Walrus
Odobenus rosmarus
The Walrus, odobenus rosmarus, lives in both the Atlantic and Pacific regions. A walrus is generally a reddish brown color that can appear almost white after being submersed in cold water for long periods of time.
Walrus
Walrus: Odobenus rosmarus
Distribution: Arctic seas from Alaska, Canada and Greenland to the USSR.
Habitat: open water, near to shore or on ice floes.
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Description
Both males and females have two long tusks about 50cm long. The males have longer tusks. They have a beard of stiff bristles that grow to 30cm long. These are replaced every year.
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Related Category: Vertebrate Zoology
marine mammal, Odobenus rosmarus, found in Arctic seas.
WALRUS & MAN
Eskimos have hunted the walrus for hundreds of years. They use almost every part of the animal. Because they traditionally hunted using strong fishing lines, they did not catch enough walrus to reduce its population.
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Mammal. Walruses are the largest type of fin-footed mammals, called pinnipeds. Others are seals, sea lions, and fur seals. Pinnipeds have four flippers - one pair in front, and one pair in back.
WALRUS
Odobenus rosmarus
DESCRIPTION:
Walruses are large animals with a rounded head, short muzzle, short neck and small eyes. They are able to turn their hind flippers forward to aid in movement on land.
Walruses, Odobenus rosmarus (Linnaeus, 1758), are large marine mammals that weigh 400-1,700 kg. They are well-known for the large tusks, present in both males and females, that can grow to lengths of up to 1 m.
Walrus Related to the seal and found in the Arctic waters the walrus is a gregarious mammal . There is two species the Atlantic and the Pacific walrus . The males been the larger of the sexes reaches a length of 12 ft.
Walruses are members of the order Carnivora and suborder (or alternatively superfamily) Pinnipedia. They are the only members in the family Odobenidae.
Walrus (Odobenus rosmarus)
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The Walrus is from the order Carnivora. The Carnivora (or carnivores) are meat eating mammals.
Walrus
The Walrus is a large, noisy mammal that spends most of its life in the sea, but also enjoys sunbathing on the beach. It is a large pinniped (related to seals and sea lions) that lives on the edge of the Arctic ice sheet.
Walrus (Odobenus rosmarus)
The Walrus
This unique animal can weigh up to 1400 kgs and grow to be 3.5 metres in length. The male walrus is larger than the female. They are brown in color, but when wet they appear to be black.
Walruses use their iconic long tusks for a variety of reasons, each of which makes their lives in the Arctic a bit easier.
Walrus, Odobenus rosmarus
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Where are they found? Asia, Europe, Greenland, North America ...
The walrus is known for its large size and pink-reddish brown coloring.
It is also easily recognized by its large tusks.
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Frigid Food: Walruses feed on invertebrates such as crustaceans, starfish and mollusks, which they suck out of the shell. They also prey on fish and seals.
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Walruses are famous for their tusks and are the only pinnipeds (true seals, sea lions and fur seals) that have them.
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Walrus are found only in the northern hemisphere, in Arctic waters. Large herds travel along the edge of the pack ice with the seasons, although some older males do not migrate. They can cover distances as great as 3000 km.
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Walruses are very distinctive having a large, robust, fusiform body that is usually reddish-brown in color.
Walruses are large and heavy animals with cinnamon-brown skin, which turns lighter as they age. They are easily recognized by their large ivory tusks, which they use for protection, killing and eating.
The Walrus lives in the Arctic circle and spends much of its day in open water or near the shore resting on ice floes. If there is no ice it will find rocks on an island or on the shore along other walruses.
The Walrus is an ungainly creature and spends more time out of the water than other aquatic carnivores, sunbathing and resting on ice and beaches for long periods. Individuals can often be observed competing for the best basking spots.
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Order: Carnivora
Family: Odobenidae
Odobenus rosmarus - Pacific male (left) and female (right) on ice floe; Atlantic male (smaller, smoother skin) in water (far right); males fighting (upper left)
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One of the largest and most distinctive of all pinnipeds, the walrus (Odobenus rosmarus) is renowned for its enormous tusks, which can reach... More 48 Images 8 Videos ...
Walruses are extremely gregarious. Often they haul out on land or ice floes in herds of up to several thousand individuals lying in close physical contact.
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the walruses is relative near with the family of the ear-seals. The clumsy, massive walruses supply the second-biggest seals after the sea-elephant. T...
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Walruses are found only in the far north along the Greenland coast, Baffin Bay, and the Davis Strait. They primarily remain in drift ice and in coastal areas. Global warming may impact them severely.
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A walrus is a northern marine mammal with ivory tusks.
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Weasels are small, furry mammals with short legs.
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Walrus Evolution
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SEALS, WALRUSES, AND ALLIES
The Pinnipedia ("fin foot") includes the so-called aquatic carnivores.
Family Odobenidae: Walrus
Family Otariidae: sea lions
Superfamily Phocoidae
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Sea lions, walruses and seals are pinnipeds, which means "fin feet." Pinnipeds are adapted for hunting in the water.
Eighteenth-century zoologists occasionally observed walruses using their tusks as ice axes to haul themselves out onto ice floes, and named the family of walruses Odobenidae, a contraction of the Greek words odontos and baenos, ...
In the wild, these large bears hunt ringed seals, Arctic foxes, birds and baby walruses. They can easily kill a ringed seal with just one blow and can consume up to 200 lbs of food at one time.
Carnivora is the order of eutherian mammals that includes wolves, dogs, cats, raccoons, bears, weasels, hyaenas, seals, and walruses, to name just a few.
A manatee vaguely resembles a walrus without the tusks. Its skin is gray, wrinkled, and rubber-like. The gray color of the skin is often obscured by algal growth, barnacles or other incrustations on the skin.
In a village survey conducted in 2006, residents expressed widespread support for the creation of a protected area around a large walrus 'haul-out' - or resting place - where tens of thousands of walrus concentrate in the fall.
of the Prince William Sound (Cape Peirce and Walrus Is.) and Cordova. Formerly bred in the Kuril Is. and off the Kamchatka Peninsula, Siberia.
Disperses s. to the Kuril Is., Taiwan and St. Michael, Alaska.
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Young walrus are sometimes taken. During the summer months they feed upon the shoreline carrion, fish, mussels, crabs, starfish, lemmings and the eggs and nestling young of waterfowl and cliff-dwelling birds.
CARNIVORA: Odobenidae (Walruses)
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Riedman, M. The Pinnipeds: Seals, Sea Lions and Walruses. Berkeley and Los Angeles. University of California Press. 1990.
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b. Pinnipedia (Seals and Walruses). c. *Creodonta (Hyaenodon, &c.). 8. Cetacea (Whales and Dolphins) :- a. *Archaeoceti (Zeuglodon, &c.). b. Odontoceti (Spermwhales and Dolphins).
c. Mystacoceti (Whalebone Whales).
Wild: primary food is ringed seals (2nd is bearded seals), harp seals, hooded seals, & walrus & whale carcasses when available; in summer, also eat berries, crabs, plants, small rodents, seaweed, starfish, sea cucumbers, etc.
One factor may be the declining numbers and decreasing size of the chalky macoma (Macoma calcarea)—a deep water clam favored by this eider—due to increased predation by walruses and seals, and increased pollutants on the ocean bottom.
They are also known to prey on young walruses and occasionally even capture narwhals and belugas. In summer, if they are along the coast, they may eat some grass, kelp, or berries, and scavenge on the carcasses of terrestrial or marine mammals.
Almost exclusively feed on ringed seals and to a lesser extent bearded seals
Also eat walrus, beluga whale and bowhead whale carcasses, birds, vegetation and kelp
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Pinnipedia, Elephant Seals, Harbor Seals (Phocidae), Stellar Sea Lions(Eumetopais jubata) Otariidae, Walruses (Odobenus rosmarus) Otariidae, California Sea Lions (Zalophus californianus) Otariidae ...
Carnivores are a group of mammals that is divided into about 11 subgroups. Those subgroups include canids, cats, mongooses, hyenas and ardwolves, mustelids, walruses, sea lions, seals, raccoons and their relatives, bears, and civets.
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They are found in coastal waters of the northern Atlantic and Pacific Oceans as well as those of the Baltic and North Seas, making them the most wide-ranging of the pinnipeds (walruses, eared seals, and true seals).
In a few areas they are known to eat larger animals such as caribou and moose. They will also scavenge carrion when available, including whales, walruses, and seals that have washed up on shore.
It nearly eliminated not only the whales but also for a time, walruses. Whaling ended about 1910 because of market changes.
Red fox (Vulpes vulpes) carcasses were found in dens in Finland [90]. On the Alaskan coast, wolverines feed on whale (Cetacea), walrus (Odobenus rosmarus), and seal (Otariidae or Phocidae) carcasses that wash up on shore [91].
There are three existing families of pinnipeds: Odobenidae (walrus), Phocidae (earless seals), and Otariidae (eared seals). Rookery A breeding ground, especially of gregarious birds or mammals; also a colony of such birds or mammals ...
 See also: Manatee, Bear, Polar Bear, Otter, Shell
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