Sentences with phrase «of walrus»

Some of the first - ever pictures of walrus were taken from this walrus cage that we made.

LaBudde continued to expose other forms of wildlife slaughter, including the illegal killing of walrus in Alaska for the ivory trade.

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.

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.

An animation of walrus radio tag positions relative to the shifting sea ice shows that around the end of July the walruses and ice went in different directions.

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

It paints an image of a situation in which a number of objects come together coincidentally due to the healthy appetite of a walrus in a zoo.

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...

Its a strange mixture of a walrus and Bill Murray's nasty comb over in Kingpin.

We have an english bulldog, who reminds us of a walrus with his rolls of fat and coloring.

There are at least two sub-species of walrus: the Pacific walrus (Odobenus rosmarus divergens), found in the Bering Strait region, off Alaska; and the Atlantic walrus (O. rosmarus rosmarus), found in eastern Canada and the high Arctic.

The Lewis Chessmen, an exquisite set of 12th century chess pieces worked out of walrus ivory and whales» teeth, are widely believed to have been crafted in the Trondheim / Nidaros area, and traded away.

Elite soldiers were buried with elaborately decorated double - edged swords, and a man who appeared to be the chieftain clasped a sword with a jeweled hilt and held a gaming piece made of walrus ivory in his mouth.

Greenland was a key source of walrus ivory, which was carved into luxury goods such as the famous 12th century Lewis chessmen from Scotland.

Meanwhile, new finds of walrus ivory show that this valuable commodity may have driven the rise and fall of the community.

Researchers were tracking the movement of the walrus and their behaviors in order to understand how the loss of sea ice affects their foraging patterns.

Now, a study of walruses and bats has shown that mothers and babies in these species also cuddle on the left — even when the baby is the one choosing the side.

An Otago - led team of scientists using techniques from the field of dentistry is shedding new light on the evolution of walruses, fur seals and sea lions.

In three of the last four summers, thousands of walruses have mysteriously come ashore in Alaska.

Together you'll go up against the Snowmads hordes of walruses, owls and penguins, and, in an industry increasingly dominated by more gritty settings, Donkey Kong's world miraculously beams with a kaleidoscopic vibrancy that rivals even November's Super Mario 3D World.

I have an article running in The Times describing the latest analysis of recent stampeding episodes of walruses crowded onshore in the absence of ice.

As you may know, world - wide the vast majority of walruses reside over the continental shelf waters between the U.S. and Russian Far East.

Here's some input from Tony Fischbach, a walrus specialist with the survey who just returned from Point Lay, where a huge group of walruses have hauled onto beaches:

Fay, F. H., and B. P. Kelly, 1980: Mass natural mortality of walruses (Odobenus rosmarus) at St. Lawrence Island, Bering Sea, autumn 1978.

But the latest freak incident — in which hundreds of walruses hauled out on a shoreline, before tumbling off a cliff in terror at the sight of approaching...

A family hunting bearded seals instead encounters hundreds of walruses, a rare sight so early in the year.

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.

I followed, ignoring a walrus and a carpenter who were selling oysters debt instruments their own firm had bailed out of.

There could also be a psychic were - walrus at the center of pluto.

Finally, over the course of weeks, I told him the truth: Honey, I can't promise that the walrus will never come again.

I could claim I was a walrus yesterday and you'd have to trust my claim just as much based on the evidence you've shown so far week after week of plastering this BS on these boards.

Maybe Michael was driving unfairly, maybe he just wanted to get rid of that hideous walrus - nosed Williams.

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

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White stands rigidly, and his thick, drooping «walrus» mustache was consistent with the style of the day.

In a newly published article in the international journal The Science of Nature the multidisciplinary team of researchers report their analysis of the internal structure of tooth enamel in a fossil walrus from California, Pelagiarctos thomasi, and in teeth of modern pinnipeds the New Zealand fur seal and sea lion.

Study co-author Dr Carolina Loch says this was the first time the enamel ultrastructure of fur seals and sea lions, as well as the extinct walrus Pelagiarctos, was studied using scanning electron microscopy.

Artist restoration of the head of Pelagiarctos thomasi, a fossil walrus from California.

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.

To learn about the everyday lives of these difficult creatures, Fischbach and his colleagues have been attaching satellite tags to walruses — a difficult operation in itself, requiring the biologists to land a helicopter downwind of the herd, then slowly wriggle forward on their bellies until they can fire a tag into an animal's thick skin.

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.

After all, plenty of young walruses die each year on the sea ice, and Pacific walruses have come ashore on Russian beaches in past decades during their fall migrations.

Says Chad Jay, the report's lead author: «We're really in a phase of trying to see how the walruses respond to reduced sea ice conditions.

Wolfe believes that the walrus faces a real risk of extinction.

«Our meat was seal and walrus, marine mammals that live in cold water and have lots of fat.

Now, a new analysis using the same sort of computer software that engineers employ to analyze bridges and aircraft parts suggests that Kolponomos may have collected its shelly prey in a unique way: They might have used their teeth and formidable neck muscles to clamp down on clams, mussels, and other mollusks and then wrench them directly off the rocks to which they were attached, the researchers report online today in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B. (Modern marine mammals that consume such prey either slurp them right out of the shell, as walruses do, or pry them from the rocks using their forelimbs and then eat them, as otters do.)

Pyenson et al. report that the site, Cerro Ballena, dates to the Late Miocene period and consists of over 40 skeletons of marine vertebrates, including rorqual and sperm whales, seals, predatory fishes, and fascinating, now completely extinct, species such as walrus - whales and aquatic sloths.

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.

Measurements of salt particles in ice cores suggest that storminess rose toward the end of the occupation, perhaps making voyages to hunt and trade walrus ivory even more dangerous.

Several walrus face bones have also turned up at the farm, suggesting that the inhabitants hunted in the communal Disko Bay expedition, says excavation leader Konrad Smiarowski of the City University of New York in New York City.