Randall Kyes

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Randall Kyes, Ph.D.

Research Professor; Adj. Research Prof., Global Health; Director, Cnt. of Global Field Study
(206) 619-5765
Advising: Not accepting new graduate students in 2025-2026.
Interests: Primate Behavior, Conservation Biology, Population Assessment, Human-Wildlife Interface, Disaster Mental Health

Research

My work involves extensive international collaboration in a number of habitat countries including Bangladesh, China, India, Indonesia, Laos, Mexico, Nepal, and Thailand, Our collaborative research focuses on population assessment, habitat analysis, conservation genetics, and pathogen transmission in primates and other megafauna with special emphasis on the human-animal-environment interface.

We also conduct annual field training programs in a number of countries: "Field Course in Conservation Biology & Global Health: At the Human-Environment Interface."

https://depts.washington.edu/cgfs/

Education

University of Georgia

  • Koju NP, Buzzard P, Shrestha A, Sharma S, Kai H, Li J, Kyes RC, Chen C, Beisch W (2024). Habitat overlap and interspecific competition between snow leopards and leopards in the central Himalayas of Nepal. Global Ecology and Conservation, 52;e02953. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gecco.2024.e02953
  • Shrestha S, Sharma S, Kyes RC, Khanal L (2024). Comparative analysis of mother-infant interactions between free-ranging and captive rhesus macaques in Kathmandu, Nepal. J Anim Behav Biometeorol, 12:e2024011. doi.org/10.31893/jabb.2024011
  • Adhikari A, Koju NP, Maharjan B, Khanal L, Upreti M, Kyes RC (2023). Gastro-intestinal parasites of urban rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta) in the Kathmandu Valley, Nepal. Intl Jr Parasitology: Parasites and Wildlife, 22, 175-183. doi.org/10.1016/j.ijppaw.2023.10.007
  • Khanal L, Upadhyaya LP, Pandey N, Chand DB, Kark M, Chalise MK, Kyes RC (2023). Projected distribution of the westernmost subpopulation of Assamese macaques (Macaca assamensis pelops) under climate change: Conservation implications of a threatened population. Frontiers in Conser Sci, 4:1235595. doi.org/10.3389/fcosc.2023.1235595
  • Paudel J, Khanal L, Pandey N, Timilsina L, Sunar CB, Thapa B, Bhatta CR, Pant RR, Kyes RC. (2023). Determinants of herpetofaunal diversity in a threatened wet-land ecosystem: A case study of the Ramaroshan Wetland Complex, Western Nepal. Animals, 13, 135. doi.org/10.3390/ani13010135
  • Pumipuntu N, Tanee T, Kyes P, Thamsenanupap P, Karaket A, Kyes RC (2023). Leptospira seroprevalence in free ranging long-tailed macaques (Macaca fascicularis) at Kosumpee Forest Park, Maha Sarakham, Thailand. Infect. Dis. Rep., 15, 16–23. doi.org/10.3390/idr15010002
  • Pumipuntu N, Tanee T, Thamsenanupap P, Kyes P, Karaket A, Kyes RC (2023). Molecular characterization of Staphylococcus aureus complex isolated from free-ranging long-tailed macaques at Kosumpee Forest Park, Maha Sarakham, Thailand. Tropical Med Infect Disease, 8, 374. doi.org/10.3390/tropicalmed8070374
  • Tandan S, Kshetri S, Poudel S, Dhakal P, Kyes RC, Khanal L (2023). Prevalence of gastrointestinal helminth parasites in rhesus macaques and local residents in the central mid-hills of Nepal. Helminths, 60, 327-325. doi.org/10.2478/helm-2023-0037
  • Monecke S, Roberts MC, Braun SD, Diezel C, Müller E, Reinicke M, Linde J, Joshi PR, Paudel S, Acharya M, Chalise MK, Feßler AT, Hotzel H, Khanal L, Koju NP, Schwarz S, Kyes RC, Ehricht R (2022). Sequence analysis of novel Staphylococcus aureus lineages from wild and captive macaques. Intl J Molecular Sci., 22, 11225. doi.org/10.3390/ijms231911225
  • Pumipuntu N, Chamnandee T, Saengthong K, Pathomthanasarn S, Tanee T, Kyes P, Thamsenanupap P, Karaket A, Roberts MC, Kyes RC (2022). Investigation of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), methicillin-susceptible S. aureus (MSSA) and Staphylococcus argenteus from wild long-tailed macaques (Macaca fascicularis) at Kosumpee Forest Park, Maha Sarakham, Thailand. Veterinary World, 15(11), 2693-2698. doi.org/10.14202/vetworld.2022.2693-2698
  • Kyes RC, Iskandar E, Paputungan U, Onibala J, Laatung S, Huettman F (2013). Long-term population survey of the Sulawesi black macaques (Macaca nigra) at Tangkoko Nature Reserve, North Sulawesi, Indonesia. American Journal of Primatology, 75, 88-94.
  • Kyes RC, Iskandar E, Pamungkus J. (2011). Preliminary survey of the longtailed macaques (Macaca fascicularis) on Java, Indonesia: Distribution and human-primate conflict. In M. Gumert, A. Fuentes, L. Jones-Engel (Eds.), Monkeys on the Edge: Ecology and Management of Long-tailed Macaques and their Interface with Humans (pg. 65-69). Cambridge Univ. Press.
  • Frederick C, Kyes RC, Hunt K, Collins D, Durrant B, Wasser S. (2010). Methods of estrus detection and correlates of the reproductive cycle in the sun bear (Helarctos malayanus). Theriogenology, 74, 1121-1135.
  • Perwitasari-Farajallah D, Kyes RC, Iskandar I (2010). Microsatellite DNA polymorphisms for colony management of long-tailed macaques (Macaca fascicularis): A pilot study in the Tinjil Island population. Journal of Biological Diversity (Biodiversitas), 11(2), 55-58.
  • Kyes, RC, Jones-Engel L, Chalise MK, Engel G, Heidrich J, Grant R, Bajimaya SS, McDonough J, Smith DG, Ferguson B. (2006). Genetic Characterization of rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta) in Nepal. American Journal of Primatology, 68, 445-455.