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2025.9.11.
  Chimpanzee : Marta gave birth to a baby(gender undetermined).

2025.8.24.
  Gibbon : Koko gave birth to a baby(gender undetermined).

2025.8.19.
  Orangutan : Jurry died.

2025.7.11.
  Orangutan : Kiki gave birth to a baby boy.

2025.7.3.
  Gibbon : Mir was moved from the previous facilities.

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Takeshi Nishimura, Isao T. Tokuda, Shigehiro Miyachi, Jacob C. Dunn, Christian T. Herbst, Kazuyoshi Ishimura, Akihisa Kaneko, Yuki Kinoshita, Hiroki Koda, Jaap P. P. Saers, Hirohiko Imai, Tetsuya Matsuda, Ole Næsbye Larsen, Uwe Jürgens, Hideki Hirabayashi, Shozo Kojima, W. Tecumseh Fitch(2022) Evolutionary loss of complexity in human vocal anatomy as an adaptation for speech
*Science*, Vol 377, Issue 6607, pp. 760-763
https://doi.org/10.1126/science.abm1574

Kristin Havercamp, Koshiro Watanuki, Masaki Tomonaga, Tetsuro Matsuzawa, Satoshi Hirata(2019) Longevity and mortality of captive chimpanzees in Japan from 1921 to 2018
*Primates*, 60: 525-535
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10329-019-00755-8

Ryuri Tachikawa , Koshiro Watanuki , Yuta Shintaku , Naoki Okabe , Kosuke Takeda , Dai Hirose(2025) Malassezia japonica isolated from the cerumen of Cercopithecidae and Hylobatidae
*Medical Mycology*, myaf078
https://doi.org/10.1093/mmy/myaf078

Sakuraya T, Sonomura T, Emura K, Hirasaki E, Iwata T, Katsumata A, Arakawa T.(2025) Evolutionary Implications of the Human Soleus Muscle Based on the Comparative Anatomy of Detailed Intramuscular Nerve Distribution Patterns in Primates.
*J Morphol*, vol 286(2), e70035
https://doi.org/10.1002/jmor.70035

Torres-Tamayo N, Buck LT, Hirasaki E, Rae TC, Betti L.(2025) Variation in Pubic Symphysis Fusion Across Primates: Implications for Obstetric Adaptation.
*Am J Biol Anthropol*, vol.186(2), e25064
https://doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.25064

Results of GAIN

There are 102 species of nonhuman primates kept in the zoos and other facilities in Japan.

The count is at the point of March 31 2015 and excludes the hybrids and miscellaneous individuals.