Cultural Primatology. Springer-Verlag Tokyo, Tokyo.
List of Academic Presentations during 2008:
- Gen Yamakoshi “Nos voisins Chimpanzés: Ecologie de la coexistence avec les hommes et les chimpanzés au village en Guinée” Symposium on Comparative Cognitive Science 2008 “Primate Origins of Human Mind” / Workshop for the 150th anniversary of the French-Japanese relations Day 3. Yoshida Izumidono, Kyoto University, May 31, 2008
- Gen Yamakoshi & Kathelijne Koops “Life history profiles of female chimpanzees in Bossou over 40 years” XXII Congress of the International Primatological Society. Edinburgh, UK, August 3-8, 2008.
2009 G-COE Research Outcome:
- Hockings KJ, Yamakoshi G, Kabasawa A, Matsuzawa T. (2009) Attacks on Local Persons by Chimpanzees in Bossou, Republic of Guinea: Long-term Perspectives. American Journal of Primatology 71: 1-10.
List of Academic Presentations during 2009:
- Gen Yamakoshi “Ecological functions and evolution of primate tool behavior” “Understanding Tool Use : Multidisciplinary Perspectives on the Cognition and Ecology of Tool Using Behaviors”, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany, December 02-05, 2009
2010 Research Outcome:
- Carvalho S, Yamanashi Y, Yamakoshi G, Matsuzawa T (2010) Bird in the hand: Bossou chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) capture West African wood-owls (Ciccaba woodfordi) but not to eat. Pan African News 17(1): 6-9.
List of Academic Presentations during 2010:
- Gen Yamakoshi "Oil-palm-based landscape and chimpanzees in West Africa: Can chimpanzee be a weed species?” International Workshop "Perspectives on human-nature relationships in Africa: Interrelations between epistemology and practice” Kyoto, Japan, August 19, 2010.
- Gen Yamakoshi “Oil palms and bush fallow in Tropical West Africa: Implications for semi-domestication and wildlife conservation” The International Workshop on “Incentive of Local community for REDD and semi-domestication of non-timber forest products (Global Environment Research Fund: E-1002, Ministry of Environment: FY2010-2012)” Kyoto University、Japan, March 5-6, 2011 (presentation on March 5)