Singing Whales, Deep-Rumbling Elephants

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Education Society and co-sponsoring Women In Engineering and Aerospace and Electronic Systems Society

Singing Whales, Deep-Rumbling Elephants – What Do Their Calls Tell Us about Who They Are?

Dr. Katharine Payne

This lecture, illustrated with sound and video, will sample Katy Payne’s 30 years of research into the acoustic behavior of whales and elephants.

For reasons that remain incompletely understood, humpback whales continually, progressively, and communally change their long complex songs amongst many populations. Meanwhile on land, elephants use infrasound and audible sound to organize social behavior over relatively large distances. What do their uses of sound suggest about these animals’ minds, and why should we listen to these huge, intelligent, long-lived mammals?

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Doctor Katy Payne is affiliated with the Cornell Lab of Ornithology’s Bioacoustics Research Program, founder of the lab’s Elephant Listening Project, and author of Silent Thunder: in the Presence of Elephants. Although officially retired from Cornell she continues to ponder the mysteries of nature …

Dinner: 6:00 – 6:30PM

Lecture and Questions: 6:30 – 8:30PM

Meeting Location: Tufts University, Coolidge Room Ballou Hall

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