Toshisada Nishida, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Japanese scientist
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Place of Birth: Kyōto Prefecture, Japan
About Toshisada Nishida
- Toshisada Nishida (March 3, 1941 – June 7, 2011) was a Japanese primatologist who established one of the first long term chimpanzee field research sites, in 1965, and was the first to discover that, instead of forming nuclear family-like arrangements, chimpanzees live a communal life with territorial boundaries.
- He also laid the basis for the new field of zoopharmacognosy on discovering the potentially medicinal use of plants by wild chimpanzees.
- He was full professor in the Zoology Department of Kyoto University.
- Toshisada Nishida received the Leakey Prize for his accomplishments in human evolutionary science.
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