A special symposium on comparative cetacean-primate behavior will be held at the upcoming Joint Meeting of the International Primatological Society and American Society for Primatologists in Chicago, August 21-27 (http://www.ipschicago.org/).

The symposium, "Towards a Better Understanding of Social Convergence between Cetaceans and Primates" will be held on August 22. Further details on symposium speakers and abstracts may be found here: https://www.asp.org/IPS/meetings/conferenceschedule.cfm?year=2016&day=104#6433

Heidi Pearson, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Marine Biology

University of Alaska Southeast

11120 Glacier Hwy, AND1

Juneau, AK 99801

907-796-6271

hcpearson@alaska.edu