Myrabello is his name. He is a common marmoset at the DPZ and is expected to play an important role in combating congenital deafness in the future, as his genome has been modified so that he was born deaf. He was photographed by Nancy Rüger, who won the photo award in the science category with this picture.
Caesar, a male longtailed macaque, also lives at the DPZ. The animal care staff at the DPZ are constantly coming up with new ideas to make the animals' habitat as stimulating and varied as possible. Here the longtailed macaques have been given some old DPZ-aktuell issues to play with by their keeper Vicky May Schröder. She snapped this funny photo of Caesar, who is obviously looking at the magazine with interest. The photo entitled “Where is the Sudoku page?” was awarded first place in the originality category.
For twenty years, the Cognitive Ethology Unit has been studying the behavior and ecology of Guinea baboons at Simenti field station in Senegal. It is not always easy to distinguish the animals individually. For this reason, identification books are compiled in which the characteristic features of individual animals are recorded. Augustin Brouillet's expressive portrait of a young male Guinea baboon nibbling on a leaf won first prize in the aesthetics category.
The winning photos were selected from the ten best submissions in each category by vote of DPZ employees.
A video prize was awarded for the second time this year. The jury of the DPZ Sponsorship Society chose “A Journey to EBQB - Estación Biológica Quebrada Blanco” by Malgorzata Slowinska as the winning video. Accompanied by cheerful music, viewers travel down the Amazon to the former DPZ research station in Peru and get an impression of the rich fauna and flora of the lowland rainforest.
The prizes are endowed with 200 euros each.
Nancy Rüger alle Edits erfolgten in Gimp, durch Dimitri Lindenwald 
Vicky May Schröder 
Augustin Brouillet, Kognitive Ethologie 
Susanne Schumacher