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Walruses Hauling Out to Alaska Shoreline

from Wildlife Promise

0 9/14/2010 // Larry Schweiger // , ,

By Larry J. Schweiger

Thousands of walruses, many of them mothers and calves, have left the shrinking and thinning Chukchi Sea ice for the Alaska shoreline. The packed beaches can lead to tramplings and deaths for the walruses.