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The walrus sucks the meat out by sealing its powerful lips to the organism and withdrawing its piston-like tongue rapidly into its mouth, creating a vacuum. The walrus palate is uniquely vaulted, enabling effective suction; researchers measured pressures in the oral cavity as low as -87.9 kPa in air, and -118.8 kPa underwater. [78]
Walrus moustache: The walrus moustache is characterized by whiskers that are thick, bushy, and droop over the mouth. The style resembles the whiskers of a walrus, hence the name. [1] Zapata moustache A moustache where the two ends droop downwards towards the jawline, as worn by Mexican Revolutionary Emiliano Zapata.
The idea for the film came during the recording of "SModcast 259: The Walrus and The Carpenter". [6] In the episode, Smith with his longtime friend and producer Scott Mosier discussed an article featuring a Gumtree ad, where a homeowner was offering a living situation free of charge, if the lodger agrees to dress as a walrus. The discussion ...
Head of a Walrus (German: Kopf eines Walrosses) is a 1521 pen drawing painted in watercolour by the German artist Albrecht Dürer, now in the British Museum, London. [1] At the time the walrus ' main European population was around Scandinavia, and they were exotic to inland Europeans.
"Vulnerable": northern fur seal, hooded seal, and walrus. Pinnipeds face various threats. They are unintentionally caught in fishing nets by commercial fisheries and accidentally swallow fishing hooks. Gillnetting and Seine netting is a significant cause of mortality in seals and other marine mammals.
©mescioglu/iStock via Getty Images. There are around 1.5 billion cows in the world. They have been domesticated for over 10,000 years. Some can produce over seven gallons of milk per day.
An ethnic trait of Celts and Gauls, but strongly present in the Polish Sarmatian culture as well, the walrus moustache enjoyed immense popularity among men in the latter part of the 19th and early years of the 20th centuries. Gentlemen ranging from scientists to philosophers to politicians often favored the rugged look that the style created.
Set to the audio recording of famous radio broadcaster Paul Harvey's 1978 poem, "So God Made a Farmer," Ram made a photo essay with images of tractors, grain bins, fields, workers and more to ...