Sentences with phrase «walrus hunting»

But McGovern dismissed the walrus hunt as «a curious adjunct,» he recalls, echoing the scholarly consensus that farming was central.

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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.

He notes that the average Norse farmer had to balance the spring - and summertime demands of his own farm with annual communal walrus and migratory seal hunts.

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

At Bellsund, where the marooned Englishmen had originally come to hunt, they dined on 3 walruses, 11 polar bears, 19 reindeer, 50 foxes and 60 ivory gulls.

Walruses rely on ice to rest while hunting, Pfirman said.

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.

Its primary duty was to pull sleds laden with walrus meat from the hunting grounds back to the village.

«Loss of habitat directly impacts polar bears, seals and walruses, which use the ice for foraging, reproduction and resting, and for also for people who use ice for hunting, travel and other activities.»

Polar bears, which hunt for seals along the ice's edge, and walruses, which fish there, will both be hard - hit.

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.

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

I provided links to published accounts from past centuries and earlier BBC videos demonstrating that polar bears throughout the Chukchi Sea commonly hunt walrus on land; a fact that Attenborough distorted into a cinematic illusion misrepresenting a natural behavior as a function of catastrophic climate change.

There is a long list of observations of bears on land actively hunting walruses, reindeer and fish, foraging on berries or scavenging whale carcasses.