chimpanzee : Akira

GAIN ID number

:0435 （2026-02-02Updated）

International studbook number: -

Name	Akira
Sex	Male
Species or Subspecies	P. t. verus
Date of birth	1976?
Place of birth	Wild (Sierra Leone (Africa))
Current facility	Center for the Evolutionary Origins of Human Behavior, Kyoto University
Father
Mother

Feature

Akira has a gentle and nice-looking face. He has an outstanding, being broad-shouldered and narrow hipped. As the battle scars of a lot of fights, his front tooth is broken, pieces of his ears are missing, and one finger of his left foot is crooked. When strangers or people he dislikes are coming, he displays by throwing stones. He has good control! He cannot mate with females. He is in the habit of rubbing his soles and hands before he sleeps.

Character

Akira is simple-minded and openhearted. He is loved by everyone for his honesty. He is not good at studying or coping with difficult tasks. He is weak in understanding his circumstances. Although he would like to mediate between the females, he is often chased by all the females for some unknown reasons.

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Life history

1976.06?	Akira was born in Sierra Leone (Africa).
1978.01.30	Akira came to Kyoto University Primate Research Institute (PRI) from Africa together with Mari. (Weight 9.2 kg; bought from Kashou Corp.). As a member of the" Ai Project", Ai {0434} , started using a personal computer together with Ai {0434} .
1989.10.03	Ai and Akira escaped from Institute.
1995	New putdoor enclosure was completed. Chimpanzees now kept together in a group.
1998.07.29	Ai {0434} gave birth to the stillborn Atom {0584} .
2000.04.24	Ayum {0608} was born. Mother Ai {0434} .
2000.08.09	Pal {0611} was born. Mother: Pan {0440} .

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Research results using samples from this individual

References

Hattori and Tomonaga (2019) showed that an auditory beat induced rhythmic swaying and other rhythmic movements, with larger responses from male chimpanzees than female chimpanzees. http://www.pri.kyoto-u.ac.jp/pub/ronbun/1131/index-e.html

Biometry Date of investigation 2007/5/30 (31.16years old)

Right upper dental formula	Right lower dental formula	Left upper dental formula	Left lower dental formula
I1I2CP1P2M1M2M3	I1I2CP1P2M1M2M3	I1I2CP1P2M1M2M3	I1I2CP1P2M1M2M3
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Weight (kg)	Sitting height (mm)	Body length	Tail length	Sternum length	Upper arm length
64.4	840.0	498.0	0.0	0.0	335.0
Forearm length	Thigh length	Knee height	Calf length	Biacromial breadth	Pelvic breadth
318.0	230.0	0.0	273.0	328.0	309.0
Inter-trochanteric breadth	Inter-papillar breadth	Left-right chest distance	Upper-lower chest distance	Neck circumference	Chest circumference
279.0	179.0	267.0	216.0	0.0	988.0
Right arm circumference	Right thigh circumference	Calf circumference	Foot circumference	Head circumference	Head length
398.0	573.0	357.0	260.0	0.0	165.0
Head breadth	Bizygomatic breadth	Bigonial breadth	Upper face height	Face height	Nose height
134.0	144.0	99.0	86.0	118.0	52.0
External ear breadth	Inner ear breadth	Nose breadth	Total head height	Head height	Ear length
87.0	33.0	33.0	157.0	67.0	69.0
Ear breadth
59.0
Hand length 1	Hand length 2	Hand breadth	Thumb length	Middle finger length	Foot length
232.0	224.0	85.0	54.0	129.0	249.0
Foot breadth	Toe I length	Toe III length
62.0	59.0	88.0
Abdominal skinfold thickness	Triceps skinfold thickness	Thigh skinfold thickness	Back of waist skinfold thickness	Neck skinfold thickness	Underbust skinfold thickness
5.8	6.7	6.4	15.4	0.0	0.0
Iliocristale skinfold thickness	Abdominal circumference	Head and body length
16.7	849.0	0.0
Others
Testis 78(L) 62(W) 55(D) / 歯式右上Ｉ1根元から折れてる

Teat (Width)	Teat (Leng)	Teat (Wid) Left	Teat (Leng) Left
0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Testis Length	Testis Width	Testis Depth	Left Testis L	Left Testis W	Left Testis D
78.0	62.0	55.0	-	-	-

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Microarray

308912A02_532_RMA.calls.txt

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