Roger Payne
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Trained at Harvard and Cornell after completing secondary education at Horace Mann, Payne shifted from early research on bat echolocation and owl hearing to marine mammals, where his 1967 collaboration with Scott McVay revealed the intricate, seasonal songs of male humpback whales. The recordings, issued on the landmark LP Songs of the Humpback Whale, propelled the global anti-whaling campaign and…
Biography written by WatchMoods, based on public sources