This is the website of Animal Welfare Information Center (AWIC) of United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). It provides information necessary for environmental enrichment for animals when you keep them for research or investigation.

This is the website of bibliographical information on animal welfare for captive primates, published by Viktor & Annie Reinhardt of Animal Welfare Institute in the United States of America.

This is the website of Wisconsin National Priamte Research Center, one of the seven primate reseach center located in the Unites States of America. This institute is supported by National Institutes of Health (NIH) and National Center for Research Resources (NCRR). The primate center is based in the graduate school of University of Wisconsin-Madison.

This is the website of Yerkes National Primate Center, one of the seven primate reseach center located in the Unites States of America. It was established in Emory University, named after Robert Mearns Yerkes.

This is the website of Duke Lemur Center, based in Duke University in the United States of America. This center is famous for breeding of endangered species and especially the largest collection of lemur samples in the world.

Leda Cosmides and John Tooby preside over the Center for Evolutionary Psychology in University of California, Santa Barbala in the United States of America. It provides infromation concerning evolutionary psychology including references, topics, recent controversies, Human Behavior and Evolution Society, the tide in evolutionary psychology,etc.

This is the research institute for evolutionary anthropology which Max Planck Society established in Leibzig, Germany in 2000. It shows interdisciplinary approach: Department of Primatology (presided over by Christophe Boesch), Linguistics (by Bernard Comrie), Human Evolution (by Jean-Jacques Hublin), Evolutionary Genetics (by Svante Pääbo) and Developmental and Comparative Psychology (by Michael Tomasello).

This is the website by Andrew Whiten in the Department of Psychology, University of St Andrews. The article on wild chimpanzee cultures by Whiten and his colleagues was published in Nature in June, 1999 (Whiten et al. [1999] Cultures in chimpanzees. Nature, 399, 682-685. [DOI:10.1038/21415]). This website includes a datebase of information on the cultural variation of wild chimpanzees over Africa underlying the article.

Frans B. M. de Waal presides over the Living Links Center, which was established in Yerkes National Primate Center, Emory University in 1997. They do comparative research on human and non-human great apes from the perspectives of social life, ecology, cognition, neural mechanism, molecular genetics. Their goal is to reconstruct human evolution to confirm the similarity and difference between human and non-human great apes as well as to enlighten the general public about their welfare and the conservation of wild habitats.

This is the area information and bibliography on wild chimpanzees, bonobos, and gorillas, offered by Jim Moore in University of California, San Diego. You can easily grasp the current cirmunstances of the research on ecology and behavior of African great apes.

The Chimpanzee and Human Communication Institute (CHCI) is presided over by Roger & Deborah Fouts in Departmenf pf Psychology, Central Washington University in the United States of America. There are four adult chimpanzee who mastered the American Sign Language. This institute got famaous for Washoe Pan satyrus, who mastered the language as well in the project lead by Robert Allen & Beatrice Tugenhat Gardner but died in 2007. The website gives detailed information on the communication with ASL between a chimpanzee and a human or between chimpanzees.

The Language Research Center is a institute associated to the Department of Psychology, Geogia State University in the United States of America. It is presided by Duane M. Rumbaugh. It got famous for ape language studies of the bonobos Kanzi and Panbanisha, a project lead by E. Sue Savage-Rumbaugh and her coworkers.

The Primate Cognition Laboratory is that of Herbert S. Terrace in the Department of Psychology, Columbia University in the United States of America. Terrace is famous as an original proposer of errorless learning and also for ape language studies with the chimpanzee Nim Chimpsky. The laboratory investigates serial learning, memory, chunks, concepts of numbers and objects, etc. in macaque monkeys and pigeons.

The Cognitive Evolution Laboratory is that presided over by Marc D. Hauser, who is a primatologist and also an ethologist, in the Department of Psychology, Harvard University in the United States of America. They focus on cotton-top tamarins, rhesus macaques, chimpanzees, and other animals. Hauser is an author of Evolution of communication (1996. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press. [ISBN13:978-0-262-08250-1] [Publisher's website]), Moral minds: How nature designed our universal sense of right and wrong (2006. New York: Ecco. [ISBN13:978-0-06-078070-8] [Publisher's website]).

The Behavioural Biology Group in Utrecht University in the Netherlands is a laboratory lead by Johan J. Bolhuis now, and by Jan Antoon Reinier Alex Maria van Hooff in the past, who is famous for the studies of chimpanzees in the Arnhem colony. They have a tradition of ethological studies developed by Nicolaas Tinbergen, and also do socioecological research. The laboratory is also famour for research of wild orangutans and macaque monkeys in Indonesia.

This is the website of the Laboratory of Robert G. Cook, who advocates comparative animal cognition in the Department of Psychology, Tufts University in the United States of America. The website offers exhaustive electronic references on comparative cognitive science although He is the expert of visual cognition and discriminative learning of pigeons. He is also diligent about education, and provides unique educational materials named Exploring the animal mind. These are Windows-based interactive software modules, so with the modules students can study basic principles of animal cognition and learning by themselves.

This is the personal website of William H. Calvin, a neuroscientist, in University of Washington in the United States of America. He does not only specializes in the investigations of single neurons but also is interested in evolution and especially in such mental processes as language, music, and logic from an evolutionary perspective. The website offers his recent publications as well as the topics related to language, evolution, and brain from the perspective of his interest.

The Dolphin Institute is located on the outskirts of Waikiki, Oahu Island, Hawaii, the United States of America, where it is quite easy to get around. The institute got famous for reserach on the comprehension of sign language by Akeakamai, a dolphin, who died in 2003. See this website for the laboratory of Louis M. Herman, who studies the cognition and behavior of dolphins and humpback whales in University of Hawaii at Manoa.

This website introduces the institute for cognitive neuroscience in Marseille, France. The goal is to investigate underlying cognitive processes and their neural mechanisms to understand the human behavior. INCM is the French abbreviation of the name of the institute. It has one section for comparative cognitive studies, lead by Joël Fagot.

This website offers the electronic kits for elementary experiments of cognitive psychology. Gregory Francis and his colleagues and students in Purdue University produced this online laboratory. It consists of various experiments including visual search, apparent motion, Stroop effect, Simon effect, signal detection, mental rotation, memory span, serial position, Monty Hall, etc. All were programed in Java language. Francis and others also offer a similar online laboratory on social psychology, Social Psych Lab ™: Wadsworth social psychology online laboratory.

This is the website of one of the Global COE Programs of Kyoto University. The Global COE (Center of Excellence) Programs are a project promoted by Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology. The goal of this program is to form a research site where biodiversity is investigated in the perspectives from genomes to ecosystems. The departments which play a central role are the Division of Biological Science of the Graduate School of Science, the Center for Ecological Research, and the Primate Research Institute, Kyoto University.

This is the website of one of the Global COE Programs of Kyoto University. The Global COE (Center of Excellence) Programs are a project promoted by Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology. The goal of this program is to form a research site to investigate what it is like to revitalize education for dynamic hearts and minds as mental problems have recently become more serious. The researchers who organized the Global COE Program are the specialists in education or psychology from the Graduate School of Education, the Graduate School of Letters, the Graduate School of Humand and Evironmental Studies, the Center for the Promotion of Excellence in Higher Education, and the Kokoro Research Center.

The Primate Research Institute is the sole national institute for primate research in Japan, which is established in Kyoto University, but is located in Inuyama City, Aichi Prefecture, not in Kyoto Prefecture. Our section, i.e., the Section of Language and Intelligence is one of the sections of this institute. It has the cooperative research program for visiting researchers. The institute does interdisciplinary research on primates including humans. The website includes the Chimpanzee Ai's Website (the comparative cognitive studies of chimpanzee intelligence, e.g., a summary of the Ai Project and the baby books of the mother chimpanzees), the Chimpanzee World (the ecology and behavior of wild chimpanzees in Bossou, Guinea and other research sites in Africa), and the Bonobos (the research of wild bonobos by Takayoshi Kano and his colleagues in Wamba, the Democratic Republic of the Congo).

The HOPE Project is a project for cutting-edge research sites lead by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS). This is a cooperative project of Max Planck Society in Germany and the JSPS to investigate the primate origin of human evolution. The actual research cooperation are the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology and Primate Research Institute, Kyoto University in Japan.

This shows an overview on the self-medication of wild chimpanzees. The group is lead by Michael Alan Huffman in the Primate Research Institute, Kyoto University. The website offers a detailed references on self-madication by animals and interactions between animals and parasites.

The Kokoro Research Center is one of the facilities of Kyoto University, located in Kyoto City, Kyoto Prefecture, Japan. The goal is to establish a site for interdiscilinary research of various sciences concerning hearts and minds including psychology, cognitive science, neuroscience, and liberal arts.

This is the website of the laboratory lead by Juichi Yamagiwa in Kyoto University, located in Kyoto City, Kyoto Prefecture, Japan. The world of chimpanzees shows the achivements from the long-term research in Mahale, Tanzania. It also provides detailed information on Japanese macaques in Yakushima and Arashiyama. The website offers the introduction of books on human evolution. The labotatory was established by Junichiro Itani. The tradition has been still maintained by outstanding researchers like Toshisada Nishida, Juichi Yamagiwa, and Shigeru Suzuki.

In Japanese. The laboratory advocates comparative cognitive science in the Department of Psychology, Graduate School of Letters, Kyoto University, located Kyoto City, Kyoto Prefecture, Japan. The studied animals cover various species, primates, birds, rodents, and dogs. Fujita Kazuo is the author of the standard textbook on comparative cognitive science written in Japanese, Hikaku-ninchi-kagaku e no shōtai: Kokoro no shinka-gaku [An introduction to comparative cognitive science: Evolutionary studies on minds] (1998. Nakanishiya Shuppan. [ISBN13:978-4-88848-437-4] [Publisher's website]). They hold a seminar named Dōbutsu banbanzai no kai, where recent interesting articles on comparative cognition are introduced.

In Japanese. The laboratory does research on comparative cognitive science and comparative cognitive neuroscience in the Department of Psychology, Keio University, located in Minato Ward, Tokyo Metropolice, Japan. A variety of animal species are involved in their research: From invertebrates to humans including birds, rodents, and fish.

This is the website of the laboratory lead by Toshikazu Hasegawa in University of Tokyo in Meguro Ward, Tokyo Metropolis, Japan. The research covers various fields like behavioral ecology, evolutionary psychology, and developmental psychology. The website offers the introduction of the memebers and the information on evolutionary psychology.

The ATR (Advanced Telecomunications Research Institute International), located in Keihanna Science City, Japan, has eight laboratories, the Spoken Language Communication Research Laboratory, the Adaptive Communications Research Laboratory, the Wave Engineering Laboratory, the Computational Neuroscience Laboratory, the Knowledge Science Laboratory, the Intelligent Robotics and Communication Laboratory, the Cognitive Information Science Laboratory, and the media Information Science Laboratory. The ATR is a large research site for electric communication established by the cooperation among the government, the industry, and the academy.

RIKEN, based in Wako City, Saitama Prefecture, Japan, is a sole interdisciplinary institute of whole natural sciences including physics, chemistry, engineering, biology, and medicine from fundamental to applied studies. It has the Brain Science Institute, the Genomic Sciences Center, etc.

It is abbreviated to IPLL. Shirley McGreal organized it in 1973 to conserve non-human primates and their environments. Researchers of wild primates are cooperatively making their best endeavors to preserve the nature, refine the captive environments, legislate the ideas, etc.

This is the website of the chimpanzee colony in Arnhem in the Netherlands. Jan Antoon Reinier Alex Maria van Hooff, who was an ethologist in Utrecht University, established the colony in 1971. The colony has more than 30 chimpanzees and they live in the outdoor enclosure with an area of several thousand square meters in Burgers' Zoo, established by the grandfather of van Hooff. This is a locale of Frans B. M. de Waal's (1982) Chimpanzee politics: Power and sex among apes (London: Jonathan Cape. [ISBN13:978-4-582-76055-2]). The website of this colony is maintained by Otto Adang, who investigated the social play and teasing by these chimpanzees.

The Grasp (Great Apes Survival Project) is collaboratively managed by UNEP and UNESCO. The goal is to preserve great apes and their habitats and set forward their coexistence with local people. The GRASP-Japanis a partner of the GRASP in Japan.

The Jane Goodall Institute is a private research institute established by Jane Goodall, a prominent leading expert of wild chimpanzee research from England. The website provides useful information on various topics including the research of chimpanzee ecology and behavior, the natural conservation, and Roots and Shoots, an environmental education program for young people. The branch in Japan is the Jane Goodall Institute Japan.

This is a foundation managed by Biruté Marija Filomena Galdikas, a leading expert of research of wild Bornean orangutans. Their long-term reseach is made in Tanjung Puting, Indonesia. They also give high priority to the natural conservation and the rehabilitation of wild-born individuals.

This foundation is managed by Francine Patterson, famous for the research of Koko, a lowland gorilla, who uses American Sign Language. The Koko Project has been going on since 1971. It shows that gorillas and humans can communicate with each other with the signs consisting of about 500 words.

This fund, established by the late Dian Fossey in 1967, took over her research of wild mountain gorillas. They continue research in Karisoke, Rwanda.

The forum was established as a 501 (c) (3) NPO by psychologists to claim a ethical treatment of laboratory animals on the basis of findings in psychology and pedagody. This shows the situation concerning animal welfare and animal rights in the United States of America.

The GRASP-Japan (Great Apes Survival Project Japan Committee) was initiated as a partner of the GRASP mainly by the researchers of great apes in Japan. They work to preserve the wild habitats and promote the coexistence of the great apes and the local people.

This is a branch in Japan of the Jane Goodall Institute. The website provides information on wild chimpanzees and the natural preservation of their habitats.

SAGA (Support for African/Asian Great Apes) is a NPO organized by a variety of people concerned in the activities related to great apes. The participants include researchers of wild and laboratory primates as well as natural conservation activists and zookeepers.

This is a search system provided by National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health of the Unites States of America. The system enables the search of MEDLINE, compiled by the libary, covering a various field of life science.

This is an online library provided by Elsevier, including Animal Behaviour, Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, Current Biology, Journal of Human Evolution, Behavioural Processes, Behavioural Brain Research, Brain and Cognition, Brain and Language, and Trends in Cognitive Sciences.

This is an online library provided by Wiley, including American Journal of Primatology, an official journal of the American Society of Primatology, Japanese Psychological Research, an official journal of the Japanese Psychological Association, American Journal of Physical Anthropology, Ethology, Developmental Psychobiology, Evolutionary Anthropology: Issues, News, and Reviews, and Zoo Biology.

This is an online library provided by Karger, including Folia Primatologica, an official journal of the European Federation for Primatology, Neonatology, and Brain, Behavior and Evolution.

This is an online library provided by Springer Science+Business Media, including International Journal of Primatology, an official journal of the International Primatologival Society, Primates, published by the Japan Monkey Centre cooperatively with the Primate Society of Japan, Animal Cognition, and Journal of Ethology an official journal of the Japan Ethological Society.

This is an online library provided by Cambridge University Press, including Behavioral and Brain Sciences.

This is an online library provided by the PLoS (Public Library of Science), including PLoS Biology and PLoS ONE. The PLoS offers open-access scientific and medical papers.

This is an online library provided by the American Psychological Association, including Journal of Comparative Psychology, Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes, Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, Developmental Psychology, and Psychological Review.

This is an online library provided by the Royal Society of London, including Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Series B: Biological Sciences, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Series B: Biological Sciences, and Biology Letters.

This is an online library provided by the Nature Publishing Group in England, a division of Macmillan Publishers, including Nature, Nature Neuroscience, Nature Reviews Neuroscience, and Nature Digest, a digest in Japanese.

This is an online library of the Science provided by the American Association for the Advancement of Science in the United States of America.

This is an online library of the PNAS (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America) provided by the National Academy of Science of the United States of America.

This is an online library of the Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior and the Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis. Both are the important journals of the experimental analysis of behavior or operant psychology, initiated by Burrhus Frederic Skinner and other researchers. Some important papers are offered free.

This is a newsletter on laboratory work with primates. Allan M. Schrier, a student of Harry Frederick Harlow, published the first issue in 1962. His wife Judith E. Schrier took the publication over after his death. The newsletter offers much information on laboratory primate research.

When studying non-human animals, researchers should take into consideration the natural conservation for field work as well as animal welfare for laboratory work. This organization was established as a world-wide promoter of environmental enrichment, and is a NPO now. The website provides information on the idea of environmental enrichment and actual tips. They publish a newsletter of the same name four times a year.

This is an journal of mimetics, established in 1997 and suspended in 2005. The board members include Daniel Clement Dennett and Clinton Richard Dawkins.

This is an online library provided by Japan Science and Technology Agency, including Primate Research, an official journal in Japanese of the Primate Society of Japan, Japanese Journal of Animal Psychology, an official journal in Japanese of Japanese Society for Animal Psychology, and Cognitive Studies, an official journal in Japanese of Japanese Cognitive Science Society.

This website is for the people much interested in primatology. This shows all the literature on primatology from the 1940s to the present. This is a collaborative project by the Wisconsin National Primate Research Center, the Washington National Primate Research Center, and the University of Wisconsin-Madison Libraries. The Primate Information Center in the Washington National Primate Research Center, the University of Washington is in charge of the collection of the literature.

Abbreviated to PIN. This is a website for the people much interested in primatology, managed by the Library and Information Service of the Wisconsin National Primate Research Center in the United States of America. The website offers the information database of the primate research institute and primatologists all over the world, including the information for contact, their addresses, Fax numbers, and e-mail addresses. It also provides detailed information on the laws and guidelines on animal welfare. Behavior and Ecology, a part of this website, collects the information on the behavior and ecology of non-human primates.

This website offers the information database on the research of the primate handedness and brain lateralization provided by M. K. Holder in Indiana University in the United States of America. The relationship between the uniquely human dominant right-handedness and the left lateralization of the language faculty is approached from the perspective of the research of the handedness of non-human primates.

This is a list of hyperlinks on evolution provided by the Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University. It offers the hyperlinks to the journals, softwares, facilities, societies, etc.

This website was established on the basis of the sources stored in the Eugenics Archive in the Dolan DNA Learning Center, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in the United States of America. It reviews the history and present circumstances of eugenics in the United States as well as the valuable images of the materials.

This website offers the 3D images of primate crania which can be rotated on the browser. It is provided by the Department of Anthropology, University of California, Santa Barbala.

This is a practical online dictionary of the American Sign Langugae (ASL). It provides the movies showing the shape and movement of hands.

In Japanese. This is the website of the seminar for the introduction of recent articles on comparative cognition, etc, conducted in the Laboratory of Kazuo Fujita in Kyoto University.

This is an international society of human ethology established by Irenäus Eibl-Eibesfeldt, the first president, and other researchers in 1972. The goal is to investigate human behavior in the realm of biology and behavioral science from the perspective of evolution. The society publishes Human Ethology Bulletin as an official journal.

This is an international society of cognitive science. The goal is to comprehend the nature of the human mind. The society has published Cognitive Science: A Multidisciplinary Journal from Elsevier since 1976. It has held an academic conference once a year since 1979. The David Marr Prize, in honor of the late David Courtnay Marr, a prominent researcher of the theory of computation, is given to young researchers from 1990. The website offers the introduction, the hyperlinks, etc. It is one of the important resources of evolutionary psychology.

Abbreviated as HBES. This is an international society for the researchers of evolutionary psychology. It is considered as a society for the reseachers from the social and biological science, who use evolutionary theory to to discover human nature including cognitive, emotional, and sexual adaptations. The website provides the introducion of the articles on evolutionary psychology, the journal and newsletter published by the society, and the recently published books on evolutionary psychology.

This is an international society of primatology. It publishes the International Journal of Primatology from Springer as an official journal and the newsletter. The society holds a biennial academic conference alternately in the country inhabited by wild non-human primates and in the country uninhabited. The president from 1998 to 2000 was Toshisada Nishida from Japan.

This is an American society of primatology. It publishes the American Journal of Primatology from Wiley as an official journal.

This is an European society of primatology. It publishes the Folia Primatologica from Karger as an official journal.

This is a Japanese society of primatology. It publishes the Primate Research and registers it in the J-STAGE as a Japanese official journal. The society also supports the Japan Monkey Centre to publish the Primates from Springer as the Centre's official journal.

In Japanese. This is a Japanese society of animal psychology. It publishes the Japanese Journal of Animal Psychology and registers it in the J-STAGE as a Japanese official journal.

On the basis of the tradition of the ethology, developed by Konrad Zacharias Lorenz and Nicolaas Tinbergen, who both received the Nobel Prize, the society is open to a variety of research fields of animal behavior like behavioral ecology, physiology, animal sociology, psychology, genetics, evolutionary studies, and theoretical biology. It was established by Toshitaka Hidaka, the first president, and other researchers in 1982. The target animals do not only include insects, fish, birds, mammals, but also artificial life in computers. It publishes the Journal of Ethology from Springer.

The society is the largest general association on psychology in Japan, established in 1927. It publishes the Japanese Psychological Research from Wiley as an English official journal,the Japanese Journal of Psychology as a Japanese official journal, and the Psychology World as a Japanese official magazine. The society also conducts certification of certified psychologists.

This is a Japanese society of developmental psychology established in 1987. The developmental process in this society does not only include that of infants, children, and adolescents, but also adults and aged people. The society is open to various people including non-researchers. It publishes the Japanese Journal of Developmental Psychology as a Japanese official journal.

This is a Japanese society of educational psychology established in 1952. It is also active in developmental psychological research. The society certificates school psychologists. It publishes the Japanese Journal of Educational Psychology and the Annual Report of Educational Psychology in Japan as Japanese official journals.

In Japanese. This is a Japanese society of cognitive science, interdisciplinary among various research fields including cognitive engeneering, artificial intelligence, and cognitive psychology. It has published the Cognitive Studies since 1994 and registers it in the J-STAGE as a Japanese official journal.

In Japanese. This is a Japanese society of evolutionary studies. The parcipating researchers come from a variety of disciplines, which enables discussion from a broad perspective. The website offers the useful hyperlinks to the societies, publishers, etc.

This is a society for neuroscience in Japan. This website includes the guideline of animal experiments, resources on neuroscience, and useful hyperlinks.

In Japanese. The Human Behavior and Evolution Society of Japan (HBES-J) is a counterpart in Japan of the Human Behavior and Evolution Society (HBES). The society is an interdisciplinary organization among the researchers from various fields like human behavioral ecology, evolutionary psychology, evolutionary experimental economy, evolutionary game theory, evolutionary ethics, studies on language evolution, evolutionary medicine, and cognitive anthropology.