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2 unusual facts about Paul Spong


Anti-whaling

Paul Spong, a New Zealand scientist who once studied the intelligence of orcas and friend of Canadian author Farley Mowat, helped convince then Greenpeace director, Robert Hunter, that the organization should confront Russian whalers in the Pacific.

Johnstone Strait

Scientists including Michael Bigg and Paul Spong have been researching the orcas in the Strait since 1970.



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