Sentences with phrase «for walrus»

Its long shallow floor allows shellfish and other small prey to thrive, which in turn creates a smorgasbord for walrus, seals and gray whales.

Walrus depend on sea ice as a platform for giving birth, nursing, and resting between dives to the seafloor, where they feed.46 In recent years, when summer sea ice in the Chukchi Sea retreated over waters that were too deep for walrus to feed, 47,48 large numbers of walrus abandoned the ice and came ashore.

The heavy ice of the last Ice Age must have been the nadir for walrus populations.

Breer Lazidj Nahr 4 Awnings, 2012 Awnings (bed for an oyster), ground floor Awning (bed for a fox), 1st floor Awning (bed for a walrus), 2ond floor Awning (bed for a whale), roof top scaffolding mesh, steel Dimensions variable

Installation view; Spieltrieb: William Hunt and Breer Lazidj Nahr Breer Lazidj Nahr Awning (bed for a walrus), 2012 scaffolding mesh, steel Dimension variable

«Tusk is a modern - day monster movie that follows a journalist named Wallace (Long) who finds the story of a lifetime in Mr. Howe (Parks), a worldwide adventurer with amazing tales and a curious penchant for walruses.»

Tusk (Kevin Smith), USA World Premiere Wallace (Justin Long) is a podcaster on a mission who thinks he has found the story of a lifetime in Howard Howe (Michael Parks), an adventurer with amazing stories and a curious penchant for walruses.

There he meets Michael Parks, an eccentric millionaire with a fondness for walruses.

Official Synopsis: Wallace (Justin Long), a journalist on a mission finds the story of a lifetime in Mr. Howe (Michael Parks), a worldwide adventurer with amazing tales and a curious penchant for walruses.

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These organisms are vital food sources for fish and walruses, which in turn are vital to humans.

On a journey to Murmansk — a Soviet port that lies well north of the Arctic Circle — for a ski race, the author encounters racing reindeer, skating skiers, weatherproof walrus and mind - numbing Northern Lights

For example, ocean acidification may reduce the populations of clams and snails that the walruses feed on; here, too, Wolfe says that the threat is certain.

And the 76 Alaskan Inupiat terms for ice include nunagvaq, which refers to brown ice coated in walrus residue, and aluksraq, or «young ice punched by seals forming a seal blowhole.»

An open North - West Passage may be good news for bowheads, which will have more places to feed, but many Inuit will struggle, since they rely on walruses that are running out of sea ice on which to breed.

They returned with countless walrus snouts, whose ivory tusks they removed and prepared for trade with Europe.

For the manatee, walrus, dolphin, and killer whale, the return to the sea involved many evolutionary trade - offs amongst hundreds of genes: a general loss of the number of sensory genes for smell and taste, new functions for genes forming skin and connective tissue, and genes involved in muscle structure and metaboliFor the manatee, walrus, dolphin, and killer whale, the return to the sea involved many evolutionary trade - offs amongst hundreds of genes: a general loss of the number of sensory genes for smell and taste, new functions for genes forming skin and connective tissue, and genes involved in muscle structure and metabolifor smell and taste, new functions for genes forming skin and connective tissue, and genes involved in muscle structure and metabolifor genes forming skin and connective tissue, and genes involved in muscle structure and metabolism.

The effects would be far reaching: Polar bears and walruses would lose the ice they depend on for hunting and resting.

A longer food chain for top predators such as polar bears, belugas and walruses means they would be more highly exposed to mercury, since it magnifies each step up.

The microphones record data at a sample rate of 8kHz, so the group listens up to 4kHz — for scale, the highest note on a normally tuned, standard piano is 4.186 kHz — to include signals produced by large whales like fins, humpbacks, bowheads and killer whales, as well as pinnipeds such as bearded seals and walrus.

But over the past decades, the melt season has grown longer and the average extent of Arctic sea ice has diminished, changing the game for many Arctic marine mammals — namely beluga, narwhal and bowhead whales; ringed, bearded, spotted, ribbon, harp and hooded seals; walruses; and polar bears.

What makes a horse different from a tiger, a mouse and a walrus is the set of regulatory switches in the DNA that dictate where, when and for how long those genes are active.

Some species win, others don't Meanwhile, the loss of sea ice is making life harder for some marine animals, including polar bears and walruses, that rely on sea ice to hunt, breed and rear their young.

It's worse for the Inuit people, polar bears, walruses, and a host of less charismatic residents of the far north.

However, the arrivals of new species are mirrored by the challenges for existing ones adapting to new conditions such as walrus and polar bear.

Locally, declining sea ice is affecting the feeding and migration patterns of polar bears, whales, walrus and seals, and the people who live in the Arctic and rely on seasonal ice for their livelihoods.

In order to determine the efects, if any, of the dietary habits of these natives, the data, as stated, were divided into two groups, namely, (a) those obtained in Hudson Bay and Strait amongst natives who live, to an appreciable extent, upon mixed diets, and (b) those obtained in Baffin and Devon Islands amongst natives whose diets, except for about 2 months in the year, consist of the natural foods of their environment (seal, whale, narwhal, walrus, etc.).

Wallace happens across an advert placed by Mr. Howe, an advert which offers somebody the chance to live with him in his expansive house, rent - free, and all the new tenant needs to do is act like a walrus for a set period of time each day.

At the Saturday night world premiere of his new movie, the writer - director crossed the stage of the Ryerson Theatre in signature jersey and shorts, playing to his constituency — many wearing plastic walrus masks, for reasons I'll get to shortly — liked an old pro.

As a brief bit of history (as it is sort of needed to explain the story), Smith came up with the idea for Tusk on an episode of his podcast show with former producing partner Scott Mosier after seeing a news story about an old man who is offering a room to rent free of charge so long as the occupant pretends to be a walrus once a month.

As for the film's seeming raison d'etre, the walrus - ization of Wallace (walrus, Wallace — get it?)

As Howard begins doing unspeakable things to Wallace, all the while telling him about how a walrus in the Black Sea was the only creature ever to show him any kindness, Teddy and Ally begin the search for their friend, which brings them into contact with Quebecois private investigator Guy LaPointe (played by a big - time, pseudonymous movie star who is close to unrecognizable here thanks to a fake nose and a ludicrous French - Canadian accent).

Finally Smith gave us the first trailer for Tusk, which he elaborately explained came from an idea developed during one of his podcasts, called Smodcast, where he discussed an ad someone in real - life posted about wanting someone to come stay with them and agree to dress in a walrus suit.

So while waiting on the money for «Clerks III» which I wanted to take to Sundance as it will be the 20th anniversary of the first «Clerks» films things were looking less and less likely so I wrote this stupid walrus movie.

Now, «Tusk» — a movie about a guy who turns another guy into a walrus — and «Yoga Hosers» — about two girls in Canada who fight one - foot - tall Nazis — I could find money for that.

Lewis Carroll's poem tells the tale of a walrus and a carpenter who invite a group of oysters to join them for a walk on a sunny...

I said that when I was her age, I had dressed up as a walrus for Halloween and collected money for Guy Fawkes.

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Available in seven character designs — including a moose, walrus and beaver — products in the line also feature the company's cylindrical Blaster squeakers, which are larger than the average round squeaker, thus providing a longer, more engaging noise for canines.

With the world's largest population of Pacific walruses and the highest density of ancestral polar bear dens, Wrangel Island offers incredible opportunities for wildlife viewing.

Spitsbergen, Greenland, Iceland, Norway and the North Pole are perfect for explorations by small ship cruise, and our selected itineraries get you up close to the abundant wildlife in this region: polar bears, musk ox, walrus, belugas, narwhal, killer whales, seabirds and more.

A nature lover's paradise, the Falklands show signs of life everywhere you look: from crags dotted with seabirds, to beaches swarming with penguins (the Falklands are home to five different species), to vast watery depths where whales, walruses and seals compete for space off - shore.

Family Odobenidae: walruses are distinctive for their two long tusks.

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For the real story on polar bear populations, see Federal studies show polar bear, walrus populations in trouble.

I first encountered the wildlife filmmaker Adam Ravetch in 2007 when writing about «Arctic Tale,» a film on polar bears and walruses that he co-directed for National Geographic in 2007 and which meshed fictional storytelling and astonishing imagery.

Not sure which episode, but the bear swims for days, can only find an island of walrus (es?)

The Center for Biological Diversity, which filed the petition that resulted in the agency decision, calls the «warranted but precluded» species status given to the walrus and many other species a «black hole.»

Its coasts provide refuge for Pacific walruses and ice seals and designated critical habitat for threatened polar bears.

Shaye Wolf, climate science director for the Center for Biological Diversity, the conservation group that launched legal action to get Pacific walruses listed in 2008, told Earther that the agency's claim that walruses will adapt to climate change «is baseless, and simply doesn't match the science showing that walruses are being harmed by the devastating loss of their sea ice habitat.»

The plan is a huge step for conservation of the Western Arctic, an area increasingly stressed by climate change, and provides critical protections for key lands in the Reserve and the wildlife dependent on it, including migratory birds from around the world, caribou, bears, wolves, beluga whales, and walrus.