Joaquim Veà Baró
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| Native name | Joaquim Josep Veà i Baró |
| Born |
October 11, 1958 Barcelona |
| Died | February 23, 2016 (aged 57) Barcelona cancer |
| Resting place | Cementiri Municipal de Sant Sebastià, Sitges, Barcelona. Nínxol 587 41°14′11.7″N 1°49′03.2″E / 41.236583°N 1.817556°E |
| Other names | Ricard Baró, nickname as a photograph |
| Fields | Primatology |
| Alma mater | Universitat de Barcelona |
| Thesis | Modelos funcionales en la conducta animal: Simulación de un sistema motivacional (Spanish) (1986) |
| Doctoral advisor | Jaume Arnau i Gras |
| Influences | Jordi Sabater i Pi |
Joaquim Veà Baró (October 11, 1958 – February 23, 2016) was a Catalan primatologist.
He had been a student of Jordi Sabater Pi, was biopsychology professor at the University of Barcelona and director of the Primate Research Centre of the same university. His research in the jungles of Zaire and Veracruz focused on the relationship between the environment and behavior of non-human primates, and changes in their relationships due to human activity.
He died in Barcelona on February 23, 2016, two years after being diagnosed with Cancer.
Joaquim Veà, from the neighborhood of Sant Andreu de Palomar in Barcelona, was born on October the 11th, 1958. The Internet scholar Andreu Veà Baró is his brother. He completed his degree in Psychology at the University of Barcelona in 1983, and three years later, in 1986, his doctorate with a thesis on animal behavior, named "Functional models in animal behavior: simulation of a motivational system".
Even before completing his degree he published “IQ and individual differences” (1982), and from 1983 he started to become interested in issues of animal behavior, a subject on which he developed his doctoral thesis after publishing “Cognitive processes in animal behavior: an psycho-linguistic application” (1983) and “Symbolic behavior in the white rat: simulation of the learning of words” (1986), pieces of work which analysed the possibilities of extrapolating to humans the results of behavioral experiments on lower animals.
Veà was a close associate and protégée of the doctor and discoverer of the white gorilla Copito de Nieve, Jordi Sabater Pi, with whom he shared research work on bonobos and pygmy chimpanzees in the jungle of Zaire in 1988. Research he conducted within the period 1985-1996 focused on behavioral variability and the processes of adaption. On top of joint publications with Sabater Pi, various studies on primate behavior stand out from this period, including “Instrumental behavior of the chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes) in its natural habitat” (1988), and “Innovation and diffusion of behavior patterns in primate societies: the birth of culture” (1990). He also accompanied Sabater Pi in 1997 when he was president of the Spanish Association of Primatology, Veà acting as vice-president.
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