Lucie Rigaill, D. Sc.
French, born the 9th April 1988 (Villecresnes, France)

Contact information
Kyoto University Primate Research Institute41-2 Kanrin, Inuyama, Aichi, Japan, 484-8506

URL: www.cicasp.pri.kyoto-u.ac.jp/people/lucie-rigaill#
Email 1: rigaill.lucie.2c@kyoto-u.ac.jp
Email 2: lucie.rigaill@gmail.com

Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.co.jp/citations?user=qxBn30MAAAAJ&hl=en
ORCID: orcid.org/0000-0001-7040-3188

Employment History
2020 ~ 2021

Research Associate at CICASP
Kyoto University Primate Research Institute (Inuyama, Japan)

2017 ~ 2020

Program-Specific Assistant Professor,
Kyoto University Primate Research Institute (Inuyama, Japan)

2017 ~ .

Chercheur associé (Honorary Researcher)
UMR 7206 CNRS-MNHN, Musée de l’Homme (Paris, France)

Education History
2013 ~ 2017

D. Sc. in Biological Science, Kyoto University Primate Research Institute, Japan

2009 ~ 2011

M. Sc. in Physical Anthropology, University of Aix-Marseille 2, France

2006 ~ 2009 B. Sc. in Cellular Biology and Physiology, University of Paris 7, France

Research Keywords• Mating behavior • Reproductive Endocrinology • Sexual communication • Female signals • Perception• Digital photography • Human and non-human primates

Research grants
2018 ~ 2020

Grant-in-Aid for Research Activity start-up from the Japan Society for the Promotion ofScience (JSPS), Japan (project 18H05810, JPY2.470.000)

2017

International Primatological Society Research Grant (US$1.000 ~ JPY107.761)

2015 ~ 2017

Grant-in-Aid for JSPS Fellows from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science JSPS,Japan (project 15J01067, JPY1.900.000)

Competitive awards and scholarships
2016

Best Poster Award–First Prize: Face color indicates female reproductive state but not quality inJapanese macaques, 5th International Symposium on Primatology and Wildlife Science, Japan2014

Heiwa Nakajima Scholarship for Foreign Students, Japan2013

Honors scholarship for Privately Financed International Student JASSO, Japan

2011

Best Presentation Award–First Prize (€750 ~ JPY88.214): Sexual signals and mating behavior
in olive baboons, XXIVe Colloque de la Société Francophone de Primatologie, France
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Scientific Education and Outreach ~ since 2018
• Instructor in Animal behavior, Kyoto University (Lecturer: AJJ MacIntosh)• Member of the Leading Graduate Program in Primatology and Wildlife Science (Kyoto Univ., Japan)• Member of the Organizing team of Nerd Nite Inuyama (CICASP activity launched in 2018)

Other professional experience• ad hoc reviewer: American Journal of Primatology, International Journal of Primatology, Primates, Ethology
Ecology & Evolution, Leakey Foundation (research grant)• Professional memberships: Société Francophone de Primatologie (Member of the Administration Board),
Primate Society of Japan, Société d’Anthropologie de Paris, International Primatological Society, et Leading
Graduate Program for Primatology and Wildlife Science.

Production Scientifique
1.

L Rigaill, JP Higham, S Winters, C Garcia (2019) The redder the better? Information content of red skincoloration in female Japanese macaques. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 73(8):103.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00265-019-2712-x

2.

L Rigaill, N Suda-Hashimoto, L Ducroix, K Mouri, T Furuichi, C Garcia (2017) Testing for links between
female urine and male sexual behaviors in Japanese macaques. International Journal of Primatology
38(5):823-837. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10764-017-9980-y

3.

L Rigaill, AJJ MacIntosh, JP Higham, S Winters, K Shimizu, K Mouri, T Suzumura, T Furuichi, C Garcia(2017) Testing for links between face color and age, dominance status, parity, weight and intestinal
nematode infection in female Japanese macaques. Primates 58(1):83-91. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10329016-0575-6

4.

C Garcia, F Bercovitch, T Furuichi, MA Huffman, AJJ Macintosh, L Rigaill, RSC Takeshita, K Shimizu(2016) Ten years of collaboration between France and Japan-Studies on reproduction in Japanese macaques.
Revue de Primatologie 7 10.4000/primatologie.2666

5.

L Rigaill, AJJ MacIntosh, JP Higham, S Winters, K Shimizu, K Mouri, T Furuichi, C Garcia (2015)
Multimodal advertisement of pregnancy in free-ranging female Japanese macaques (Macaca fuscata). PLoS
ONE 10(8): e0135127. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0135127

6.

L Rigaill (2014) Multimodal ovulatory signaling in human and non-human primates. Bulletins et Mémoiresde la Société d’Anthropologie de Paris. 26 (2-3):161-165 https://doi.org/10.1007/s13219-014-0108-z

7.

RSC Takeshita, FB Bercovitch, MA Huffman, K Mouri, C Garcia, L Rigaill, K Shimizu (2014)
Environmental, biological, and social factors influencing fecal adrenal steroid concentrations in female
Japanese macaques (Macaca fuscata). American Journal of Primatology 76 (11), 1084-1093

8.

L Rigaill, JP Higham, PC Lee, A Blin, C Garcia (2013) Multimodal sexual signaling and mating behavior in
olive baboons (Papio anubis). American Journal of Primatology 75 (7):774–787.
https://doi.org/10.1002/ajp.22154

Preprint: L Rigaill (2019) Information content of cheek and lip colour in relation to the timing of ovulation inwomen. BioRxiv https://doi.org/10.1101/859801
Invited Contribution: L Rigaill & A Maille. Reproduction et systèmes sociaux, Atlas des Carnivores et desPrimates de France (expected in 2020, brochure)Media: C Garcia & L Rigaill. Pourquoi les macaques japonais ont-ils le visage et les fesses rouges ? TheConversation, October 20192/4

Communications Scientifiques*presenting author, O : oral communication, P : poster

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32ème colloque de la Société Francophone De Primatologie, Parc de Branféré, France (October 2019) LRigaill*. Sur mes lèvres : Des informations sur la probabilité d’ovulation transmises du bout du lèvres ? O

2.

EFP-PSGB international conference, Oxford, UK (September 2019) L Rigaill*. Read my lips: Does lips
colouration contain information about the timing of ovulation in women? O3.

12th International Symposium on Primatology and Wildlife Science, Inuyama, Japan (September 2019)
L Rigaill*. Sealed lips don’t deceive: Lip coloration informs about ovulation probability. P

4.

31ème colloque de la Société Francophone De Primatologie, Paris, France (October 2018) L Rigaill*. La
coloration des lèvres: un indice de l’ovulation chez l’humain ? O, abstract: Revue de Primatologie, 2018
Varia(9) doi : 10.4000/primatologie.3836

5.

10th International Symposium on Primatology and Wildlife Science, Kyoto, Japan (September 2018) LRigaill*. Read my lips: when the red gets redder. O

6.

34th congress of the Primate Society of Japan, Tokyo, Japan (July 2018) L Rigaill*. Women lips coloration
as a signal of fertility and quality. O, abstract: Primate Research Supplement, doi :10.14907/primate.34.0_33_3

7.

The 87th Annual Meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists Austin, USA (April2018) SE Kessler*, L Rigaill, SE Street. Levels of selection: Untangling kin and individual signatures invocalizations. P, abstract: American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 2018, 165:138-138

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7th European Federation for Primatology Meeting, Strasbourg, France (August 2017) L Rigaill*, AJJ
MacIntosh, JP Higham, S Winters, T Furuichi, C Garcia. Face color indicates female reproductive state but
not individual characteristics in Japanese macaques (Macaca fuscata). O, abstract: Folia Primatologica, 2017
88(2) doi : 10.1159/000479094

9.

7th European Federation for Primatology Meeting, Strasbourg, France (August 2017) C Garcia*, LRigaill, F Bercovitch, T Furuichi, MA Huffman, AJJ Macintosh, RSC Takeshita, K Shimizu. 10 years ofcollaboration between France and Japan-Studies on reproduction in Japanese macaques. P, abstract: Folia
Primatologica, 2017 88(2) doi : 10.1159/000479094

10. 47ème Colloque Société Française pour l’Etude du Comportement Animal, Gif-sur-Yvette, France (May2017) L Rigaill*, AJJ MacIntosh, JP Higham, S Winters, T Furuichi, C Garcia. Impact des signaux sexuels
multiples des femelles sur les stratégies de reproduction chez le babouin olive et le macaque Japonais. O
11. XXIXe Colloque de la Société Francophone de Primatologie, Paimpont, France (October 2016) CGarcia*, L Rigaill, AJJ MacIntosh, JP Higham, S Winters, K Shimizu, K Mouri, T Furuichi. Existe-t-il desvariations de la couleur de la face en fonction de l'âge, la dominance, la parité, le poids, et l'infection parasitaire
intestinale chez des femelles macaques japonais (Macaca fuscata)? O
12. Seminar on Japanese macaque research, Inuyama, Japan (June 2016) L Rigaill*, N Suda-Hashimoto, LDucroix, K Mouri, T Furuichi, C Garcia. Does female urine modulate male sexual behaviors in Japanesemacaques? P
13. XXVIIIe Colloque de la Société Francophone de Primatologie, Strasbourg, France (October 2015) CGarcia*, L Rigaill, AJJ MacIntosh, JP Higham, S Winters, K Shimizu, K Mouri, T Furuichi. Signalisation
mutlimodale de la gestation chez le macaque japonais (Macaca fuscata). O, abstract: Revue de Primatologie,
2016 Varia(6) doi : 10.4000/primatologie.2346
14. 6th European Federation for Primatology Meeting, Rome, Italy (August 2015) L Rigaill*, AJJ MacIntosh,
JP Higham, S Winters, K Shimizu, K Mouri, T Furuichi, C Garcia. Female Japanese macaques advertize
pregnancy in multiple modalities. O, abstract: Folia Primatologica 2015, doi : 10.1159/000435825
15. The 5th International Symposium on Primatology and Wildlife Science, Inuyama, Japan (March 2016)
L Rigaill*, AJJ MacIntosh, JP Higham, K Shimizu, K Mouri, T Suzumura, T Furuichi, C Garcia. Face colorindicates female reproductive state but not quality in Japanese macaques (Macaca fuscata). P

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16. 31st Congress of the Primate Society of Japan, Kyoto, Japan (July2015) L Rigaill*, AJJ MacIntosh, JPHigham, S Winters, K Shimizu, K Mouri, T Furuichi, C Garcia. Multiple sexual signals of pregnancy inJapanese macaques. O, abstract: Primate Research Supplement doi : 10.14907/primate.31.0_72_2
17. International Seminar on Biodiversity and Evolution, Kyoto, Japan (June 2014) L Rigaill*, JP Higham,PC Lee, C Garcia. Multiple sexual cues and mating strategies in captive olive baboons (Papio anubis). P
18. EFOR Seminar: Reproductive function in non-human primates, Paris, France (March 2015) C Garcia*& L Rigaill. Multimodal sexual signaling and mating behavior in non-human primates. O
19. The 3rd International Symposium on Primatology and Wildlife Science, Kyoto, Japan (March 2015) LRigaill*, AJJ MacIntosh, JP Higham, T Furuichi, C Garcia. Honest sexual advertisements of pregnancy infemale Japanese macaques (Macaca fuscata). P
20. XXVth Congress of the International Primatology Society, Hanoi, Vietnam (August 2014) L Rigaill*, JPHigham, PC Lee, C Garcia. Multimodal sexual signaling and mating behaviors in olive baboons. O
21. XXVth Congress of the International Primatology Society, Hanoi, Vietnam (August 2014) RS Takeshita*,
FB Bercovitch, MA Huffman, K Mouri, C Garcia, L Rigaill, K Shimizu. Environmental, biological and socialfactors influencing fecal adrenal steroid concentrations in female Japanese macaques (Macaca fuscata). O
22. 29th Congress of the Primate Society of Japan, Okayama, Japan (September 2013) L Rigaill*, JP Higham,PC Lee, C Garcia. Multimodal ovulatory signaling in olive baboons. O
23. Société d’Anthropologie de Paris, Paris, France (January 2012) L Rigaill*, JP Higham, PC Lee, C Garcia.
Multimodal sexual communication and mating behaviors in olive baboons. P
24. XXIVe Colloque de la Société Francophone de Primatologie, Grenoble, France (October 2011) LRigaill*, C Garcia. Signaux sexuels et comportement reproducteur chez le babouin olive. O

Invited Seminars
2018 Investigating the evolution of female red skin color in primate species Annual Meeting of the Research Units for
Exploring Future Horizons 2018, Kyoto University Research Coordination Alliance (Kyoto, Japan, January 26th)
2018 Communication sexuelle des primates humains et non-humains UMR 7206-MNHN Eco-Anthropologie (Paris,France, October 23rd)

Media coverage
A study in scarlet Japanese macaques EurekAlert, Jul. 2019
What do the red “ornaments” of female macaques mean? CNRS (cnrs.fr), Jul. 2019
Pourquoi les femelles macaques ont-elles les fesses rouges ? Le Figaro, Sept. 20194/4