Michio Nakamura

Biographic Data

ID3693835
NAMEMichio Nakamura
GIVEN NAMESMichio
FAMILY NAMENakamura
SIGNATURENAKAMURA M
AFFILIATIONSKyoto University
ORCID0000-0001-9147-1331
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS35
TOTAL CITATIONS70
AUTHOR COUNT35
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1999
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX5

  • On the 100th anniversary of Jun’ichirō Itani’s birth

    Open AccessMichio NakamuraARTICLEPrimates2026

  • 日本霊長類学会の40年

    Open AccessMichio NakamuraARTICLEPrimate Research2026

  • Naming chimpanzees

    Open AccessMichio NakamuraARTICLEPan Africa News2024

  • Seasonal hunting for red colobus monkeys by Mahale chimpanzees

    Open AccessKazuhiko Hosaka, Michio Nakamura et al.ARTICLEPan Africa News2024

    With the spread of red colobus hunting by Mahale chimpanzees after the 1990s, hunting became more concentrated from August to October when the party size of chimpanzees increased. In particular, infant red colobus monkeys seemed to be caught more frequently from July to September compared to other age-group prey

  • Male chimpanzee age affects red colobus monkey hunting success

    Open AccessKazuhiko Hosaka, Michio Nakamura et al.ARTICLEPan Africa News2024

    We used data collected from 1976 to 2010 in Mahale, Tanzania, to explore longitudinal changes in red colobus hunting throughout the life histories of individual male chimpanzees. The relative frequency (z-scores) of successful red colobus hunts by male chimpanzees exhibited an inverted U-shaped distribution with age. Hunting success increases when males are between 8–20 years old. Males in adulthood (20–35 years of age) made the highest number of…

  • A lone chimpanzee mother–infant pair was indifferent to frequent leopard calls

    Open AccessMichio NakamuraARTICLEPan Africa News2024

    Leopards are potential predators of wild chimpanzees where the two species are sympatric. However, the relationship between these two species in Mahale, Tanzania, is not so simple: chimpanzees can be eaten by leopards, but they also sometimes attack the leopard cubs and even deprive a leopard of prey. This report describes a case in which a mother–infant pair of chimpanzees in Mahale showed no significant response to repeated leopard rasping call…

  • Evolution of Humanity

    Open AccessSarah E Detroy, Satoshi Hirata et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2024Cited by: 1

    In 1952, Kinji Imanishi wrote a thought-provoking essay on the nature of animal societies. In this essay, he applied the concept of human culture (which he referred to as Karuchua ) to nonhuman animals by giving different taxa a voice in a fable-like conversation, thereby aptly transcending speciesism. While thoroughly inspiring for scholars who have mastered the Japanese language, the essay was only known to non-Japanese-speakers by its English …

  • Greetings among female chimpanzees in Mahale, Tanzania

    Open AccessMichio NakamuraARTICLEAmerican Journal of Primatology2022

    Greeting behaviors have been reported in several primate species, although their forms and context may vary across species. Chimpanzees ( Pan troglodytes ) greet each other in various ways when they meet; however, many recent studies of greetings in chimpanzees have mostly focused on pant grunt vocalizations, which are often viewed as equivalent to submissive signals. As most greetings in chimpanzees are directed toward adult males, either from o…

  • Chimpanzee Culture Wars

    Open AccessMichio NakamuraARTICLEPan Africa News2021

  • Longitudinal changes in the targets of chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes) hunts at Mahale Mountains National Park

    Open AccessKazuhiko Hosaka, Michio Nakamura et al.ARTICLEPrimates2020

  • Chimpanzee Culture Wars

    Open AccessMichio NakamuraARTICLEPan Africa News2020

  • Wild chimpanzees deprived a leopard of its kill

    Open AccessMichio Nakamura, Kazuhiko Hosaka et al.ARTICLEJournal of Human Evolution2019Cited by: 6References: 50

  • A newborn infant chimpanzee snatched and cannibalized immediately after birth

    Open AccessHitonaru Nishie, Michio NakamuraARTICLEAmerican Journal of Physical…2018Cited by: 4References: 19

    OBJECTIVES: This study reports on the first observed case of a wild chimpanzee infant being snatched immediately after delivery and consequently cannibalized by an adult male in the Mahale Mountains, Tanzania. We demonstrate "maternity leave" from long-term data from the Mahale M group and suggest that it functions as a possible counterstrategy of mother chimpanzees against the risk of infanticide soon after delivery. MATERIALS AND METHODS: The s…

  • What volume of seeds can a chimpanzee carry in its body?

    Open AccessMichio Nakamura, Tetsuya Sakamaki et al.ARTICLEPrimates2017

  • An observation of a severely disabled infant chimpanzee in the wild and her interactions with her mother

    Open AccessTakuya Matsumoto, Noriko Itoh et al.ARTICLEPrimates2016

  • Lethal aggression in Pan is better explained by adaptive strategies than human impacts

    Open AccessM L Wilson, Christophe Boesch et al.ARTICLENature2014

  • Experimental Primate Archaeology

    W C Mcgrew, Takuya Matsumoto et al.ARTICLELithic Technology2014Cited by: 2References: 16

    Non-human primates using stones in nature provide a rare opportunity to compare directly the behaviour of use with the resulting lithic artifacts. Wild Japanese macaques (Macaca fuscata) customarily do “stone handling” (SH = spontaneous, solitary, non-instrumental and seemingly playful manipulation of stones). Ten populations of monkeys show at least 48 behavioral variants, 13 of which entail repeated stone-on-stone or stone-on-substrate contact …

  • Brief Communication

    Open AccessMichio Nakamura, Hitoshige Hayaki et al.ARTICLEAmerican Journal of Physical…2014Cited by: 6References: 22

    If a social‐living animal has a long life span, permitting different generations to co‐exist within a social group, as is the case in many primate species, it can be beneficial for a parent to continue to support its weaned offspring to increase the latter's survival and/or reproductive success. Chimpanzees have an even longer period of dependence on their mothers' milk than do humans, and consequently, offspring younger than 4.5–5 years old cann…

  • Ranging behavior of Mahale chimpanzees

    Open AccessMichio Nakamura, Nadia Corp et al.ARTICLEPrimates2013

  • Ontogeny of a Social Custom in Wild Chimpanzees

    Open AccessMichio Nakamura, Toshisada NishidaARTICLEAmerican Journal of Primatology2013

    Among cultural behaviors of chimpanzees, the developmental processes of complex skills involved in tool use are relatively well known. However, few studies have examined the ontogeny of social customs that do not require complex skills. Thus, in this study, we describe the developmental process of the grooming hand‐clasp (GHC), one of the well‐known social customs of chimpanzees at Mahale. We have collected 383 cases of GHC where at least one of …

  • A leopard ate a chimpanzee

    Nobuko Nakazawa, Shunkichi Hanamura et al.ARTICLEJournal of Human Evolution2013Cited by: 8References: 16

  • Obituary

    Open AccessJ C Mitani, Frans Β Μ De Waal et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2012References: 2

  • Prevalence of muzzle-rubbing and hand-rubbing behavior in wild chimpanzees in Mahale Mountains National Park, Tanzania

    Open AccessNadia Corp, Hitoshige Hayaki et al.ARTICLEPrimates2009

  • Interaction studies in Japanese primatology

    Open AccessMichio NakamuraARTICLEPrimates2009

  • William C. McGrew. The cultured chimpanzee

    Michio Nakamura