Walrus are the animals that can be often seen in the areas of Alaskan Sea,
the Chuck chi Sea, Bristol Bay, the Bering Sea, the Atlantic and Pacific Sea,
the Arctic Sea, Rocky shores, ice floats and icecaps. They spend their day time
in open water or near the sea shores or resting on ice or rocks along with other
walruses.
The Walrus has skin which is thick and dark brown and wrinkled
and blubbered that keeps it warm while it swims in the arctic weather. Sometimes
the blubber skin on a walrus will be over a 6 inches deep that will keep them
safe from freezing to death. Male walrus may have big tusks which can lift up
to 4 kg and female walrus can lift things up to 2 kg. Male walrus can weight up
to 900 kg and female walrus can weigh up to 560 kg. The diet of the walrus includes
worms, snails, crabs, clams, seals, shellfish, and mussels and sometimes they
consume seals and small whales.
Walrus will have enemies like polar bears
and Killer Wales because they can chew through their hard skin. Though Polar Bear
have to work a bit harder to chew. Walrus has an excellent sense of smell and
jumps into the water if they sense humans nearby. Walrus babies are called calves
and they weigh from 85-150 lbs. Walrus also migrates up to a distance of 3000
km.
Walruses are hunted for their skins by hunters from Norway, Russia,
Great Britain, Greenland, Canada and the United States of America. Today there
are only about 250,000 walruses left in the wild and the possibility of extinction
is very real.
