While they do sleep in water, they do so close to the surface to ensure they can easily come up quickly if needed. The walrus was almost rendered extinct by the 1800s due to hunting, as the animal had ...

Eventually the walrus moved enough to allow the crew to ... It’s very hard to sleep with thousands of giant creatures ‘chatting’ and banging against your hut - the walls were often shaking ...

One walrus calf is enough to sustain a polar bear for a month ... Alexei Ebel / WWF-Canon “We are waking a sleeping giant as a result of climate change. What happens in the Arctic doesn't stay in the ...

With tusks like an elephant and the body of an overgrown seal, the Pacific walrus is one blubbery beast. This ungainly animal, often gathered en masse on rocky beaches or seen riding ice floes, dives ...

But they have to hit you with their tusks to figure out what you are. And for a walrus to hit one of us can be lethal.” Indeed, their ivory tusks can be nearly two feet long. Hooked into ice ...

In The Last Walrus, filmmaker Nathalie Bibeau explores an impassioned debate about how — and whether — to hold marine mammals in human care. With trusted access to opposing perspectives ...