Naruki Morimura

Naruki Morimura

Program-specific Associate Professor, Wildlife Research Center, Kyoto University

Humans and non-human animals (‘animals' hereafter) have been coexisted with various manners of its relationships. The conflicts are one of forms that represent the relationships between humans and animals. The conflicts between them happened in human's space have been designated as an issue of animal welfare. In contrast, ones happened in animal's space (namely, in the wild) were regarded as an issue of conservation biology. However, the human-animal relationships are too much complex to sort out those issues into the dichotomy of either welfare or conservation. As an approach from animal welfare, I have studies environmental enrichment, especially focusing on cognitive enrichment of captive chimpanzees at Kumamoto Sanctuary. I have engaged in plantation activity for chimpanzee conservation in Bossou, Guinea, from a viewpoint of conservation. I have been interesting in bridging issues between welfare and conservation.

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Professional History
  • 2014-
    Program-specific Associate Professor, Wildlife Research Center, Kyoto University
  • 2013
    Program-specific Assistant Professor, Primate Research Institute of Kyoto University
  • 2008-2012
    Program-specific Assistant Professor, Wildlife Research Center, Kyoto University
  • 2007-2008
    Program-specific Assistant Professor, Primate Research Institute of Kyoto University
  • 1999-2007
    Researcher, Hayashibara Great Ape Research Institute
Educational History
  • 2007
    Obtained Ph. D Degree in Science, Kyoto University
  • 1999
    Obtained Master Degree in Agriculture, United Graduate School of Agricultural Science, Tokyo Noko University

Original articles (peer-reviewed)

Book Capters
  • Inoue-Murayama M, Weiss A, Morimura N, Tanak M, Yamagiwa J, Idani Gen'ichi. (2011). Molecular Behavioral Research in Great Apes. In: Inoue-Murayama M, Kawamura S, Weiss A. (eds). From Genes to Animal Behavior. Tokyo: Springer. pp239-253.
  • Hirata S, Morimura N, Fuwa K. (2010). Intentional Communication and Comprehension of the Partner's Role in Experimental Cooperative Tasks. In. Lonsdorf, E. V., Ross, S. R., & Matsuzawa, T. (eds.). The mind of the chimpanzees: ecological and experimental perspectives. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press. pp 251-264.
  • Morimura N. (2006). Cognitive enrichment in chimpanzees: an approach of welfare entailing an animal's entire resources. In: Matsuzawa T, Tomonaga M, Tanaka M. (Eds). Cognitive Development in Chimpanzees. New York: Springer, pp368-391.