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Yaka, the 32-year-old killer whale who entertained millions at Marine World Africa USA, has died, apparently of pneumonia, park officials said. The 20-foot-long, 10,000-pound mammal had been ill for about three months before her death Wednesday, park officials said. ``It is exactly like losing a family member,'' said park spokesman Jeff Jouett. ``There is a period of shock and denial and grief and all the stages that you go through as you try to understand how life goes on without someone or, in this case, an animal.'' A necropsy performed Wednesday night and Thursday showed the preliminary cause of death was pneumonia, Jouett said.

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