🏃‍♂12 September 490 BC: Using a revolutionary new tactic called the phalanx, Greeks defeated Persians at Marathon, changing the course of Western Civilisation. #Pheidippedes runs 26 miles to Athens with news. Drops dead. 1st marathon race: https://antinousstars.blogspot.com/2023/09/run-like-pheidippides-just-dont-die.html Art: #RogerPayne 🪷

“By raising awareness of the intelligence and culture of whales, the album helped spawn a worldwide ”Save The Whales” movement, leading to the 1972 United Nations Conference on the Human Environment ten-year global moratorium on commercial whaling”. #RogerPayne

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Songs_of_the_Humpback_Whale_(album)

#rogerpayne #Whales #humpbackwhales
https://youtu.be/sjkxUA041nM

"The response was brutal. Leading whale researchers told him that his paper was pure fantasy. Colleagues hinted that critics had been questioning his mental health behind his back."

In the 1990s Payne was proven correct by Navy recordings.
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"Infrasounds can travel over incredibly long distances, especially in water. Knowing that fin whales also produce infrasound, Payne calculated, to his shock, that their calls could conceivably travel for 13,000 miles. No ocean is that wide. Together with oceanographer Douglas Webb, Payne published his calculations, speculating that the largest whales 'may be in tenuous acoustic contact throughout a relatively enormous volume of ocean.'"
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Roger Payne recently passed away. It's worth taking a moment to appreciate his scientific contribution, as well as how he mobilized people to save animals.

So a short obit from AP, and a few pages from the book "An Immense World" by Ed Yong.
https://apnews.com/article/whale-song-scientist-roger-payne-obituary-8f5e73d223619e10e564138ff0eeb09e
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RIP Roger Payne, the marine biologist who brought whale song to humanity, and served as science advisor to no-nonsense environmentalists Sea Shepherd.

#RogerPayne #whales #WhaleSong #SeaShepherd #ecology

https://seashepherd.org/2023/06/12/in-honor-of-doctor-roger-payne-longtime-member-of-the-sea-shepherd-board-of-directors-and-senior-science-advisor/

🪷 10 April #NationalSiblingsDay: #Romulus slays #Remus (illustration by #RogerPayne) because Reme defiantly jumped over Rom's symbolic boundary wall. Romulus said: "Sic deinde quicumque alius transiliet moenia mea" (So dies he who leaps over my wall.) #SiblingsDay #Siblings 🪷

🏃‍♂12 Sept 490 BC: Using a revolutionary new tactic called the phalanx, Greeks defeated Persians at Marathon, changing the course of Western Civilisation. #Pheidippedes runs 26 miles to Athens with news. Drops dead. 1st marathon race: https://antinousstars.blogspot.com/2022/09/run-like-pheidippides-just-dont-die.html #RogerPayne 🪷