Junichiro Itani, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Junichiro Itani

Japanese primatologist

Date of Birth: 09-May-1926

Place of Birth: Tottori, Tottori Prefecture, Japan

Date of Death: 19-Aug-2001

Profession: zoologist, university teacher, anthropologist

Nationality: Japan

Zodiac Sign: Taurus

Junichiro Itani (?? ???, Itani Jun'ichiro, May 9, 1926 – August 19, 2001) is considered a founder of the discipline of Japanese primatology.
He was an internationally renowned anthropologist and served as a professor emeritus at Kyoto University.
He died at age 75 of pneumonia.
As with most Japanese primatologists, his early research was on Japanese monkeys (Macaca fuscata), but most of his career focused on African primates, especially chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes).