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Whales
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The sandy, almost barren island provided little sustenance, and, although the islanders were mostly Quakers, professing a pure doctrine of non-violence, they were quick studies, soon embracing killing of whales. To Melville, these Nantucketers were ‘Quakers with a vengeance’.
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― Whale
― Whale
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The rhythms of humpbacks are similar to those of human music. Their songs last longer than our ballads but are shorter than most symphonies. Do they have an attention span like our own? Do they use similar techniques, repeating refrains that form rhymes, to remember songs? Payne and colleagues suggest that this is so. Our evolutionary path has been separated from whales for 60 million years. Perhaps we are latecomers to music, not the inventors of song.
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― Whale
― Whale
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