Rate My Professor Stephanie King

King is Principal Investigator of the Shark Bay Dolphin Research project alongside Professors Richard Connor, Michael Krützen, and Dr Simon Allen. Her research employs hydrophone arrays, overhead video, and sound playback experiments to investigate communication in male alliance formation and maintenance, identity signalling, polyadic cooperation, and decision-making strategies. She has received the Zoological Society of London Scientific Medal in 2023 for distinguished work in zoology and a Branco Weiss Fellowship from 2015 to 2020. She secured a European Research Council grant of 1.44 million for her project 'The Social Origins of Rhythm'. Key publications include 'Allied male dolphins use synchronous displays to strengthen social bonds in a cooperative context' (Movement Ecology, 2025), 'What can we learn from bonobos and bottlenose dolphins about the evolution of between-group cooperation?' (Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 2026), and 'Ontogenetic evidence of socially learned call sequences in Western Australian magpies' (Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 2026). Her work, published in journals such as PNAS, Current Biology, and Nature Communications, advances cetacean biology through state-of-the-art technology and wild playback experiments, contributing to understanding social cognition in dolphins. With over 2500 citations, her research has been featured on the BBC and influences studies on animal cooperation and communication.