Sentences with phrase «human walrus»

Yes, the movie is weird and its commercial prospects may be challenging — even more so than a movie about a human walrus — but it's bound to sell on the strength of Smith's name alone.

Tusk has been one of the most talked about films of 2014 and has drawn in my curiosity since day one with the transformation of Justin Long (Zack and Miri Make A Porno, Jeepers Creepers) into a human walrus.

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

Laidre's team looked at what is known about marine mammal populations that play a key role in Arctic ecosystems and human communities, focusing on polar bears, beluga whales, narwhals, bowhead whales, walrus, and six different seal species.

Many human communities want answers about the current status and future of Arctic marine mammals, including scientists who dedicate their lives to study them and indigenous people whose traditional ways of subsistence are intertwined with the fate of species such as ice seals, narwhals, walruses and polar bears.

If humans did much of their evolving in this region, in a food - rich sea and its wetlands, it would explain why we have a long list of physical features in common with aquatic mammals, such as whales, dolphins, seals, and walruses.

Hardy pointed out that only aquatic mammals like walruses and hippopotamuses have naked skin and subcutaneous fat — human traits not shared by other apes.

Set to World Premiere tonight at the Midnight Madness portion of the Toronto International Film Festival is Kevin Smith's Human Centipede-esque Tusk, about a man (Justin Long) who is surgically turned into a walrus by a mysterious seafarer (Michael Parks), in theaters September 19.

At heart, Tusk is really little more than a jokey riff on The Human Centipede, its mad - scientist character obsessed with creating not a surgical conga line, but a kind of shrieking man - walrus.

If you're going to make an involving movie about a madman who surgically turns humans into walruses (yes, you read that right), you'd best whip up a sympathetic hero, credible puzzle pieces and propulsive tension to help sell such an off - putting, outlandish setup.

What Wallace doesn't count on is that Howe is obsessed with human - to - animal transformations involving walruses.

Although this allowed humans to enter North America, it relegated walrus populations to narrower shelf waters as far south as central California.

Similarly, a reduction in ice cover would reduce food supplies for seals and walruses and increase their vulnerability to natural predators and human hunters and poachers.

And we are really using that boldness as a bigger message, as a metaphor for us humans: that if walruses and bears can figure out a way to adapt and survive and carry on in this warming world, then why can't we do the same in our lives?