Bigg, Michael

BIGG, Michael, marine mammalogist (b 1939; d 18 Oct 1990). He was the pioneer of modern research into the life habits of the KILLER WHALE of the West Coast. A graduate of UBC, he went to work at the PACIFIC BIOLOGICAL STATION in NANAIMO, where early in his career he studied harbour SEALS and FUR SEALS and helped plan the relocation of SEA OTTERS to the BC Coast. In the early 1970s he turned his attention to the killer whale, developing a technique for identifying individual whales by the...

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