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Ken Balcomb, a researcher who spent five decades studying the Pacific Northwest’s charismatic and endangered killer whales — and whose findings helped end their capture for display at marine parks in the 1970s — died Thursday following an illness. He was 82.
Ken Balcomb, a researcher who spent five decades studying the Pacific Northwest's charismatic and endangered killer whales died Thursday. He was 82.
Ken Balcomb, an orca researcher who championed the endangered species for nearly five decades, dies at 82 years old from prostate cancer in Washington.
SEATTLE (AP) — Ken Balcomb, a researcher who spent five decades studying the Pacific Northwest's charismatic and endangered killer whales — and whose findings helped end their capture for display at marine parks in the 1970s — died Thursday following an illness.