Entire arrays walruses. Bashny.Net

When in the northern latitudes whole array of walruses are not watching Arctic ice, they are moving to the coast, to the lack of ice to rest at least a pebble coastal lines.





Here is a brown spot on one of the coasts of the US Alaska Peninsula, formed by several thousand walruses who have decided to relax a bit. This happens quite often. And in view of global warming, the ice is missing more and more.





Most of the Pacific walrus winter in the Bering Sea. They are excellent swimmers, however, can not swim continuously. We need a pause. In addition, females give birth while on the ice. Because of the warming, the ice moved farther north.





Walruses use ice floes also as a launching pad to search for food by diving to the bottom with them. However, the north, the more depth and walruses just do not get to the bottom.



At the same time, placing the animals on the coast also fraught with life, especially the young. Any loud noise - and begins a crush. In a stampede killed hundreds of young walruses.