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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.
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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 ivory, also known as morse, [1] comes from two modified upper canines of a walrus. The tusks grow throughout life and may, in the Pacific walrus, attain a length of one metre. [ 2 ] Walrus teeth are commercially carved and traded; the average walrus tooth has a rounded, irregular peg shape and is approximately 5 cm in length.
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.
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Thor is the nickname of a vagrant Atlantic walrus (Odobenus rosmarus rosmarus) first seen in the Netherlands, in November 2022. [1] [2] [3] Thor is a male walrus probably about eight years old at the end of 2022, [4] and estimated to weigh around 0.75 tonnes. [3] Thor in Blyth Harbour