Atlantic walrus


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Noun1.Atlantic walrus - a walrus of northern Atlantic and Arctic watersAtlantic walrus - a walrus of northern Atlantic and Arctic waters
Odobenus rosmarus
sea horse, seahorse, walrus - either of two large northern marine mammals having ivory tusks and tough hide over thick blubber
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The Atlantic walrus occurs in Canada, Greenland, Svalbard and Russia and numbers approximately 30000 animals.
University of Groningen: Extinction of Icelandic walrus coincides with Norse settlement
The sabre-toothed head of a male Atlantic walrus emerges briefly, before the giant, torpedo-shaped animal disappears with a splash.
On Thin Ice: Geographical's new travel section is designed to be the ultimate guide to the parts of the world you need to know about. This month we look at how Svalbard's fragile ecosystem is facing challenging times and how a new trend of environmentally-friendly tourism could be the answer to saving this pristine Arctic region from ruin
Atlantic walrus can also be hunted by non-residents, with four coastal communities organizing walrus hunts during the short summer.
Go north & prosper! East to west, Canada offers some of North America's finest big-game hunting
Population assessment of Atlantic walrus (Odobenus rosmarus rosmarus L.).
Walrus Movements in Smith Sound: A Canada-Greenland Shared Stock
LUKOIL has unveiled a report on the Atlantic walrus. The findings, collected during the expedition to the south-east area of the Barents Sea, were presented at the IX International Conference Marine Mammals of the Holarctic 2016, in Astrakhan today.
Russian Federation : Lukoil gives support to expedition to study atlantic walrus in the barent sea
The event, which dates back more than half a century to 1947 and is now held every three years, offers a free public exhibition of world-class antlers, horns, skulls and mounts ranging in species from the legendary Alaska brown bear to the Atlantic walrus and Stone's sheep.
Best of the Booners
The Atlantic walrus is one mammoth marine mammal (animal that nurses its young with milk): An average adult male weighs a hefty 3,500 pounds!
TAGGED TUSK
But I hope more will follow'; BELOW: an Atlantic walrus (Odobenus rosmarus) in the waters off Spitsbergen in the Svalbard archipelago in Norway.
Cold snaps
This remains the case with polar bear and Atlantic walrus, and there is currently no hope In sight.
Wood bison to be importable to U.S
79-133), which include natural population dynamics, food availability, predation by polar bears and other species (Arctic fox, Atlantic walrus, Greenland shark, killer whales), human harvesting, climate and climate changes, disease, and pollution.
SEALS OF GREENLAND
Atlantic walrus (Odobenus rosmarus rosmarus) in Canada are the subject of such stock status assessments (DFO, 2000).
Redefining walrus stocks in Canada
Other memorable kills include a 10-foot Alaskan brown bear, a nine-foot three-inch polar bear, a grueling hunt for Rocky Mountain bighorn in one of Montana's unlimited permit areas and the first sport-harvested Atlantic walrus taken in Canada by a non-Canadian--an animal that approached 4,000 pounds in weight.
The 'aught-six' in North America: the author's store-bought Remington chambered in .30-06 has done it all

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