Sentences with phrase «like walruses»

Many mammals that swim in icy seas rely on blubber, like walruses, wales, and porpoises.

The story here is that a gang of Vikings called the Snowmads (comprised of arctic animals like walruses and penguins) have invaded Donkey Kong Island.

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

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.

[118] Female pinnipeds do appear to have some choice in mates, particularly in lek - breeding species like the walrus, but also in elephant seals where the males try to dominate all the females that they want to mate with.

He looked like a walrus he was so bloated.

Not exact matches

It all started when Australian Tumblr user Feminerds posted a photo on their feed of a friend who is a zookeeper taming her walruses just like Owen does.

Over the last 250 million years land animals have repeatedly begun exploiting the seas, giving rise to creatures like whales and walruses.

The enamel structure the researchers identified in Pelagiarctos meant the walrus was unlikely to be up to crunching through large bones without cracking its teeth — suggesting that it was a dietary generalist like the modern New Zealand pinnipeds studied, she says.

Wolfe's group is pressing the Interior Department to categorize the walrus as either «threatened» or «endangered,» a move that would give the federal government more oversight of commercial activity — like oil drilling — in the walrus's critical habitat.

The marine mammal may even have had short, walrus - like whiskers to better sense prey while grubbing through seafloor sediments, the researchers speculate.

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.

Meanwhile, the native Iñupiat congregate in community centers and homes, swapping stories over pots of boiling walrus meat and functioning like a living, breathing supercomputer.

Diminished sea ice can impact the ability of Arctic species like polar bears and walruses to find food, and could impact the weather across North America, Europe and Asia, though that connection is still contentious.

He punished Justin Long's selfish podcast - hosting protagonist from Tusk — a man who profited from other people's misfortunes and felt no shame about cheating on his girlfriend — by making him the prey of a psychotic old man who took his obsession with walruses to a Dr. Frankenstein - like extreme.

A lot of people don't like Kevin Smith's Tusk (I'm not one of them) but this minimalist poster foreshadowing Justin Long's character's transformation into a walrus.

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.

Livesey's aging Candy certainly looks like the bald - pated gent with the walrus mustache, and can be a splut - splut - spluttering old fart.

In fact, a whole parade of colorful performers passes by, including Billy Bob Thornton as a slim and steely silver fox of a prosecutor who battles Hank; Ken Howard as the no - nonsense walrus - like judge presiding over Papa Palmer's case; and Dax Shepard as an unseasoned rube litigator.

Like a psychedelic «Misery» or «The Elephant Man» with a happy ending, but in reverse, Howe traps Wallace with plans to fashion him into a walrus, approximating the only true friend he's ever had — a tusked creature that saved his life when he was young, seafaring military man.

There are walrus jokes, characters of questionable gender, a large Hawaiian who like to refer to Sandler as «peanut butter cups», Spam references, a man who can't remember things longer than 10 seconds, and Rob Schneider thrown in the mix to take the gags to lows — just in case the teenage boy crowd might zone out at watching the weepy, smoochy scenes.

If the Cube looks like a bulldog wearing sunglasses, the CrossCab might be a walrus wearing a toupee.

It's not like the Tacoma's passenger cabin features polished brass and walrus tusks.

Thankfully it sounds more like a dying badger than the walrus - moans of other CVTs — so I suppose I'll count that in my «win» column.

At the world's top zoos, you'll run into familiar characters like elephants, polar bears, and walruses, as well as meet lesser - known species like the Thailand clouded leopard and the armadillo - like pangolin from Asia and Africa.

Much like the first two SNES DKC titles, the score of Tropical Freeze manages to encompass a shocking amount of variety, all while building the atmosphere of the game's world, and turning the simple story of a bunch of apes fighting walruses into something truly epic and beautiful.

You even transform into a walrus and enter a sledding race, just like so many of my Christmases as a child.

«There's nothing else like it at the fair,» CANADA's Phil Grauer said in regards to the Polish artist Joanna Malinowska's trilogy of touching walrus sculptures at their Frieze booth.

[UPDATE, 5/20: Natalie Angier has written a nice column on the relatively unheralded walrus, which — like the far more charismatic polar bear — is having a hard time as Arctic sea ice retreats earlier and farther each spring and summer and forms later in the boreal fall.

This would not be enough to sustain the iconic Arctic species like seals, walruses and polar bears.

What was it like getting up close with walruses and polar bears?

it's like an old ed wood flick with fat ladies in a playpen and some old fart claiming to be the walrus.

Like ill - fated revelers at an overcrowded rock concert, thousands of Pacific walruses were stampeded to death in 2007 after disappearing sea ice forced them into close quarters on the shoreline above the Arctic Circle.