Charmalie Anuradhie Dona Nahallage

Primate Research Institute, Kyoto University, 41-2, Kanrin,
Inuyama, Aich 484 - 8506, Japan.
Tel: (0568)63-0567
Fax: (0568)63-0565
E mail : charmalie2@hotmail.com,
nahallag@pri.kyoto-u.ac.jp

Touque monkey	Purple faced langur	Gray Langur	Slender loris

Nationality: Sri Lankan
Date of Birth: 1968.08.16

Civil Status: Married

Occupation: Lecturer in Biological Anthropology,
Department of Sociology and Anthropology
University of Sri Jayawardenepura, Gangodawila, Nugegoda
Sri Lanka.

Education: B.Sc (Zoology)- 1995 - University of Sri Jayawardenepura
M.Sc (Primatology) - 2005 - Kyoto University, Japan.

Languages spoken: Sinhalese, English and Japanese

Current Status: Doctoral candidate (PRI)

Scientific Background and Interest:

Limnology -Monitoring of physical, chemical and biological parameters of fresh and marine waters.

Forensic Anthropology- Age determination of humans using pelvic bones.

Primatology- Primate object play behavior. Occurrence, the acquisition process, development and transmission.

Employment:

Lecturer in Biological Anthropology, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, University of Sri Jayawardenepura, Sri Lanka. (1998 to present)

Research Officer, Department of Environmental Science, National Aquatic Resources Research and Development Agency, Sri Lanka. (1997 July - 1998 July).

Tutor, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, University of Sri Jayawardenepura, Sri Lanka. (1996 June to 1997 June).

Teaching Assistant, Department of Zoology, University of Sri Jayawardenepura, Sri Lanka. (1995 May to 1996 May).

Current Research Activities:

At present studies the stone handling and object manipulation behavior in captive and provisioned free ranging troops of the Japanese macaques. At the Primate Research Institute in Inuyama Japan and at Arashiyama and Shodoshima under the guidance of Professor Michael Huffman. Interested in the acquisition, transmission and diffusion of the behavior and its relationship to the ecological and demographic factors.

Further more studies stone handling in captive rhesus macaque troop to carry out an interspecies comparison of the behavior.

Conducting country wide census in all four primate species find in Sri Lanka: the toque macaque (Macaca sinica), gray langur (Semnopithecus entellus), purple-faced langur (Semnopithecus senex) and slender loris (Loris sp.).

Conducting a preliminary comparative socio-ecological survey of toque macaque subspecies in wet and dry zones of central and southern Sri Lanka.

Publications:

Nahallage, C.A.D., Huffman, M.A. (in press). Proximate Factors Associated with the Occurrence of Stone Handling Behavior in a Captive troop of Japanese Macaques. International Journal of Primatology

Nahallage, C.A.D., Huffman, M.A. (2007). Acquisition and development of stone handling behavior in infant Japanese macaques. Behaviour 144(10): 1193-1215

Nahallage, C.A.N., and Huffman, M.A. (2007). Age-specific functions of stone handling, a solitary object play behavior in Japanese macaques (Macaca fuscata). American Journal of Primatology 69(3): 267-281.

Nahallage, C.A.N., and Huffman, M.A. (2006) Observations of Meat Eating by Captive Juvenile Macaques. Laboratory Primate Newsletter 45(1): 1-4.

Nahallage, C.A.N. (2005) Object play with stones in the captive Takahama troop of Japanese macaques (Macaca fuscata): The effects of environmental factors on its occurrence, the acquisition process, development and transmission. Master Thesis, Kyoto University, Primate Research Institute. pp. 37.

Nahallage, C.A.N. (2002) Manava Vividathvaya. (Human Variation- a textbook guide to the fundamentals of Physical Anthropology, in Sinhalese), pp. 98 ISBN NO: 955-97416-0-8

Nahallage, C.A.N.. and Piyasiri, S. (1998). The Trophic Status of Beira Lake, Vidyodaya Journal of Science 7: 33-42.

Conference papers and posters:

Nahallage, C.A.D. and Huffman, M.A. (2006). Object play with stones:Habit or hobby in Japanese macaques. 21st Congress of the International Primatological Society: Entebbe Uganda. International Journal of Primatology 27,(sup)1. (oral presentation).

Huffman, M.A and Nahallage, C.A.D. (2006). Development, acquisition and transmission of stone handling behavior in Japanese macaques(Macaca fuscata). 21st Congress of the International Primatological Society: Entebbe Uganda. International Journal of Primatology 27,(sup)1. (oral presentation).

Huffman, M.A., Leca, J-B., Gunts, N. and Nahallage, C.A.D. (2005). Stone-handling, behavior in Japanese macaques, a multiple site comparative study. Cultural Conference 2005, September 15-17, 2005, Leipzig, Germany. (oral presentation).

Nahallage, C.A.D. and Huffman, M.A. (2005). Object play with stones in the captive Takahama troop of Japanese macaques in PRI- Japan. (poster presentation). Kyoto Conference: Delphinid and Primate Socioecology. 2005, July 29-30, Kyodai-Kaikan, Kyoto Japan.

Nahallage, C.A.D. and Huffman, M.A. (2005). "Acqusition and diffusion of stone handling behavior among Japanese macaques." St. Andrew International Symposium on Social Learning in Animals. June 15-18, 2005, St. Andrew University, Scotland. (poster #83)