Polar bears are indeed the largest predators in the world. But even the biggest polar bear can hardly do anything against a full-grown walrus using its normal hunting strategy. Is that why the hunters use rocks and ice chunks? Three researchers investigated this...
Earlier than in the past years the walruses come to the beach of Point Lay due to the lack of sea ice in the Chukchi Sea. (Photo: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service) Pacific walruses started to gather earlier than usual on land, on a beach at the Chukchi Sea. The...
Walruses are dependent on sea ice for food. They use it as a platform to reach their feeding grounds. (Photo: Heiner Kubny) The rapidly melting sea ice in the Arctic is exceeding the worst predictions for the future. A new and improved model based on the last warm...
Atlantic walrus numbers are massively smaller than those of their larger Pacific relatives. This may be related to the extensive hunting of the animals since the Middle Ages, some scientists suggest. (Photo: Dr Michael Wenger) Iceland is not exactly associated with...