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posted by [personal profile] eftychia at 05:25am on 2005-11-21 under , ,

"I was fascinated to read about some researchers, who were studying the clicking sounds made by sperm whales - Moby-Dick. They couldn't figure out how the sounds fit together. So they called in an African drum master and he said: 'Oh, there's a kind of a guiding rhythm there, and they do seem to be listening to each other. I really hear a pattern.' He heard something the scientists didn't." -- David Rothenberg, author of Why Birds Sing: A Journey Into the Mystery of Bird Song, 2005-09-19 (original here if the link is still valid) -- thanks to [livejournal.com profile] nancylebov.

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posted by [identity profile] lpetrazickis.livejournal.com at 07:14pm on 2005-11-21
Correction: He heard something that the professional scientists didn't. I say hearing it makes him a scientist.:P

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