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Tom Mustill
@tommustill
Writer & nature film maker
Jun 13, 2023 • 39 tweets • 18 min read
Roger Payne, legend of whale biology and marine conservation has died. The world has lost a force of nature.

I wrote a book with Roger in it, he took me under his wing and we became friends.

Here is a small part of the story of this wonderful human.

🧵 Image 2/ Born in 1935, his father worked at Bell labs “the Google of its time”. His mother a viola player filled their house with music. Exploring local woods & streams he “fell completely in love with wildlife and being outdoors”. They moved to NYC and he was crestfallen, hating it