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Description
Common Name: Walrus
Common Name Synonyms: Atlantic Walrus, Pacific Walrus, Walross, Laptev Walrus
Scientific Name: Odobenus rosmarus
Size: 90-150cm tall from flipper-bottom to shoulders, 250-500cm from snout to tail. Males are 25% larger than females
Classification: Caniform
Habitat: Oceans, Beaches,
Diet: Carnivorous; diet consisted of small seals, clams, oysters, crustaceans, sea cucumbers, mollusks, seabirds, narwhals, whale carrion
Description: It is easily recognize, by their flippers, whiskers, thick and bulky skinned bodies, and tusks, the walrus is native to the North Pole, the Arctic Ocean, and the subarctic seas of the Northern Hemisphere, where they lived in large herds, lied closer or sometimes piled on top of each other, like a bear-stack. In the Dutch, that the word walrus means "whale," which it is thought that its word origin comes from you know who whose the author of the series of Lord of the Rings, J.R.R Tolkein. In the Old Norse, walrus means "horse," and in other Dutch words, that wal is "shore," and rus is "giant," so walrus means "shore giant." As it is the Shore Giant, then the walrus is among the largest pinnipeds ever known, rivaled against the elephant and leopard seals. Not all walruses are tusked, some are complete tuskless. The tusks are the walrus's canines, which they are used for digging prey from seabed, and for making holes in the ice, to help the walrus gets out of the water to climb onto ice. The herds had been dominated by the strongest males with the biggest tusks for their territories, until they migrate. Their 2 non-human predators are both killer whales and polar bears, which they can kill some of the walruses for food. Most walruses are classified as vulnerable, due to global warming, and some humans can hunt the walruses for their skin, tusks(as ivory), and blubber. Because of its distinctive appearance, great bulk, and immediately recognizable whiskers and tusks, the walrus also appears in the popular cultures of peoples with little direct experience with the animal, particularly in English children's literature. Such children's literature, like Lewis Carrol's Alice in Wonderland, which featured The Walrus and the Carpenter, and one of Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book series, like The White Seal, which the walrus Sea-Vitch as he's old, big, ugly, bloated, pimpled, fat-necked one with tusks, who had no manners, except when that he has manners when he's sleeping.

Art (C) Shawn Brunner ,aka Patchi1995

Description
Common Name: Walrus
Common Name Synonyms: Atlantic Walrus, Pacific Walrus, Walross, Laptev Walrus
Scientific Name: Odobenus rosmarus
Size: 90-150cm tall from flipper-bottom to shoulders, 250-500cm from snout to tail. Males are 25% larger than females
Classification: Caniform
Habitat: Oceans, Beaches,
Diet: Carnivorous; diet consisted of small seals, clams, oysters, crustaceans, sea cucumbers, mollusks, seabirds, narwhals, whale carrion
Description: It is easily recognize, by their flippers, whiskers, thick and bulky skinned bodies, and tusks, the walrus is native to the North Pole, the Arctic Ocean, and the subarctic seas of the Northern Hemisphere, where they lived in large herds, lied closer or sometimes piled on top of each other, like a bear-stack. In the Dutch, that the word walrus means "whale," which it is thought that its word origin comes from you know who whose the author of the series of Lord of the Rings, J.R.R Tolkein. In the Old Norse, walrus means "horse," and in other Dutch words, that wal is "shore," and rus is "giant," so walrus means "shore giant." As it is the Shore Giant, then the walrus is among the largest pinnipeds ever known, rivaled against the elephant and leopard seals. Not all walruses are tusked, some are complete tuskless. The tusks are the walrus's canines, which they are used for digging prey from seabed, and for making holes in the ice, to help the walrus gets out of the water to climb onto ice. The herds had been dominated by the strongest males with the biggest tusks for their territories, until they migrate. Their 2 non-human predators are both killer whales and polar bears, which they can kill some of the walruses for food. Most walruses are classified as vulnerable, due to global warming, and some humans can hunt the walruses for their skin, tusks(as ivory), and blubber. Because of its distinctive appearance, great bulk, and immediately recognizable whiskers and tusks, the walrus also appears in the popular cultures of peoples with little direct experience with the animal, particularly in English children's literature. Such children's literature, like Lewis Carrol's Alice in Wonderland, which featured The Walrus and the Carpenter, and one of Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book series, like The White Seal, which the walrus Sea-Vitch as he's old, big, ugly, bloated, pimpled, fat-necked one with tusks, who had no manners, except when that he has manners when he's sleeping.

Art (C) Shawn Brunner ,aka Patchi1995