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Michael A. Huffman

Michael A. Huffman

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Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
61
Citations
11405
World Ranking
11512
National Ranking
792

Overview

Michael A. Huffman is affiliated with Kyoto University in Japan. Their research primarily spans psychology with a notable focus on social psychology alongside interconnected fields such as ecology, plant science, and developmental biology. The scholar's work spans a multidisciplinary approach combining behavioral studies and ecological contexts.

Their publication record includes significant contributions to topics such as primate behavior and ecology, wildlife ecology and conservation, animal vocal communication and behavior, and animal behavior and reproduction. Additionally, they have engaged with ethnobotanical and medicinal plant studies, human-animal interaction research, and education related to animal and plant sciences.

Recent papers authored by associates in their research network cover a range of ecological and behavioral subjects. These include:

  • Asian elephant self-medication as a source of ethnoveterinary knowledge among Karen mahouts in northern Thailand, 2020, Journal of Ethnopharmacology
  • Pharmacological and behavioral investigation of putative self-medicative plants in Budongo chimpanzee diets, 2024, PLoS ONE
  • Co-cultures: exploring interspecies culture among humans and other animals, 2024, Trends in Ecology & Evolution
  • The Banj oak Quercus leucotrichophora as a potential mitigating factor for human-langur interactions in the Garhwal Himalayas, India: People's perceptions and ecological importance, 2020, Global Ecology and Conservation
  • The ecology and epidemiology of malaria parasitism in wild chimpanzee reservoirs, 2022, Communications Biology

Their frequent collaborators include Klaus Zuberbühler, Cédric Sueur, Charmalie Nahallage, Elodie Freymann, and Susana Carvalho, indicating a diverse and international professional network.

Publication venues for their work are varied, reflecting the interdisciplinary nature of their research. Notable outlets include PLoS ONE, Journal of Ethnopharmacology, Trends in Ecology & Evolution, Current Biology, and Global Ecology and Conservation.

Best Publications

  • Animal self-medication and ethno-medicine: exploration and exploitation of the medicinal properties of plants

    Michael A. Huffman

  • Current evidence for self-medication in primates: A multidisciplinary perspective

    Michael A. Huffman

  • Observations on the illness and consumption of a possibly medicinal plantVernonia amygdalina (Del.), by a wild chimpanzee in the Mahale Mountains National Park, Tanzania

    Michael A. Huffman;Mohamedi Seifu

  • Seasonal trends in intestinal nematode infection and medicinal plant use among chimpanzees in the Mahale Mountains, Tanzania

    Michael A. Huffman;Shunji Gotoh;Linda A. Turner;Miya Hamai;Miya Hamai

  • Self-Medicative Behavior in the African Great Apes: An Evolutionary Perspective into the Origins of Human Traditional Medicine

    Michael A. Huffman

  • Monkeys in the Middle: Parasite Transmission through the Social Network of a Wild Primate

    Andrew J. J. MacIntosh;Armand Jacobs;Cécile Garcia;Keiko Shimizu

  • Marked variation between winter and spring gut microbiota in free-ranging Tibetan Macaques (Macaca thibetana)

    Binghua Sun;Xi Wang;Sofi Bernstein;Michael A. Huffman

  • Acquisition of innovative cultural behaviors in nonhuman primates A case study of stone handling, a socially transmitted behavior in Japanese macaques

    Michael A. Huffman

  • Descriptive epidemiology of fatal respiratory outbreaks and detection of a human-related metapneumovirus in wild chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) at Mahale Mountains National Park, Western Tanzania.

    Taranjit Kaur;Jatinder Singh;Suxiang Tong;Charles Humphrey

  • Bitter steroid glucosides, vernoniosides A1, A2, and A3, and related B1 from a possible medicinal plant, Vernonia amygdalina, used by wild chimpanzees.

    Mitsuo Jisaka;Hajime Ohigashi;Teruyoshi Takagaki;Hiroshi Nozaki

  • MEDICINAL PROPERTIES IN THE DIET OF GORILLAS: AN ETHNO-PHARMACOLOGICAL EVALUATION

    Don Cousins;Michael A. Huffman

  • The Biology of Traditions: Biological and ecological foundations of primate behavioral tradition

    Michael A. Huffman;Satoshi Hirata

  • Molecular ecology and natural history of Simian foamy virus infection in wild-living chimpanzees

    Weimin Liu;Michael Worobey;Yingying Li;Brandon F. Keele

  • Stone-play of Macaca fuscata in Arashiyama B troop: Transmission of a non-adaptive behavior

    Michael A. Huffman

  • Leaf-swallowing by chimpanzees: A behavioral adaptation for the control of strongyle nematode infections

    Michael A. Huffman;Michael A. Huffman;Jonathan E. Page;Michael V. K. Sukhdeo;Shunji Gotoh

  • Factors Affecting Party Size in Chimpanzees of the Mahale Mountains

    Akiko Matsumoto-Oda;Kazuhiko Hosaka;Michael A. Huffman;Kenji Kawanaka

  • Japanese macaque cultures: Inter- and intra-troop behavioural variability of stone handling patterns across 10 troops

    Jean-Baptiste Leca;Noëlle Gunst;Michael A. Huffman

  • Use of Vernonia amygdalina by wild chimpanzee : possible roles of its bitter and related constituents

    Koichi Koshimizu;Hajime Ohigashi;Michael A. Huffman

  • Self-induced Increase of Gut Motility and the Control of Parasitic Infections in Wild Chimpanzees

    MA Huffman;Judith Caton;Judith Caton

  • Reproductive parameters of female Japanese macaques: Thirty years data from the arashiyama troops, Japan

    Naoki Koyama;Yukio Takahata;Michael A. Huffman;Koshi Norikoshi

Frequent Co-Authors

Koichi Koshimizu
Koichi Koshimizu Kindai University
Paul L. Vasey
Paul L. Vasey University of Lethbridge
Hajime Ohigashi
Hajime Ohigashi Kyoto University
Masaki Tomonaga
Masaki Tomonaga University of Human Environments
William C. Mahaney
William C. Mahaney York University
Colin A. Chapman
Colin A. Chapman Vancouver Island University
David Modrý
David Modrý University of Veterinary and Pharmaceutical Sciences
Klára J. Petrželková
Klára J. Petrželková Czech Academy of Sciences
Michael Wink
Michael Wink Heidelberg University
Richard W. Wrangham
Richard W. Wrangham Harvard University

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