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In 1976, federal funding for Michael Bigg's killer whale research ended, and he was reassigned to other projects. It was not until the early 1990s after Bigg had died, that the Department of Fisheries & Oceans again began to provide funding for whale research on the west coast. [2] Still, Bigg continued his research on his own time for 14 years.
The orca (Orcinus orca), or killer whale, is a toothed whale and the largest member of the oceanic dolphin family. It is the only extant species in the genus Orcinus and is recognizable by its black-and-white patterned body. A cosmopolitan species, it is found in diverse marine environments, from Arctic to Antarctic regions to tropical seas.
Transient or Bigg's: The diets of these orcas consist almost exclusively of marine mammals. [ 6 ] [ 8 ] They live in the same areas as residents, but the two avoid each other. [ 15 ] [ 16 ] [ 17 ] Transients generally travel in small groups, usually of two to six animals, but sometimes on rare occasions pods merge into groups of 200.
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Newman then called Dr Michael Bigg, [4] head of Marine Mammal Research at the Pacific Biological Station in Nanaimo, B.C. Bigg, in turn, called Sealand and Bob Wright, who took Angus Mathews, Dr. Alan Hoey, and Bigg by float plane to Menzies Bay to investigate the claim. They discovered the story was true and that the baby killer whale was ...
Approving two proposed killer whale species could transform how they're conserved. It would also turn a new page in one of the strangest chapters in marine mammal history.
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Bigg’s pioneering photo-identification system actually originates from the regular encounter of a female whale with a distinctively torn dorsal fin. [1] The whale, named Stubbs, was re-sighted in 1973, which gave Bigg the idea of photographing the dorsal fin of each killer whale he and Ellis encountered. [2]