Sentences with phrase «walrus in»

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

The SIWO provides weekly reports from April through June with information on sea ice conditions relevant to walrus in the Northern Bering Sea and southern Chukchi Sea regions of Alaska.

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.

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).

As we learn of Howe's eerie, walrus - affected backstory, it's not long before it becomes clear that the creepy old sea dog is keen to turn Wallace into a walrus in order to bring him some companionship and let the good times roll.

Drilling and fuel shipping have also increased the chances of oil spills, which would affect the bowhead and other whales, seals, and walruses in the Bering Straight as well as the 12 million birds that nest and forage in the area every year.

The Melting Arctic Melting Ice Displaces Walruses In The Russian Arctic Ice Melt Causing Death of Polar Bears And there were the pictures of polar bears stranded on sheets of floating ice, accounts of their deaths «as a result of Global Warming» and even a documentary about the plight of the polar bears.

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

The last time a walrus had been spotted on the Scottish mainland was in...

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.

A U.S. Geological Survey walrus research team, including a Native Chukotkan, walk towards walrus across the northern Bering Sea ice at St. Lawrence Island, in the Bering Strait, in this 2006 photo.

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.

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 lioIn 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 lioin 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 lioin a fossil walrus from California, Pelagiarctos thomasi, and in teeth of modern pinnipeds the New Zealand fur seal and sea lioin teeth of modern pinnipeds the New Zealand fur seal and sea lion.

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.

Walruses don't usually gather in huge numbers, but in these strange new Alaskan «haul - outs» the animals clump together in the thousands.

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.

The tags have two simple sensors — one pressure gauge, and one saltwater detector — which together allow the researchers to determine how much time the walruses are spending in the water, and at what depths.

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.

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

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.

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.

«Walruses are fundamentally difficult to work with,» says Fischbach in a resigned voice.

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

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.»

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.)

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.

The high value that medieval Europe placed on walrus ivory would have provided plenty of incentive to pursue it in Greenland.

The find suggests that the early Icelandic Norse were «experienced in handling walrus ivory,» NABO members wrote in a 2015 paper; it follows that the Greenlanders were, too.

Written sources reported that the Norse routinely rowed up to 1500 kilometers to walrus migratory grounds near Disko Bay in western Greenland.

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 metabolism.

Trevorhi Taylor, a conservationist at the Canadian nonprofit group Oceans North, said the deal would protect Arctic fish and marine mammals, such as walrus and seals, on which many coastal communities in the North rely.

A new paper from WCS (Wildlife Conservation Society), in partnership with researchers and practitioners from National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, U.S. Coast Guard, Space Quest, Google, and SkyTruth, reviews the use of a maritime vessel communication and navigational safety system that is not only effective in protecting people, but wildlife such as whales, walruses, and other wildlife species as well.

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.

«Loss of sea ice has resulted in walrus hauling out on land in Alaska and Russia in massive numbers — these land haul outs result in trampling of their young,» Laidre said.

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.

Kellogg put this species in the genus Ontocetus, that was originally thought to be a tooth taxon; however, it is now known that in this genus, species have walrus tusks instead of a cetacean teeth.

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 changes are well - known, such as declines in polar bear populations and stresses to walruses being forced out of their shallow feeding grounds as ice retreats into deeper waters.

In 2009, Michael Woodley, then of Royal Holloway, University of London and colleagues estimated that up to 15 species of pinnipeds, the animal group that includes seals and walruses, might remain undiscovered (Historical Biology, vol 20, p 225).

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.

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.

At this time of year, west Greenland's walruses are lazing around on pack ice, basking in the early spring sunshine.

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.

Immediately recognizable by its long tusks and whiskers, the sea walrus is a hefty, flippered member of the Odobenidae family and is, in fact, the last living member of this group.

That helps keep them warm in frigid waters, because these marine mammals don't produce blubber — a thick layer of fat — as do seals and walruses.

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.

Walruses are fin - footed mammals with brilliant white tusks that help them keep breathing holes open in the sea ice, fight, and haul themselves out of the water.

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.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.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.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.in the year, consist of the natural foods of their environment (seal, whale, narwhal, walrus, etc.).