Masao Kawai | |
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河合雅雄 | |
 Masao Kawai in 1961 | |
| Born | 2 January 1924 Sasayama, Hyogo Prefecture, Japan |
| Died | 14 May 2021 (aged 97) Tamba-Sasayama, Hyogo Prefecture, Japan |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | primatology |
| Institutions | Kyoto University |
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| Japanese name | |||||||||||
| Kanji | 河合 雅雄 | ||||||||||
| Hiragana | かわいまさお | ||||||||||
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Masao Kawai (河合 雅雄, Kawai Masao, January 2, 1924 – May 14, 2021) was a Japanese primatologist,[1] who introduced the concept of kyōkan as a means of studying primates in his book Life of Japanese Monkeys (1969).
Notes
- ↑ Nakamichi, Masayuki (2021). "Professor Masao Kawai, a pioneer and leading scholar in primatology and writer of animal stories for children". Primates. 62 (5): 677–695. doi:10.1007/s10329-021-00938-2. PMID 34427809. S2CID 237280652.
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