Sentences with phrase «because walruses»

The reason we wanted a woman is because walruses are a matriarchal society.

Because walrus avoid ice - covered waters where sea ice concentration is 80 % or greater, any heavy ice concentrations reduce the areal extent of walrus foraging habitat.

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That helps keep them warm in frigid waters, because these marine mammals don't produce blubber — a thick layer of fat — as do seals and walruses.

In the summer, no one is allowed to set foot on the shore because of the many breeding walruses, but in October only a few walrus are left, and they don't seem to mind when Ian plugs his toaster into a generator and proceeds to get the bread to the exactly right level of brownness.

Now we have poor hunting conditions in the Bering Strait touted as evidence that «walrus migration patterns have changed» with the implication that this is because ``... the past eight years have had the eight lowest amounts of summer sea ice on record» due to man - made global warming.

In Point Lay, another village in the North Slope Borough, walruses (also a food source for many) are dangerously stranded on an island because of the absence of sea ice.

Baby walruses and baby polar bears even drowning because there is not enough ice for them to find a resting place.