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Mention Dr Dolittle, and it is impossible not to hum the film’s Oscar-winning ditty written by Leslie Bricusse and sung by Rex Harrison: “Think what it would mean if I could talk to the animals, just imagine it/ Chatting to a chimp in chimpanzee/Imagine talking to a tiger, chatting to a cheetah/What a neat achievement that would be.”
The famed, fictional naturalist has now inspired a lucrative science prize aimed at cracking the challenge of interspecies communication. Last week, an inaugural $100,000 went to a US team studying dolphin whistles.
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