American scientist Dr Julie Elie at the University of California, Berkeley won $100,000-prize Coller Dolittle Challenge for her work on how zebra finches communicate with each other.
Dr Julie Elie won the Coller Dolittle Challenge for Two-Way Interspecies Communication for discovering that zebra finches classify their calls according to meaning more so than acoustics.
Her work revealed how the birds announce who they are and what they are doing, and recognise one another regardless of what they are saying by using individual signatures. She also found that at times, the birds confused calls with similar meanings more than those that sounded the same.
About Coller Dolittle Challenge prize
The Coller Dolittle Challenge prize was launched in 2024 by UK based Jeremy Coller Foundation, which promotes awareness of animal welfare and animal sentience, in partnership with Tel Aviv University.
Beyond the annual prizes for progress, the foundation has established a $10m grand prize for cracking the problem of two-way human-animal communication.
Source: IE
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