Abstract
Toshisada Nishida, a pioneer in the study of primate behavior, died on June 7, 2011 following a prolonged battle with cancer. He was 70 years old. Nishida began his career while still an undergraduate student at Kyoto University, where he was inspired by Kinji Imanishi. In 1962, he investigated interactions between two groups of Formosan macaques that had been translocated to Japan. He followed this in 1963 with a study of Japanese macaques living at the northern limit of their geographical distribution. He continued to study Japanese macaques from 1964 to 1965 for his Master’s thesis at Kyoto. Working under the supervision of Junichiro Itani, he described the life of solitary male macaques and how they transfer Int J Primatol (2012) 33:10–18 DOI 10.1007/s10764-011-9571-2
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