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Meet the Other Outstanding Finalists
And the winner for the 2025 challenge is:
Laela Sayigh – USA
Awarded for:
First evidence for widespread sharing of stereotyped non-signature whistle types by wild dolphins
Prize: $100,000
Coller-Dolittle Prize Ceremony 15.5.25
Watch the official announcement of this year’s winner and finalists.
Can We Talk to the Animals? Scientists Decode Nightingale’s Complex Songs
Daniela Vallentin
and Jan Clemens
Germany
"Naming" Behavior in Marmoset Monkeys,
Offering Clues to Human Language Evolution
David Omer
Israel
Cuttlefish interaction “arm wave signs"
Sophie Cohen-Bodénès
and Peter Neri
France
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