Biologist Roger S. Payne died on the age of 88 on Saturday, 10 June at his South Woodstock, Vt, house.
His reason behind dying was metastatic squamous cell carcinoma.
Roger Payne made the ‘discovery that whales serenade each other’ which ‘prompted him to document their cacophonous repertoire of baying, booming, shrieking, squealing, mooing, and caterwauling, leading to each a success album and a rallying cry to ban industrial whaling.’
His analysis and launch of the whale music spurred some of the profitable world mammal conservation campaigns, inflicting a crackdown on industrial whaling. He additionally established applications on the Wildlife Conservation Society in addition to the analysis and advocacy organisation Ocean Alliance, stories the New York Instances.
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