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List of works by Michael A. Huffman

A multidisciplinary view on cultural primatology: behavioral innovations and traditions in Japanese macaques.

scientific article published on 10 February 2016

A new case of fish-eating in Japanese macaques: implications for social constraints on the diffusion of feeding innovation.

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Acquisition and development of stone handling behavior in infant Japanese macaques

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Age class differences in the feeding behavior of captive Japanese macaques (Macaca fuscataia) in the forested and nonvegetated enclosure groups.

scientific article published on 19 April 2010

Age-related differences in the performance, diffusion, and maintenance of stone handling, a behavioral tradition in Japanese macaques

scientific article published on 17 August 2007

Age-specific functions of stone handling, a solitary-object play behavior, in Japanese macaques (Macaca fuscata).

scientific article published in March 2007

An experimental study of leaf swallowing in captive chimpanzees: insights into the origin of a self-medicative behavior and the role of social learning

scientific article published on 23 January 2004

Animal self-medication and ethno-medicine: exploration and exploitation of the medicinal properties of plants

scientific article published on May 1, 2003

Antiprotozoal and antihelminthic properties of plants ingested by wild Japanese macaques (Macaca fuscata yakui) in Yakushima Island

scientific article published on 04 October 2019

Antischistosomal activities of sesquiterpene lactones and steroid glucosides from Vernonia amygdalina, possibly used by wild chimpanzees against parasite-related diseases

scientific article published on May 1, 1992

Antitumoral and antimicrobial activities of bitter sesquiterpene lactones of Vernonia amygdalina, a possible medicinal plant used by wild chimpanzees.

scientific article published in May 1993

Are daughters more costly to produce for Japanese macaque mothers?: Sex of the offspring and subsequent interbirth intervals

Asian elephant self-medication as a source of ethnoveterinary knowledge among Karen mahouts in northern Thailand

scientific article published on 06 May 2020

Beneficial effect of hot spring bathing on stress levels in Japanese macaques.

scientific article published on 3 April 2018

Bioactive properties of plant species ingested by chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii) in the Kibale National Park, Uganda

scientific article published on January 2006

Bitter Principle and a Related Steroid Glucoside fromVernonia amygdalina, a Possible Medicinal Plant for Wild Chimpanzees

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Bitter steroid glucosides, vernoniosides A1, A2, and A3, and related B1 from a possible medicinal plant, Vernonia amygdalina, used by wild chimpanzees

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Campylobacter troglodytis sp. nov., isolated from feces of human-habituated wild chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii) in Tanzania

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Changes in social behavior and fecal glucocorticoids in a Japanese macaque (Macaca fuscata) carrying her dead infant

scientific article published on 18 September 2019

Chemistry, mineralogy and microbiology of termite mound soil eaten by the chimpanzees of the Mahale Mountains, Western Tanzania

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Comparison of stone handling behavior in two macaque species: implications for the role of phylogeny and environment in primate cultural variation.

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Complexity in object manipulation by Japanese macaques (Macaca fuscata): a cross-sectional analysis of manual coordination in stone handling patterns.

scientific article published in February 2011

Consort Intrusion and Female Mate Choice in Japanese Macaques (Macaca fuscata)

article published in 2010

Cultured Monkeys

DNA from pre-erythrocytic stage malaria parasites is detectable by PCR in the faeces and blood of hosts

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Dead or alive? Predicting fetal loss in Japanese macaques (Macaca fuscata) by fecal metabolites.

scientific article published on 19 October 2016

Defining the geographical range of the Plasmodium knowlesi reservoir

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Description of Enterobius (Colobenterobius) emodensis sp. n. (Nematoda: Oxyuridae) collected from Central Himalayan langur, Semnopithecus schistaceus, in Uttarakhand, India

article by Hideo Hasegawa et al published 5 November 2018 in Zootaxa

Descriptive epidemiology of fatal respiratory outbreaks and detection of a human-related metapneumovirus in wild chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) at Mahale Mountains National Park, Western Tanzania

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Descriptive urological record of chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) in the wild and limitations associated with using multi-reagent dipstick test strips

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Detection of Plasmodium knowlesi DNA in the urine and faeces of a Japanese macaque (Macaca fuscata) over the course of an experimentally induced infection

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Development and Validation of an Enzyme Immunoassay for Fecal Dehydroepiandrosterone Sulfate in Japanese Macaques (Macaca fuscata)

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Developmental changes in the endocrine stress response in orangutans (Pongo pygmaeus)

scientific article published on 23 September 2019

Differences in the endocrine and behavioral profiles during the peripartum period in macaques

scientific article published in November 2003

Diversity and host specificity of Blastocystis in syntopic primates on Rubondo Island, Tanzania.

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Doctors, chefs or hominin animals? Non-edible plants and Neanderthals

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Dominance among male chimpanzees in the Mahale Mountains National Park, Tanzania: A preliminary study

scholarly article by Hitoshige Hayaki et al published April 1989 in Primates

ENTAMOEBA SPP. IN WILD FORMOSAN ROCK MACAQUES (MACACA CYCLOPIS) IN AN AREA WITH FREQUENT HUMAN-MACAQUE CONTACT

scientific article published on 25 January 2019

Ecological features and ranging patterns at a chimpanzee release site on Rubondo Island, Tanzania

scholarly article by Liza R. Moscovice et al published November 2010 in Biological Conservation

Effect of Female-Biased Sex Ratios on Female Homosexual Behavior in Japanese Macaques: Evidence for the "Bisexual Preference Hypothesis".

scientific article published on 7 May 2015

Effect of castration on social behavior and hormones in male Japanese macaques (Macaca fuscata).

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Effect of gluten diet on blood innate immune gene expressions and stool consistency in Spix's Saddleback Tamarin (Leontocebus fuscicollis) raised in captivity

scientific article published on 14 June 2019

Effects of maternal style on infant behavior in Japanese macaques (Macaca fuscata).

scientific article published in December 2002

Enclosure environment affects the activity budgets of captive Japanese macaques (Macaca fuscata).

scientific article published in December 2008

Energetic consequences of seasonal breeding in female Japanese macaques (Macaca fuscata).

scientific article published on 8 August 2011

Environmental and Social Factors Associated with the Occurrence of Stone-Handling Behavior in a Captive Troop of Macaca fuscata

article by Charmalie A. D. Nahallage & Michael A. Huffman published June 2008 in International Journal of Primatology

Environmental, biological, and social factors influencing fecal adrenal steroid concentrations in female Japanese macaques (Macaca fuscata).

scientific article published on 16 May 2014

Evaluating home range techniques: use of Global Positioning System (GPS) collar data from chacma baboons.

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Exploitation of secondary metabolites by animals: A response to homeostatic challenges.

scientific article published on 22 June 2009

Extraordinarily low bone mineral density in an old female chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii) from the Mahale Mountains National Park

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Factors Affecting Party Size in Chimpanzees of the Mahale Mountains

article by Akiko Matsumoto-Oda et al published 1998 in International Journal of Primatology

Factors Influencing the Ranging Behavior of Chacma Baboons (Papio hamadryas ursinus) Living in a Human-Modified Habitat

Folklore, Animal Self-Medication, and Phytotherapy–Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed, Some Things True

scientific article published on 8 October 2021

Food provisioning and stone handling tradition in Japanese macaques: a comparative study of ten troops

scientific article published on 01 August 2008

Fractal analysis of behaviour in a wild primate: behavioural complexity in health and disease.

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Friends in high places: Interspecific grooming between chimpanzees and primate prey species in Budongo Forest

scientific article published in 2023

Fruit availability, chimpanzee diet, and grouping patterns on Rubondo Island, Tanzania.

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Gastrointestinal Parasites of Indigenous and Introduced Primate Species of Rubondo Island National Park, Tanzania

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Gastrointestinal parasite infections and self-medication in wild chimpanzees surviving in degraded forest fragments within an agricultural landscape mosaic in Uganda

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Gastrointestinal parasites of the chimpanzee population introduced onto Rubondo Island National Park, Tanzania

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Geochemistry and clay mineralogy of termite mound soil and the role of geophagy in chimpanzees of the Mahale Mountains, Tanzania

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Geophagy among nonhuman primates: A systematic review of current knowledge and suggestions for future directions

scientific article published on 03 December 2018

Geophagy in chacma baboons: patterns of soil consumption by age class, sex, and reproductive state

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High Frequency of Leaf Swallowing and its Relationship to Intestinal Parasite Expulsion in “Village” Chimpanzees at Bulindi, Uganda

scientific article published on July 1, 2012

Hormonal contraceptive affects heterosexual but not homosexual behavior in free-ranging female Japanese macaques over 17 mating seasons

scientific article published on 04 September 2018

Host age, sex, and reproductive seasonality affect nematode parasitism in wild Japanese macaques.

scientific article published on 14 August 2010

Increase in tannin consumption by sifaka ( Propithecus verreauxi verreauxi) females during the birth season: a case for self-medication in prosimians?

scientific article published on 20 November 2002

Indirect social influence in the maintenance of the stone-handling tradition in Japanese macaques, Macaca fuscata

article by Jean-Baptiste Leca et al published January 2010 in Animal Behaviour

Influences of Female Partner Preference on Potential Reproductive Outcome in Japanese Macaques

scientific article published on 01 January 1992

Interspecific Feeding Association between Central Himalayan Langurs (Semnopithecus schistaceus) and Himalayan Black Bears (Ursus thibetanus), in a Temperate Forest of the Western Indian Himalayas

article by Himani Nautiyal & Michael A. Huffman published March 2018 in Mammal study

Japanese macaque cultures: Inter- and intra-troop behavioural variability of stone handling patterns across 10 troops

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Leaf swallowing and parasite expulsion in Khao Yai white-handed gibbons (Hylobates lar), the first report in an Asian ape species

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Leaf swallowing and parasitic infection of the Chinese lesser civet Viverricula indica in northeastern Taiwan

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Leaf swallowing behavior in chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes): biased learning and the emergence of group level cultural differences.

scientific article published on 3 July 2010

Leaf-swallowing by chimpanzees: A behavioral adaptation for the control of strongyle nematode infections

article published in 1996

Marked variation between winter and spring gut microbiota in free-ranging Tibetan Macaques (Macaca thibetana).

scientific article published on 16 May 2016

Maternal behavior and maternal stress are associated with infant behavioral development in macaques.

scientific article published in January 2006

Medicinal plants in the diet of woolly spider monkeys ( Brachyteles arachnoides , E. Geoffroy, 1806) – a bio-rational for the search of new medicines for human use?

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Mineralogical and chemical interactions of soils eaten by chimpanzees of the Mahale Mountains and Gombe Stream National Parks, Tanzania.

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Molecular diversity of entodiniomorphid ciliate Troglodytella abrassarti and its coevolution with chimpanzees

scientific article published on 11 May 2012

Molecular ecology and natural history of simian foamy virus infection in wild-living chimpanzees

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Molecular features of hookworm larvae (Necator spp.) raised by coproculture from Ugandan chimpanzees and Gabonese gorillas and humans

scientific article published on 10 November 2016

Molecular identification of Oesophagostomum spp. from 'village' chimpanzees in Uganda and their phylogenetic relationship with those of other primates

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Monkeys in the middle: parasite transmission through the social network of a wild primate

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Morphology of chimpanzee pinworms, Enterobius (Enterobius) anthropopitheci (Gedoelst, 1916) (Nematoda: Oxyuridae), collected from chimpanzees, Pan troglodytes, on Rubondo Island, Tanzania

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Neanderthal self-medication in context

scholarly article by Karen Hardy published in September 2013

Noninvasive Monitoring of the Health of Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii in the Kibale National Park, Uganda

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Observations on the illness and consumption of a possibly medicinal plant Vernonia amygdalina (Del.), by a wild chimpanzee in the Mahale Mountains National Park, Tanzania

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Of stones and monkeys: testing ecological constraints on stone handling, a behavioral tradition in Japanese macaques.

scientific article published in February 2008

On the sunny side of (new) life: Effect of sunshine duration on age at first reproduction in Japanese macaques (Macaca fuscata)

scientific article published on 27 June 2019

Parasite transmission risk from geophagic and foraging behavior in chacma baboons

scientific article published on 15 June 2012

Parasites and Dung Beetles as Ecosystem Engineers in a Forest Ecosystem

Parasitic Nematodes in the Chimpanzee Population on Rubondo Island, Tanzania

scholarly article by Klára J Petrželková et al published June 2006 in International Journal of Primatology

Peripartum cortisol levels and mother-infant interactions in Japanese macaques

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Peripartum sex steroid changes and maternal style in rhesus and Japanese macaques.

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Physiologic Correlates of Interactions between Adult Male and Immature Long-tailed Macaques (Macaca fascicularis).

scientific article published in November 2017

Physiological activities and the active constituents of potentially medicinal plants used by wild chimpanzees of the Mahale mountains, Tanzania

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Primate Infectious Disease Ecology: Insights and Future Directions at the Human-Macaque Interface

publication published on 23 July 2019

Primate archaeology evolves

scientific article published on 21 September 2017

Primates Can Be a Rallying Symbol to Promote Tropical Forest Restoration

scientific article published on 03 March 2020

Principles and levels of laterality in unimanual and bimanual stone handling patterns by Japanese macaques

article by Jean-Baptiste Leca et al published February 2010 in Journal of Human Evolution

Ranging behavior of Mahale chimpanzees: a 16 year study

scientific article published on 14 December 2012

Relationship between sexual interactions and the timing of the fertile phase in captive female Japanese macaques (Macaca fuscata).

scientific article published in October 2009

Reproductive parameters of female Japanese macaques: Thirty years data from the arashiyama troops, Japan

article by Naoki Koyama et al published January 1992 in Primates

Salivary alpha-amylase enzyme is a non-invasive biomarker of acute stress in Japanese macaques (Macaca fuscata)

scientific article published on 20 September 2019

Season, age, and sex affect the fecal mycobiota of free-ranging Tibetan macaques (Macaca thibetana)

scientific article published on 12 June 2018

Seasonal and reproductive variation in body condition in captive female Japanese macaques (Macaca fuscata).

scientific article published in April 2010

Seasonal trends in intestinal nematode infection and medicinal plant use among chimpanzees in the Mahale Mountains, Tanzania

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Self-Medicative Behavior in the African Great Apes: An Evolutionary Perspective into the Origins of Human Traditional Medicine

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Social Behavior and Hormonal Correlates during the Perinatal Period in Japanese Macaques

scientific article published on 01 May 2001

Soil consumed by chacma baboons is low in bioavailable iron and high in clay.

scientific article published on March 2013

Steroid glucosides from vernonia amygdalina, a possible chimpanzee medicinal plant

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Stone handling behavior in rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta), a behavioral propensity for solitary object play shared with Japanese macaques.

scientific article published on 30 October 2011

Stone handling by Japanese macaques (Macaca fuscata): Implications for tool use of stone

article by Michael A. Huffman & Duane Quiatt published October 1986 in Primates

Stone handling, an object play behaviour in macaques: welfare and neurological health implications of a bio-culturally driven tradition

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Stone-play of Macaca fuscata in Arashiyama B troop: Transmission of a non-adaptive behavior

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Stone-throwing by Japanese macaques: form and functional aspects of a group-specific behavioral tradition.

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Strongyloides infections of humans and great apes in Dzanga-Sangha Protected Areas, Central African Republic and in degraded forest fragments in Bulindi, Uganda

scientific article published on 11 May 2016

The Four Chimpanzee Skulls Collected in the Mahale Mountains, Tanzania

scholarly article by Daisuke Shimizu et al published 2002 in Anthropological Science

The effect of urban and rural habitats and resource type on activity budgets of commensal rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta) in Bangladesh

scientific article published on 18 September 2012

The first case of dental flossing by a Japanese macaque (Macaca fuscata): implications for the determinants of behavioral innovation and the constraints on social transmission.

scientific article published in January 2010

The impact of tourist visits on mountain gorilla behavior in Uganda

scientific article published in 2023

The influence of age and season on fecal dehydroepiandrosterone-sulfate (DHEAS) concentrations in Japanese macaques (Macaca fuscata).

scientific article published on 7 June 2013

Tool-assisted predation on a squirrel by a female chimpanzee in the Mahale Mountains, Tanzania

scholarly article by Michael A. Huffman & Mohamedi Seifu Kalunde published January 1993 in Primates

Toward the chemical ecology of medicinal plant use in chimpanzees: The case ofVernonia amygdalina, a plant used by wild chimpanzees possibly for parasite-related diseases.

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Tropical field stations yield high conservation return on investment

scientific article published in 2024

Urological Screening of a Wild Group of Japanese Macaques (Macaca fuscata yakui): Investigating Trends in Nutrition and Health

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Use of Vernonia amygdalina by wild chimpanzee: possible roles of its bitter and related constituents.

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Water games by mountain gorillas: implications for behavioral development and flexibility-a case report

scientific article published on 29 August 2019

Watering holes: The use of arboreal sources of drinking water by Old World monkeys and apes.

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What makes a long tail short? Testing Allen's rule in the toque macaques of Sri Lanka

scientific article published on 24 February 2020

Why dominants do not consistently attain high mating and reproductive success: A review of longitudinal Japanese macaque studies.

scientific article published on January 1999

Zoonotic Enterobacterial Pathogens Detected in Wild Chimpanzees

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