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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] Walruses at the Tierpark Hagenbeck were easily able to suck the five-pound metal plug out of the bottom of their pool, at a water depth of 1.1 metres. [79]
Habitat: Neritic marine, oceanic marine, intertidal marine, and coastal marine [8] Diet: A wide variety of fish, cephalopods, and crustaceans, and sometimes African penguins and other seabirds [8] LC 1,060,000 [8] Galápagos fur seal. A. galapagoensis Heller, 1904: Galápagos Islands: Size: Male: 150–160 cm (59–63 in) long; 60–68 kg (132 ...
Odobenidae is a family of pinnipeds, of which the only extant species is the walrus (Odobenus rosmarus). In the past, however, the group was much more diverse, and includes more than a dozen fossil genera.
The Pacific walruses are back in their habitat and can be viewed by guests starting today. The zoo announced last week in a clip shared to Facebook that the walrus exhibit would reopen on July 1 ...
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The skins of fur seals and phocids are made into coats, and the tusks of walruses have been used as ivory. [167] There is a distinction made between the subsistence hunting of seals by indigenous peoples of the Arctic and commercial hunting: subsistence hunters depend on seal products for survival. [168]
An abandoned walrus calf was found on July 30th on a beach in Utqiagvik, a city in northern Alaska, the farthest-northern town in the United States. The Weather Channel shared a video of rescuers ...
Articles relating to Walruses (Odobenus rosmarus), with their uses and depictions in human culture. The species represents a large pinniped marine mammal with discontinuous distribution about the North Pole in the Arctic Ocean and subarctic seas of the Northern Hemisphere. It is the only extant species in the family Odobenidae and genus Odobenus.