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The top﹣selling album（唱片），Songs of the Humpback Whale，was made public in 1970. This collection of nature recordings changed the way many people thought about whales，and it helped save thousands of wha les.
The album might never have been made without a sound engineer named Frank Watlington. In the 1960s，Watlington was making underwater recordings when he noticed some strange，deep sounds. He realized they were coming from whales. Watlington played the recordings for a pair of scientists named Roger Payne and Katy Payne. When they listened，they fell in love with these beautiful voices at once.
Katy Payne studied music as well as animals，and she was greatly surprised by how the whales communicated using sounds like an opera singer. She also noticed another interesting fact：the sounds had clear patterns. According to scientists，an animal sound with a repeating pattern is called a song. Some scientists even compared these singing animals to musicians.
The Paynes thought that other people should also hear the beauty of the whales' songs. So Roger made the recordings into an album. The time when the album came out，whales were often caught，killed and traded for money. Some kinds were even in danger of dying out. Most people had never thought that whales could communicate through songs. But after hearing the album，they began to think differently.
The album led people to take action to save whales. Musicians began using whale songs in their music，and whales were included in movies and television shows. In 1982，a ban to stop deep﹣sea whaling was made. Before it，in the 1950s and 1960s，more than fifty thousand whales per year were killed. After it，the number went down below two thousand.
It might seem impossible that just one album could help save the lives of so many whales. But this album told people secrets about whales that had long been hidden under the sea. It allowed whales to finally share their songs with the human world.
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Home/Opinion/We Share Topic：How Can We Use a Modern Public Library？ Editor's （编辑的） note：Has it been a long time since your last visit to a public library？If so，you may be surprised to learn that libraries have changed for the better. Here are some ideas from the readers. | |
Ben | Topic：Check out a book There are lots of books in libraries，but you'll find it easier to borrow whatever you're looking for with a network of area libraries. By such networks，libraries share their books in a convenient way. Once the book you need arrives |
Anna | Topic：Check out other things The library is now a multimedia zone（多媒体区域） with different forms of information like﹣ movies on DVDs，music on CDs and popular magazines. Children can also find toys and games there. If a popular magazine you want isn't offered and the library keeps a list of such requests |
Tom | Topic：Join reading groups Libraries will often hold reading﹣group meetings for people of different aged groups. Perhaps you'd like to make more friends，and the library may have a book﹣sharing group you could join. Also，you might find it relaxing to sit quietly in a comer with a good book while you bring your little kid to a half﹣hour Story Time. |
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| Things to do on Sunset Island Sunset Island specials Port George restaurants are always popular with our visitors. The Victoria Restaurant on Green Street is famous for its Sunset Island cooking. |
Make friends with our wildlife At Rosetown Reserve you'll find wildlife that only lives on Sunset Island get close to wild horses, deer and parrots. | Our island story Port George Museum is open every day from 10: 00 to 16: 00 except Wednesday. Find out more about Sunset Island in the eighteenth century and the story of our people. | Sunset Island Tourist Ioformation Centre 25 Green Street, Port George, Sunset Island Open every day except(除了) Sunday 09:00—17:00 |
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