It Took A Musician’s Ear To Decode The Complex Song In Whale Calls

It Took A Musician’s Ear To Decode The Complex Song In Whale Calls

By Bill McQuay

Male humpback whales create ‘songs’ together, scientists say. Katy Payne was the first to hear the shifts in pitch and pattern in the collective calls as complex music — haunting, evolving tunes.

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