Kodzue Kinoshita

Profile Information

Affiliation: Associate Professor, Graduate School of Asian and African Area Studies Division of Southeast Asian Area Studies, Kyoto University
: (Concurrent)Wildlife Research Center
: twinstrust

Degree: Ph.D(Sep, 2011)

ORCID iD: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5804-5485
J-GLOBAL ID: 201401031052129347
researchmap Member ID: 7000010381

External link: https://www.kodzue-kinoshita.com/

I study on conservative physiology of endangered species with researchers, zoo/aquariums, and NPO/NGO staffs in Japan and overseas. Also, I perform the outreach activity that made use of result of the scientific study in an environmental education with zoos, NPO/NGO and companies.

Research Interests

Research Areas

Research History

Apr, 2023 - Present

Associate Professor, Graduate School of Asian and African Area Studies Division of Southeast Asian Area Studies, Kyoto University
Apr, 2017 - Mar, 2023

Assistant Professor, Wildlife Research Center, Kyoto University
Sep, 2014 - Mar, 2017

Assistant Professor, Primate Research Institute, Kyoto University
Nov, 2016 - Jan, 2017

Expert, MAB Networking Section, UNESCO
Apr, 2012 - Aug, 2014

JSPS postdoctoral fellow, Wildlife Research Center, Kyoto University
Oct, 2011 - Mar, 2012

postdoctoral fellow, Aguricultural Science, Kobe Univeristy

Education

Apr, 2009 - Sep, 2011

Graduate School of Agricultural Science, Kobe University
Apr, 2007 - Mar, 2009

Faunal Diversity Sciences,Department of Bioresource Science, Agricultural Science, Kobe University
Apr, 2003 - Mar, 2007

Natural Environmental Science, Department of Human Development, Kobe University

Committee Memberships

Apr, 2022 - Present

国際交流・アジア保全医学会委員理事長, 日本野生動物医学会
Apr, 2019 - Present

学会誌編集委員, 日本野生動物医学会
Apr, 2021 - Mar, 2023

専門委委員, ツシマヤマネコ野生復帰技術検討ワーキンググループ
Apr, 2019 - Mar, 2022

国際交流・アジア保全医学会委員副理事, 日本野生動物医学会
Jul, 2017 - Jun, 2019

渉外幹事, 日本霊長類学会
Apr, 2016 - Mar, 2019

ニュースレター編集委員副理事, 日本野生動物医学会

Major Awards

Aug, 2018

奨励賞, 生息域内外における保全繁殖学研究, 日本野生動物医学会

木下こづえ
Nov, 2014

NIR Advance Award, 近赤外分光法を用いた野生動物の生理モニタリング技術の開発, 近赤外研究会

木下こづえ
Mar, 2011

六篠奨励賞, 神戸大学

木下こづえ

Papers

Tourism impacts on fecal glucocorticoid metabolites of free-ranging mountain gorillas in Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, Uganda

Ryoma Otsuka, Gladys Kalema-Zikusoka, Gen Yamakoshi, Kodzue Kinoshita

bioRxiv, preprint, Jan, 2026 Last author
Sodium Availability and Fecal Aldosterone Concentration of Wild and Captive Japanese Macaques and Sika Deer

Goro Hanya, Naoki Agetsuma, Yoshimi Agetsuma-Yanagihara, Toru Oi, Takashi Kondo, Yoshiyuki Tabuse, Takafumi Suzumura, Tianmeng He, Takeaki Honda, Tamihisa Ohta …

Mammal Study, 50(4), Jun 30, 2025 Peer-reviewedLast author
A newly discovered woolly mammoth molar from off the Notsuke Peninsula in Hokkaido, Japan

Keiichi Takahashi, Sanjeeta Sharma Pokharel, Kodzue Kinoshita, Kazuhito Ishiwata, Yuji Soeda

Journal of Fossil Research, 57 50-57, Jan, 2025 Peer-reviewed
Metabarcoding analysis provides insight into the link between prey and plant intake in a large alpine cat carnivore, the snow leopard

Hiroto Yoshimura, Takashi Hayakawa, Dale M. Kikuchi, Kubanychbek Zhumabai Uulu, Huiyuan Qi, Taro Sugimoto, Koustubh Sharma, Kodzue Kinoshita

Royal Society Open Science, 11(5), May 29, 2024 Peer-reviewedLast author
Exogenous oxytocin increases gaze to humans in male cats

Madoka Hattori, Kodzue Kinoshita, Atsuko Saito, Shinya Yamamoto

Scientific Reports, 14(1), Apr 18, 2024 Peer-reviewed
A cost-effective blood DNA methylation-based age estimation method in domestic cats, Tsushima leopard cats (Prionailurus bengalensis euptilurus) and Panthera species, using targeted bisulphite sequencing and machine learning models.

Huiyuan Qi, Qi Luan Lim, Kodzue Kinoshita, Nobuyoshi Nakajima, Miho Inoue-Murayama

Molecular ecology resources, e13928, Jan 18, 2024 Peer-reviewed
Increased urinary creatinine during hibernation and day roosting in the Eastern bent-winged bat (Miniopterus fuliginosus) in Korea.

Heungjin Ryu, Kodzue Kinoshita, Sungbae Joo, Yu-Seong Choi, Sun-Sook Kim

Communications biology, 7(1) 42-42, Jan 5, 2024 Peer-reviewed
Mineral acquisition of Japanese macaques: Contents in the foods, digestibility, and sodium‐provisioning experiment

Hanya G, Ohta T, Kurihara Y, Sawada A, Shiroishi I, Kinoshita K

American Journal of Primatology, May, 2023 Peer-reviewedLast author
Factors affecting captive female giraffe stress response: Male presence, small enclosure, and low temperature

Saito M, Matsunaga M, Fukuizumi H, Nakamichi, Kinoshita K

Zoo Biology, May, 2023 Peer-reviewedLast author
Characteristics of urine spraying and scraping the ground with hind paws as scent-marking of captive cheetahs (Acinonyx jubatus)

Kinoshita K, Suzuki M, Sasaki Y, Yonezawa A, Kamitani H, Okuda R, Ishikawa T, Tsukui K, Kohshima S

Scientific Reports, 2022 Peer-reviewedLead authorCorresponding author
Age estimation using methylation-sensitive high-resolution melting (MS-HRM) in both healthy felines and those with chronic kidney disease

Huiyuan Qi, Kodzue Kinoshita, Takashi Mori, Kaori Matsumoto, Yukiko Matsui, Miho Inoue-Murayama

Scientific Reports, 11(1), Dec, 2021 Peer-reviewed
Plant‐eating carnivores: Multispecies analysis on factors influencing the frequency of plant occurrence in obligate carnivores

Hiroto Yoshimura, Satoshi Hirata, Kodzue Kinoshita

Ecology and Evolution, 11(16) 10968-10983, Jul 22, 2021 Peer-reviewed
A field‐friendly method of measuring faecal glucocorticoid metabolite concentration as a simple stress checker in snow leopards

Kodzue Kinoshita

Methods in Ecology and Evolution, Jul 6, 2021 Peer-reviewedLead authorLast authorCorresponding author
Urinary creatinine varies with microenvironment and sex in hibernating Greater Horseshoe bats (Rhinolophus ferrumequinum) in Korea

Heungjin Ryu, Kodzue Kinoshita, Sungbae Joo, Sun-Sook Kim

BMC Ecology and Evolution, 21(1), May 4, 2021 Peer-reviewed
Correction to: Comparative analysis of sperm motility in liquid and seminal coagulum portions between Bornean orangutan (Pongo pygmaeus) and chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes).

Kodzue Kinoshita, Yoriko Indo, Tomoyuki Tajima, Noko Kuze, Etsuko Miyakawa, Toshio Kobayashi, Tomoyuki Nakamura, Mitsuaki Ogata, Fumihiko Okumura, Takashi Hayakawa …

Primates; journal of primatology, 62(3) 475-475, May, 2021
Comparative analysis of sperm motility in liquid and seminal coagulum portions between Bornean orangutan (Pongo pygmaeus) and chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes)

Kodzue Kinoshita, Yoriko Indo, Tomoyuki Tajima, Noko Kuze, Etsuko Miyakawa, Toshio Kobayashi, Tomoyuki Nakamura, Mitsuaki Ogata, Fumihiko Okumura, Takashi Hayakawa …

Primates, 62(3) 467-473, Jan 19, 2021 Peer-reviewedLead authorCorresponding author
The tail-tale of stress: an exploratory analysis of cortisol levels in the tail-hair of captive Asian elephants

Sanjeeta Sharma Pokharel, Hiroki Yoneda, Moe Yanagi, Raman Sukumar, Kodzue Kinoshita

PeerJ, 9 e10445-e10445, Jan 4, 2021 Peer-reviewedLast authorCorresponding author
Response to Drea et al.

Mika Shirasu, Satomi Ito, Akihiro Itoigawa, Takashi Hayakawa, Kodzue Kinoshita, Isao Munechika, Hiroo Imai, Kazushige Touhara

Current biology : CB, 30(22) R1357-R1358, Nov 16, 2020
Response to Kappeler.

Mika Shirasu, Satomi Ito, Akihiro Itoigawa, Takashi Hayakawa, Kodzue Kinoshita, Isao Munechika, Hiroo Imai, Kazushige Touhara

Current biology : CB, 30(22) R1360, Nov 16, 2020
Gynaecological diagnosis by ultrasound and the measurement of urinary sex steroid hormones in female orangutans

Kodzue Kinoshita, Tomoyuki Nakamura, Koichi Kimura, Mika Shimizu, Noko Kuze, Yasuhiko Ozaki

Veterinary Medicine and Science, 6(3) 612-616, Aug, 2020 Peer-reviewedLead authorCorresponding author

Major Misc.

排泄物中のホルモンから動物をとりまく環境を知る

木下こづえ

ヒトと動物の関係学会誌, 54 13-16, 2019 Invited
国際連合教育科学文化機関（UNESCO）の出向を終えて

木下こづえ

Zoo and Wildlife News, 44 7-9, Jun, 2017
野生動物におけるホルモン分析－できること・わかること－

木下こづえ

日本人類学会進化人類学分科会ニュースレター, 7-10, Sep, 2016 Invited
Near infrared spectra of body fluids reveal the relationship between water spectral pattern and the oestrous cycle

Kinoshita K, Tsenkova R

NIR news, 26(5) 4-5, 2015
Measurement of fecal progesterone in female dugongs (Dugong dugon)

Matsuo Y, Ichikawa K, Kinoshita K, Arai N

Proceeding of The 1st Design Symposium on Conservation of Ecosystem (SEASTAR2000), 2 55-58, 2014 Peer-reviewed
Spectral pattern of urinary water as a biomarker of estrous

Kinoshita K, Morita H, Tsenkova R

Protocol Exchange, 2013 Peer-reviewed
Near-infrared spectroscopy to monitor the timing of ovulation in Giant Panda (Ailuropoda melanoleuca) based on urinary steroid hormones

Kinoshita K, Morita H, Miyazaki M, Hama N, Ishikawa O, Kusunoki H, Tsenkova R

Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Near Infrared Spectroscopy, 639-644, 2009 Peer-reviewed

Major Books and Other Publications

特集希少野生動物の生息域外保全 : 遺伝資源保存で生命を未来につなぐ

田中千聖, 伊藤英之, 伊谷原一, 木下こづえ (Role: Contributor, 「「ストレス」を行動とホルモンから推測する－ツシマヤマネコの研究を例に)

エヌ・ティー・エス, Sep, 2023 (ISBN: 9784860438203)
霊長類学の百科事典 = The encyclopedia of primatology

日本霊長類学会 (Role: Contributor, 域外保全)

丸善出版, Jul, 2023 (ISBN: 9784621308042)
幻のユキヒョウ双子姉妹の標高4000m冒険記

木下こづえ, 木下さとみ (Role: Joint author)

扶桑社, Apr, 2023
どうぶつのわかっていること・わかっていないこと

木下さとみ (Role: Supervisor (editorial))

小学館プロダクション, Jul, 2022
野生動物：追いかけて、見つめて知りたいキミのこと

木下こづえ (Role: Joint editor, ホルモンから動物の＜こころ＞を知る)

京都通信社, 2018

Major Presentations

134

近赤外分光法を用いた野生動物の生理モニタリング技術の開発

木下こづえ

第30回記念近赤外フォーラム「NIR Advance Award受賞講演」，つくば, Nov, 2014 Invited

Teaching Experience

Oct, 2023 - Present

Environmental Ecology (Kyoto University)
野生動物学入門 (京都大学)
保全生物学 (京都大学)

Professional Memberships

Major Research Projects

Comparative quantification of extinction risk in feline species based on information on reproductive rates and age composition

Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B), Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Apr, 2020 - Mar, 2024
糞を用いた野生ユキヒョウの集団年齢構成および繁殖年齢の解明

二国間交流事業オープンパートナーシップ共同研究（キルギス共和国）, 日本学術振興会, Apr, 2020 - Mar, 2022

木下こづえ, 村山美穂, 杉本太郎, 菊地デイル万次郎

Social Activities

ユキヒョウを知ること・守ること

Guest

静岡科学館る・く・る, 研究者の話を聞こう！, Feb 2, 2025
ユキヒョウを通して動物園と野生動物、人と人のつながりをつくる

Guest

認定NPO法人野生生物保全論研究会（JWCS）, ワイルドライフカレッジ2014, Nov 27, 2024
野生のユキヒョウと生息国に暮らす人々のおはなし

Guest

神戸市立王子動物園, 世界ユキヒョウの日講演会, Oct 26, 2024
動物園から世界につながる―ユキヒョウを例に－

Guest

名古屋市立大学、名古屋市東山動植物園, Human Feedbackプロジェクト2024「動物とヒトとの共存―そのために私たちに何ができるか？－」, Mar 3, 2024
ユキヒョウ姉妹がやってくる！ユキヒョウをもっと好きになるイベント

Guest

大牟田市ともだちや絵本美術館, Oct 22, 2023
大型ネコ科動物の研究・保全活動に挑む～高山にくらすユキヒョウ～

Guest

天王寺動植物園, Oct 15, 2023
【いしかわ動物園】ユキヒョウイベント

Guest

いしかわ動物園, Oct 3, 2023
公益財団法人稲盛財団子ども科学博2023「生命のキセキ」企画監修

Consultant, Planner

公益財団法人稲盛財団, 子ども科学博「生命のキセキ」, Aug 4, 2023 - Aug 6, 2023
中央アジアと日本外交関係樹立30周年イベント～生息地の文化から考えるユキヒョウ保全～

Guest, Logistic support

札幌市円山動物、外務省, Oct 23, 2022
滋賀県立琵琶湖博物館第28回企画展示展示協力

Logistic support

滋賀県立琵琶湖博物館, 守りたい！少なくなった生き物たち－未来につなぐ地域の宝物, Oct 17, 2020 - Mar 7, 2021
世界でいちばん高いところに暮らすネコ：ユキヒョウ

Guest

京都市動物園, 夜の図書館カフェＤＥトーク, Feb, 2020
ユキヒョウの講演会

Guest

熊本市動植物園, 熊本市動植物園講演会, Mar, 2019
繁殖～命をつなぐ、生命の美しい連鎖～

Guest

西宮市立西宮高, 校松柏講座, Jan, 2019
近赤外分光法を用いた野生動物の排泄物中成分モニタリング

Guest

ブルカージャパン, 企業セミナー, Nov, 2018
ユキヒョウシンポジウム2018野生からの出張セミナー

Planner

Oct, 2018
スピカがつなぐ動物園と野生動物の「足あとプロジェクト」

Guest

大牟田市動物園, 大牟田市動物園講演会, Oct, 2018
動物の博士

Guest

トキドキドキドキアカデミー, 第一回講演会, Mar, 2018
動物を取りまく環境をホルモンからみる

Guest

京都大学霊長類学・ワイルドライフサイエンスリーディング大学院, 東京フォーラム2017フィールドとラボと社会をつなぐ野生動物研究, Oct, 2017
雪山・岩山の王者ユキヒョウ：世界で最も高いところに暮らす彼らの魅力にせまる

Guest

神戸市立王子動物園, 動物科学資料館30周年特別展「動物たちからのメッセージ」関連講演会, Sep, 2017
ホルモン分析‐できること・わかること‐

Guest

日本動物園水族館協会, 第34回コアラ計画推進会議, Jul, 2017

Major Media Coverage

映画ベルベット・クイーン－ユキヒョウを探して－（監修）

ArtSnow, Aug, 2022 Other
［サイエンスＨｕｍａｎ］自然繁殖できる飼育環境へ

読売新聞, 科学・IT, May 16, 2021 Newspaper, magazine
Snow Leopards: Ghosts in the Snow (Full Episode): Provided camera trap footage

BBC Earth, Apr, 2021 Internet
松任谷由実「深海の街 Album Message Movie～1920」生物監修

UNIVERSAL MUSIC JAPAN, Dec, 2020 Internet
NHK「グレートヒマラヤトレイル」動物監修

NHK, グレートヒマラヤトレイル, 2020 TV or radio program
ボーン・イン・チャイナ - パンダ・ユキヒョウ・キンシコウ -映画日本語ナレーション監修

ディズニーネイチャー, Dec, 2018 Other

Other

ユキヒョウ保全団体twinstrust運営

2013 - Present

https://www.yukihyo.jp/
まもろうPROJECT ユキヒョウ #2.インド編「人とユキヒョウの共存」

Oct, 2015 - Dec, 2015

クラウドファンディング https://camp-fire.jp/projects/view/644
まもろうPROJECT ユキヒョウ～赤外線カメラで絶滅危惧種ユキヒョウを守る～

May, 2013 - Jul, 2013

クラウドファンディング https://camp-fire.jp/projects/view/644