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discovered that all male whales in a given ocean sing the same song. Further, the whale songs change subtly from year to year, and never went back to previous songs. Katharine Payne further discovered that the longer songs sung by the whales had structures analogous to
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1149:Chuck Berry
876:30 November
789:28 November
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348:included a
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125:Roger Payne
52:August 1970
42:Roger Payne
1319:Categories
1266:Nick Sagan
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1172:Ann Druyan
1167:John Cohen
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1046:Puspawarna
618:Studio 360
495:References
350:flexi disc
296:hydrophone
264:Background
138:chronology
129:Katy Payne
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319:Reception
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