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Walrus Interesting Facts and Features
Walruses are incredibly well adapted to living in
some of the coldest regions in the world with thick
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skin that covers a thick layer of blubber (fat) that
Address helps to keep them warm. Their
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enormous tusks were originally thought to aid them
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with social status and even help with mobility.
Walruses dig their tusks into ice floes to help them
haul their enormous bodies out of the water but also
anchor their tusks into the ice so they are able to
sleep whilst their bodies remain submerged beneath
the waves. Walruses are also known to use their long
and powerful tusks like a pick-axe to carve their way
through the thick ice. Walruses feed in the darkness

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FACT of the ocean floor and are known to commonly dive
to depths of between 80m and 100m for nearly half

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an hour at a time. However, recent studies show that
depending on the availability of prey, Walruses have
been known to reach much deeper depths of up to
180 meters below the surface of the water.

Walrus Relationship with Humans

For thousands of years, local people have thought of
Walruses as being very similar to humans as they are
known to display qualities of intelligence, are slow to
reproduce and take long and very good care of their
more vulnerable young. Walruses have also been
hunted by people in their native countries for
thousands of years as a good source of food but in
more recent years they have also been increasingly
hunted for the ivory in their tusks, which is
considered to be second in both size and quality
only to those of elephants. Large scale hunting has
decimated Walrus populations, particularly in certain
areas but it is also increasing amounts of pollution

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FACT that is having a devastating effect on wild
populations.

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