“Repressed walruses plunges from the cliffs,”
“When the ice melts it gets crowded on the beaches for valrossarna, who are forced to take up on the rocks of the mountains.”
“New films from eastern Russia showing how walruses fall to their deaths when they try to take themselves down from the rocks.”
“– It is walruses going ashore when they don’t have somewhere to be out at sea, thus be on the ice. Then it will be very crowded on the beaches, so they go longer and longer in the back, ” says Tom Arnbom, havsexpert on the WWF, to SVT.”
“After all, the more walruses up on the country, the congestion and the stress larger for the animals.”
“– It is easy to it becomes panic and all out to sea at the same time, and then trample the dead kittens and older animals that are not capable of it. It’s like you have two tons of heavy cars that everyone will be out to sea at the same time, ” says Tom Arnbom to SVT.”
“Tom Arnbom says to SVT that similar problems have existed for walruses in over ten years and he has known them since 2007.”
“– It was then havsisarna melted in the Arctic, a huge amount, just that year. Then there appeared walruses in eastern Russia, at a place 40 000 and another 20 000 to 30 000, ” says Tom Arnbom to SVT.”
“Walruses live in and around the Arctic.”
“the Males can be up to 3.5 metres long. The females are smaller.”
“Valrossens grazing is up to a meter long.”
“Valrossarna collected preferably in the sun on the beach, where they often put themselves close to each other.”
“Source: Nationalencyklopedin”
