title: A multidisciplinary view on cultural primatology: behavioral innovations and traditions in Japanese macaques.
abstract: Cultural primatology (i.e., the study of behavioral traditions in nonhuman primates as a window into the evolution of human cultural capacities) was founded in Japan by Kinji Imanishi in the early 1950s. This relatively new research area straddles different disciplines and now benefits from collaborations between Japanese and Western primatologists. In this paper, we return to the cradle of cultural primatology by revisiting our original articles on behavioral innovations and traditions in Japanese macaques. For the past 35 years, our international team of biologists, psychologists and anthropologists from Japan, France, Sri Lanka, the USA and Canada, has been taking an integrative approach to addressing the influence of environmental, sociodemographic, developmental, cognitive and behavioral constraints on the appearance, diffusion, and maintenance of behavioral traditions in Macaca fuscata across various domains; namely, feeding innovation, tool use, object play, and non-conceptive sex.
authors: Department of Psychology, University of Lethbridge, 4401 University Drive, Lethbridge, AB, T1K3M4, Canada. jeanbaptiste.leca@uleth.ca.
authors: Jean-Baptiste
authors: JB
authors: Leca
authors: Department of Psychology, University of Lethbridge, 4401 University Drive, Lethbridge, AB, T1K3M4, Canada.
authors: Noëlle
authors: N
authors: Gunst
authors: Department of Psychology, University of Lethbridge, 4401 University Drive, Lethbridge, AB, T1K3M4, Canada.
authors: Amanda N
authors: AN
authors: Pelletier
authors: Department of Psychology, University of Lethbridge, 4401 University Drive, Lethbridge, AB, T1K3M4, Canada.
authors: Paul L
authors: PL
authors: Vasey
authors: Department of Sociology and Anthropology, University of Sri Jayewardenepura, Nugegoda, Sri Lanka.
authors: Charmalie A D
authors: CA
authors: Nahallage
authors: Department of Ecology and Social Behavior, Primate Research Institute, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan.
authors: Kunio
authors: K
authors: Watanabe
authors: Department of Ecology and Social Behavior, Primate Research Institute, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan.
authors: Michael A
authors: MA
authors: Huffman
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001522:Behavior, Animal; D003468:Cultural Evolution; D005247:Feeding Behavior; D005260:Female; D007564:Japan; D008251:Macaca / Q000502:physiology*; D008297:Male; D010988:Play and Playthings; D012726:Sexual Behavior, Animal; D053001:Tool Use Behavior
keywords: Behavioral tradition; Cultural primatology; Innovation; Japanese macaque