Video: Musician jams with whales
“MY GOD, it repeats!” Scott McVay was gazing at sonograms of whale sound spread across his living room floor. It was 1967, and researcher McVay and his wife were the first to realise that the humpback’s vocalisation is not random, but highly structured, built of smaller and larger segments that repeat again and again, like a song.
McVay and fellow researcher published the findings in a 1971 . A year earlier, they had released of the recordings. Entitled Songs…
