Tag: walruses

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Man there’s ALWAYS something new to learn about animals! Today I learned that the suction force of a walrus’s mouth can rip open a hole in plywood and it’s how some walruses kill seals when they’re hungry enough!!!

I mean, EVENTUALLY kill them, it probably doesn’t kill them immediately.

“I read several accounts reporting fowl to occasionally feature on walrus
menus. One, published in 2004, recorded thick-billed murres (Uria lomvia)
 being taken time and again by walruses off Coats Island in Hudson Bay,
 Canada. All they left behind were the bones and feathers, the
walruses’  pumping tongues creating enough of a vacuum to strip the
birds of their  softer body parts.

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This is the most viscerally horrifying bit of animal trivia I have ever read, and that includes everything I learned about Humboldt penguins.

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