PSGB Spring Meeting 1997

24 MARCH 1997

ST. JOHN'S COLLEGE,

UNIVERSITY OF DURHAM, DURHAM

PROGRAMME

9.30 Registration and poster set-up

Morning session chaired by Helen Ball

10.00 Welcome

10.05 Microcebus rufus feeding behaviour in the southeastern rain forest of Madagascar
Laura V. Harste, Department of Psychology, University of Liverpool; Patricia C. Wright, Department of Anthropology, SUNY Stonybrook; Jukka Jernvall, Institute of Biotechnology, University of Helsinki

10.25 Present progress with the training programme for young Congolese researchers in primate field studies.
T Nishihara, Kyoto University,Japan/Nouabale-Ndoki Project,WCS-Congo

10.45 A phenological study of Mammea africana in relation to its utilization by gorillas, chimpanzees and other animals in the Nouabale-Ndoki National Park, Congo.
S A Dzomambou, Nouabale-Ndoki Project, Congo

11.05 Poster session and coffee

11.35 A conflict of interest between people and baboons: crop raiding in W. Uganda
Catherine M. Hill, Department of Anthropology, University of Durham

11.55 Multiple Infanticide in Blue monkeys -- a succuessful reproductive strategy
Mairi Macleod, School of Life Sciences, Roehampton Inst., London.

12.15 In pursuit of pleasure? Primate grooming re-visited
David A. Hill, School of Biological Sciences, University of Sussex

12.35 LUNCH

Afternoon session chaired by Kate Hill

2.00 Everything you always wanted to know about sexual dichromatism, but were too afraid to ask!

Gemma Regan, Department of Anthropology, University of Durham

2.20 Interpreting the size of the maxillary sinus in Old World monkeys.

Todd Rae, Department of Anthropology, University of Durham, and T. Koppe, Department of Anatomy, Okayama University, Japan

2.40 Comparative behavioural ecology of male and female patas monkeys.

Dawn Burnham, Manchester Metropolitan University

3.00 TEA

3.30 The common marmoset as a model for the study of social learning
Augusto Vitale, Section of Comparative Psychology, Instituto Superiore Sanita, Rome, Italy

3.50 Brain lateralisation and handedness in Hylobatids
Rebecca Harrison, Department of Archaeology and Prehistory, University of Sheffield

4.10 Close

POSTERS

Observational learning of artificial fruit processing in rehabilitant orang-utans
Tom Sambrook, Department of Anthropology, University of Durham; Andrew Whiten & Deborah Custance, School of Psychology, University of St. Andrews.

Evidence of imitated maternal behaviour in two captive orangutan adolescent females
Kathryn Hill, Department of Archaeology and Prehistory, Univ. Sheffield

Heritability of personality -- familial similarities among chimpanzees
Lindsay E. Murray, Department of Biological Anthropology, University of Cambridge

Ontogeny and forms of play in captive Ring-tailed Lemurs.
Marie Jaques, Bolton Inst. Technology

Primate bipedalism
Christian Sampson, Department of Anthropology, University of Durham

Post-conflict behaviour in Spectacled Langurs (Trachypithecus obscurus).
Kate Arnold, Department of Anthropology, University of Durham.

Registration fees: £5 members, £10 non-members, £1 student members, £3 student non-members.

For further information please contact:

Kate Hill, Tel. 0191 374 7206, e-mail c.m.hill@durham.ac.uk, Department of Anthropology, University of Durham, 43 Old Elvet, Durham, DH1 3HN

To leave a message for Kate, tel: 0191 374-2841

Accomodation:

We can provide bed and breakfast at the college for £17.00 per night. Please contact Kate to arrange this.