Katy Payne

Katy Payne
Payne in 2009
Born
Katharine Boynton

1937 (age 86–87)
Alma materCornell University
Spouse
(m. 1960; div. 1985)

Katharine Boynton "Katy" Payne (born 1937) is an American zoologist and researcher in the Bioacoustics Research Program at the Laboratory of Ornithology at Cornell University. Payne studied music and biology in college and after a decade doing research in the savanna elephant country in Kenya, Zimbabwe, and Namibia, she founded Cornell's Elephant Listening Project in 1999.[1]

  1. ^ "Katy Payne - In the Presence of Elephants and Whales". On Being with Krista Tippett. Retrieved September 3, 2015.