The PrimateCast

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The PrimateCast features conversations with renowned primatologists, wildlife scientists, conservationists and other professional animal enthusiasts about the processes and products of their work. The podcast is hosted and produced by Dr. Andrew MacIntosh, who's now the Senior Scientist, Wildlife Conservation at the Wilder Institute / Calgary Zoo. The show was incubated by Kyoto University's Center for International Collaboration and Advanced Studies in Primatology (CICASP), where Andrew worked from 2011-2024.

Recent Episodes
  • Nature's Apothecary: Monarchs, Milkweed, and the Art of Self-Medication with Dr. Jaap de Roode
    Jan 21, 2025 – 01:12:14
  • Transforming Science Engagement: Amanda Mathieson on the Power of Escape Rooms and Playful Learning
    Jan 2, 2025 – 01:02:40
  • Evolving Zoo Animal Welfare Science with Dr. Lance J. Miller of Brookfield Zoo Chicago
    Dec 11, 2024 – 01:17:52
  • From Conventions to Culture: Social Cognition in Techno-Baboons with Dr. Nicolas Claidiere
    Nov 26, 2024 – 01:16:04
  • A Primatologist's Journey from Japan to the Wilder West (And a call to action!)
    Nov 12, 2024 – 22:16
  • From Cacophony to Symphony: The Harmonious Interplay of Animal Cognition and Communication with Dr. Tecumseh Fitch
    Nov 23, 2023 – 01:08:16
  • Unraveling the Secrets of Cold Adaptation and Hybridization in Primates with Evolutionary Anthropologist Dr. Laura Buck
    Oct 31, 2023 – 01:19:45
  • Exploring Human-Primate Coexistence with Dr. Paula Pebsworth: A Journey from the Vineyards of Napa Valley to the Wilds of Africa, Asia and Beyond
    Oct 25, 2023 – 50:19
  • Change: Primate Populations in an Anthropogenic World with Primatologist and Conservation Biologist Dr. Colin Chapman
    Sep 27, 2023 – 35:22
  • Understanding the Ins and Outs of Tool Use in Capuchin Monkeys with Professor Patricia Izar
    Sep 15, 2023 – 51:01
  • Exploring Comparative Primate Cognition with Dr. Reggie Gazes and Dr. Ikuma Adachi
    Jul 31, 2023 – 01:02:33
  • From Gorillas to Elephants: Dr. Ian Redmond on Wildlife Conservation in Africa
    Jul 20, 2023 – 01:33:37
  • Journey into the Wild with The Orangutan Conservation Project's Leif Cocks
    Jun 28, 2023 – 01:07:21
  • Tarzan meets Darwin in conservation and evolution with conservationist and evolutionary biologist Dr. Fred Bercovitch
    Jun 15, 2023 – 01:10:39
  • Born Free USA's Devan Schowe on animal advocacy, ethics, welfare and conservation in the USA
    May 9, 2023 – 01:38:16
  • Walking with gorillas and Dr. Gladys Kalema-Zikusoka, Uganda's first wildlife veterinarian
    Apr 20, 2023 – 53:07
  • What teeth can tell us about the life histories and behavior of extinct species (and cool science communication!) with Dr. Tesla Monson
    Mar 28, 2023 – 01:36:47
  • Fairness and economic behavior in human and nonhuman primates with distinguished professor and primatologist Dr. Sarah Brosnan
    Mar 15, 2023 – 50:53
  • A Conversation about animal cognition and emotions, anthropomorphism versus anthropodenial, and the power of storytelling in science with distinguished Professor Emeritus Dr. Frans de Waal
    Jan 26, 2023 – 01:07:26
  • Why you should care deeply about primate eponyms with Dr. Elaine Guevara
    Dec 15, 2022 – 01:11:40
  • A half-century journey into primatology and wildlife biology with Professor Mewa Singh
    Dec 1, 2022 – 01:22:44
  • A conversation about what makes us human, paleontological time machines and bigging up science education with Dr. Briana Pobiner
    Nov 15, 2022 – 01:06:49
  • A life among the apes with primatologist Dr. John Mitani
    Nov 1, 2022 – 58:52
  • A conversation about what music means to us, and monkeys, with Dr. Charles (Chuck) Snowdon
    Oct 18, 2022 – 33:19
  • Language, anthropomorphism, and metaphor in science, and translating Kinji Imanishi and the flow of Japanese primatology with Dr. Pamela Asquith
    Oct 11, 2022 – 01:15:00
  • Weaving between theory and practice in behavioral ecology and conservation with Dr. Karen Strier
    Aug 20, 2022 – 01:16:33
  • Bonobos, Wamba Village in the DRC, and building theories of human behavioral evolution with Dr. Takeshi Furuichi
    Jul 26, 2022 – 01:39:48
  • Being a Primate, Becoming a Primatologist with Dr. Elisabetta Visalberghi
    Jul 1, 2022 – 55:01
  • Paleontology, the past, present and future of biodiversity, beardogs, and doing and communicating science with CICASP’s Dr. Susumu Tomiya
    Jun 16, 2022 – 01:25:09
  • How the social brain evolved with Dr. Robin Dunbar
    May 8, 2022 – 52:51
  • Comparative Cognition and Managing a Chimpanzee Research Program with Dr. Ikuma Adachi
    Apr 21, 2022 – 01:17:50
  • On NOT being a primatologist with Dr. Ramesh "Zimbo" Boonratana
    Mar 5, 2022 – 35:22
  • Zoos, conservation, and empowering Earth's future guardians with Drs. Chia Tan and Fred Bercovitch
    Feb 19, 2022 – 38:33
  • The making of a field station with Dr. Vernon Reynolds
    Jan 29, 2022 – 56:34
  • Social networks, fieldwork fails and open science with Dr. Julie Duboscq
    Jan 7, 2022 – 40:17
  • On Learning to Be a Monkey by Dr. Michael Huffman
    Dec 22, 2021 – 52:14
  • Sayonara, Cécile! A send off interview with former student, now colleague, and Conservation Voices cohost Dr. Cecile Sarabian
    Dec 7, 2021 – 59:04
  • Talking EcoHealth and unexpected chimpanzees with Dr. Anne Laudisoit
    Apr 11, 2020 – 55:37
  • Behind saving the golden lion tamarins with Dr. Valeria Romano and a host of experts protecting an endangered Brasilian primate
    Feb 14, 2020 – 01:11:47
  • Applied wildlife veterinary medicine and great ape conservation with Dr. Chris Whittier
    Sep 19, 2017 – 18:42
  • Cracking the Case of Emerging Wildlife Diseases with Dr. Fabian Leendertz
    Aug 30, 2017 – 14:44
  • Comparative Evolution, Infectious Disease and ... Sleep with Dr. Charlie Nunn
    May 14, 2017 – 13:10
  • From primate behavioral ecology to the faces in the forest with Dr. Karen Strier
    May 13, 2017 – 15:21
  • Conservation Voices from South Africa: Canned lion hunting with Dr. Andrew Venter
    Feb 1, 2017 – 22:25
  • Conservation Voices from Tokyo: The ivory trade with Airi Yamawaki
    Oct 16, 2016 – 16:48
  • Houseboat Amazon and the search for a long lost South American primate with Dr. Laura Marsh
    Oct 9, 2016 – 13:02
  • Conservation Voices from Hawaii: One view of the IUCN World Conservation Congress 2016
    Oct 6, 2016 – 01:09:17
  • Voices from Chicago: A fun look back at the 2016 International Primatological Society meeting
    Oct 4, 2016 – 49:32
  • Cold-blooded Cognition and Conservation with Dr. Anna Wilkinson
    Aug 29, 2016 – 14:53
  • Slow Loris Venom and Social Media for Conservation with Dr. Anna Nekaris
    Aug 8, 2016 – 33:05
Recent Reviews
  • sloot$
    Great listen
    Always fantastic guests. Well spoken and informed host. Thoroughly enjoy the podcast for many reasons!
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