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Preliminary Programme from 10-13 September 2013
Please see list of abstracts at the bottom of this page.
Tuesday 10 th September 2013 - venue: Zoo, Antwerp City Centre
15:00-17:00 Registration and opportunity to see the zoo
17:00 Welcome Word by Prof. Dr. Herwig Leirs, Universiteit Antwerpen
17:15 Opening Speech – speaker to be confirmed
18:15-19:30 Welcome Reception
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European Federation for Primatology meeting 2013
Wednesday 11 th September 2013 - venue: Hof Van Liere, University of Antwerp, Antwerp City Centre
Large Aula Room 1 Room 2
08:45 Keynote speaker - Barbara Fruth
09:45-12:40 Symposium 1 : (Jeroen Stevens)
80 years of Pan paniscus
12:40-14:00 Lunch
14:00 Keynote speaker - Karen Isler
15:15-15:55 Symposium 1 :
80 years of Pan paniscus (continued)
16:20-18:20
Symposium 3 : (Fany Brotcorne & Marie-Claude Huynen)
Coexisting at the human-primate interface: a real modern
challenge
Symposium 2 : (Tatyana Humle & Steve Unwin)
Advances in primate rehabilitation and
reintroduction
Symposium 4 : (Katherine Cronin & Liesbeth
Sterck)
Tolerance and Inhibition
Symposium 4:
Tolerance and Inhibition
(continued)
Free
session
Free
session
Free
session
Thursday 12 th September 2013 - venue: Hof Van Liere, University of Antwerp, Antwerp City Centre
Large Aula Room 1 Room 2
08:30 Keynote speaker - Susannah Thorpe
09:45-12:40 Symposium 5 : (Kristiaan D’Août)
Functional Morphology: primate locomotion
12:40-14:00 Lunch
14:0016:50 Symposium 7 : (Evie Vereecke & Tracey Kivell)
Primates and their hands: behavioural, experimental
and morphological perspectives on the primate hand
16:50-20:00 Poster Session and beer trail/social session
Symposium 6 : (Brandon Wheeler & Julia Fischer)
Functional Reference and Pragmatics in Primate
Communication
Symposium 8 : (Laurence Culot & Adeline Serckx)
From great apes to small tamarins: Role of primates in
forest regeneration
Free
session
Free
session
Friday 13 th September 2013 - venue: Hof Van Liere, University of Antwerp, Antwerp City Centre
Large Aula Room 1 Room
2
08:30 Keynote speaker - Joël Fagot
09:45-10:25 Symposium 9 : (Adrien Meguerditchian)
What primate communication can tell us about the origins of
language
11:00-12:40 Symposium 9 :
What primate communication can tell us about the origins of
language (continued)
Free session
Symposium 10 : (Kathelijne Koops, Elisabetta
Visalberghi & Carel van Schaik)
The ecology of culture: The influence of ecology and
innovation, social learning, and thus culture
12:40-14:00 Lunch
14:00-16:00 Free session Symposium 10 :
The ecology of culture: The influence of ecology and
innovation, social learning, and thus culture
16:45-17:45 Keynote speaker - Karen Strier
17:45 Closing address
19:00 Congress Dinner
(continued)
Details on symposia:
(please note the symposia are all full; abstracts submitted from 1/2/2013 onwards will be scheduled as free presentations)
Wednesday 11 th September 2013
Symposium 1: 80 years of Pan paniscus
Free
session
Free
session
Free
session
· Organiser :
o Je roe n M.G. Ste ve ns (CRC)
· Abstract :
Whe n Ha l l Cool i dge e l e va te d the bonobo from a s ubs pe ci e s of Pan satyrus to a ful l s pe ci e s s ta tus i n 1933, ve ry l i ttl e wa s known a bout thi s “Pi gmy chi mpa nze e from
South of the Congo Ri ve r”. Cool i dge re vi e we d the e vi de nce of the ti me on bonobo morphol ogy, ra ngi ng, cha ra cte r, i nte l l i ge nce a nd voca l i s a ti ons . Me a nwhi l e 80 ye a rs
ha ve gone by a nd we ha ve a ccumul a te d more knowl e dge on thi s fa s ci na ti ng s pe ci e s . In thi s s ympos i um we bri ng toge the r re ce nt s tudi e s tha t ha ve s he d l i ght on
di ffe re nce s or s i mi l a ri ti e s be twe e n chi mpa nze e s a nd bonobos . We us e a broa d a pproa ch a nd di s cus s a wi de va ri e ty of topi cs , from e col ogy, be ha vi our to ge ne ti cs
a nd the l i nks be twe e n the s e fa ctors
Symposium 2: Advances in primate rehabilitation & reintroduction
· Organisers:
o Ta tya na Huml e (Uni ve rs i ty of Ke nt)
o Ste ve Unwi n (Che s te r Zoo)
· Abstract:
Hi s tori ca l l y, re ha bi l i ta ti on a nd re i ntroducti on of pri ma te s ha s be e n ongoi ng a t l e a s t s i nce the l a te 1960’s . Efforts ha ve mos tl y focus e d on s pe ci e s on the bri nk of
e xti ncti on a nd ha ve be e n ba s e d on s ucce s s ful ca pti ve bre e di ng progra ms or on e nda nge re d s pe ci e s wi th s ubs ta nti a l numbe rs of i ndi vi dua l s be i ng ca re d for i n
s a nctua ri e s l oca te d i n mos t ca s e s i n ra nge countri e s . The l a tte r i ncl ude vi cti ms of the pe t tra de a nd/or ori gi na te from popul a ti ons e xpe ri e nci ng e ve r i ncre a s i ng
a nthropi c pre s s ure s on the i r na tura l ha bi ta t. The i r re cove ry a nd ca re ofte n e nta i l s re ha bi l i ta ti on a i me d a t promoti ng the i r ps ychol ogi ca l we l l be i ng a nd the i r
s pe ci e s -typi ca l be ha vi oura l re pe rtoi re . Thi s proce s s i s pri mordi a l whe n pre pa ri ng i ndi vi dua l ca ndi da te s for re l e a s e . As wi l d popul a ti ons of a n i ncre a s i ng numbe r of
pri ma te s pe ci e s a re ra pi dl y de cre a s i ng throughout the i r ra nge , the re l e a s e of ca pti ve i ndi vi dua l s i nto the i r na tura l ha bi ta t, pre fe ra bl y i nto the i r hi s tori c ge ogra phi c
ra nge , i s i ncre a s i ngl y pe rce i ve d a s a n a cce pta bl e cons e rva ti on opti on. Such proje cts ha ve to da te conce rne d a ra nge of non-huma n pri ma te s pe ci e s ra ngi ng from
l e muri forme s , ca l l i tri chi ds , col obi ne s to homi noi ds . Thi s s ympos i um a i ms to s ti mul a te de ba te a nd e xcha nge of i de a s on the di ffe re nt cha l l e nge s of pri ma te
re ha bi l i ta ti on a nd re i ntroducti on, whi l e a l s o hi ghl i ghti ng the cons e rva ti on va l ue of s uch i ni ti a ti ve s .
· Topics:
o Cons e rva ti on; re ha bi l i ta ti on
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