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***Melting Sea Ice Forces Walruses(Tens Of Thousands) Ashore in Alaska!!!***
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[quote:Anonymous Coward 1098422:MV8xMTg5NDIyXzE5MzAwOTMzXzI0Q0IzRUFE] [quote:Anonymous Coward 1097344] (AP) Tens of thousands of walruses have come ashore in northwest Alaska because the sea ice they normally rest on has melted. :blink: [/quote] Its called summer. :putin: [/quote]
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(AP) Tens of thousands of walruses have come ashore in northwest Alaska because the sea ice they normally rest on has melted.
U.S. government scientists say this massive move to shore by walruses is unusual in the United States. But it has happened at least twice before, in 2007 and 2009. In those years Arctic sea ice also was at or near record low levels.
The walruses "stretch out for one mile or more. This is just packed shoulder-to-shoulder," U.S. Geological Survey biologist Anthony Fischbach said in a telephone interview from Alaska. He estimated their number at tens of thousands. Scientists with two federal agencies are most concerned about the one-ton female walruses stampeding and crushing each other and their smaller calves near Point Lay, Alaska, on the Chukchi Sea. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is trying to change airplane flight patterns to avoid spooking the animals. Officials have also asked locals to be judicious about hunting, said agency spokesman Bruce Woods.
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