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National Geographic, Rodger Payne, Ph.D.

Songs of the Humpback Whale

Taken from the sound sheet included as a page in the January 1979 issue of NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC.

“Roger Payne is the marine scientist who led the team that discovered that whales produce these songs. In 1970 he put out a record album called Songs of the Humpback Whale. It was one of the landmark events in changing the way humans perceive the animal world….Since the release of Songs of the Humpback Whale you have this great movement among people to disallow hunting whales, to preserve marine habitat for whales, and to think about whales and other marine mammals as fellow creatures that have some right to be here with us.”

—Radio Expeditions correspondent Alex Chadwick

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