How To Use Walrus In A Sentence
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It is the Elephant and Walrus Kingdoms that greet you today.
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While you can get pretty close to walruses here, within 30 feet in some cases, you're not allowed to be on the beaches, so conversations are kept to a minimum and there's a rush to get up.
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Killer whales - known as the wolves of the sea - are top Arctic predators, eating prey that includes fatty animals like walruses, seals, sea lions, and even other whales.
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A chicken nibbled on smashed watermelon, and dancers swam in a plastic water flume, and a fake walrus lumbered across the stage.
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He was lucky enough to find one of the walrus ' tusks whole and undamaged.
THE BROKEN GOD
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'World Heritage Sites' (Firefly Books, 2011) takes readers on a tour of the planet's highlights, from the famous (Egypt's pyramids) to the more far-flung (the Wrangel Island reserve in the Arctic, home to many walruses and ancestral polar-bear dens).
An Armchair Tour of World Wonders
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The book features lots of colour photos and mostly Inuit writers' tips on everything from dogsledding and walrus watching to luxury cruises and the dangers of ice floes.
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Leif gave her a gold finger-ring, a Greenland wadmal mantle, and a belt of walrus-tusk.
The Northmen, Columbus and Cabot, 985-1503
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Walrus ivory is derived from the male animal and usually has a much smaller cross-section.
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His colleagues have been debating whether the carcass belongs to a bearded seal, a walrus or a beluga whale.
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With a ‘harumpf’ or two, the judge fingered his walrus type moustache and started to explain.
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We were relieved not to have had to use our borrowed anti-polar bear rifle, but disappointed not to see any bears, walruses, narwhal or beluga.
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Koogah dropped his walrus tusk and went also, leaning heavily upon his staff, and after him loitered the men in twos and threes.
Nam-Bok, the Unveracious
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It was at one time the main commercial port for lynx and sable furs, beeswax, timber, grain, hunting falcons, and walrus ivory.
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Sir Thomas Browne in his "Pseudo-doxia Epidemica" [162: 2] remarked that many specimens of alleged unicorn's horn, preserved in England, were in fact portions of teeth of the Arctic walrus, known as the morse or sea-horse.
Primitive Psycho-Therapy and Quackery
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A very hungry bear will sometimes attack a walrus in the water, for the polar bear is a powerful swimmer; but in his peculiar element -- and he is never far from it -- the walrus is the best fighter, and his tough hide serves as an almost impenetrable armor.
Harper's Young People, January 20, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly
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The walrus, which is hunted by the Eskimo in kyak and from ice flow, is also sought after by the Hudson's Bay Company, and is hunted by the Company's employees in small vessels sailing out of Churchill.
Navigation of Hudson's Bay and Straits
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On this island he came across the naked white bones of a walrus washed up on the rocky beach.
THE BROKEN GOD
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The bidarka is a frail, narrow framework over which is stretched walrus skin, and it is so fashioned that the crew sits, one behind the other, in circular openings with legs straight out in front.
The Silver Horde
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The early Celts are fun to draw, with blue woad tattoos, punk-like spiky hair and walrus-like moustaches.
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Walrus were quite commonly encountered in the Shetland Isles and the Scandinavian coasts until quite recently.
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On the very day of sailing they caught their first glimpse of some large species of seal or walrus, which is thus described by the old narrator of the expedition: --
Tales of the Enchanted Islands of the Atlantic
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Add to these a little love and counterplotting, and scatter everywhere throughout the maze a trail of tropical dollars -- dollars warmed no more by the torrid sun than by the hot palms of the scouts of Fortune -- and, after all, here seems to be Life, itself, with talk enough to weary the most garrulous of Walruses.
Cabbages and Kings
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The blue whale, the beluga and the walrus all have this protective layer of fat which serves as insulation.
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The team will also test walruses, sea otters, and clams in Alaska's Aleutian Islands for traces of PCBs, pesticides, and petroleum.
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I removed my cap to reveal a slipping hairstyle (going, going, almost gone) and did a pirouette, graceful as a walrus in ballerina tights.
Million Americans in Mexico? Just guessing
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Sculpture and carving on bone and walrus tusk are the most highly developed forms of folk art among the Chukchi.
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These minute creatures are eaten by larger fish, and those by still larger fish, which in turn become lunch for polar bears, seals, walruses, and whales.
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Who is AC going to fight anyway? over zealous walrus smackers? evil penguin capers? over active krill give me a gorram break.
EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - Aquaman pilot swims to WB Network
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Aquatic mammals that live in the waters off the coast include walrus, ringed seals, bearded seals, beluga, narwhal, and various other whales.
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One of the most famous archaeological finds in Scotland are the Lewis Chessmen, made from walrus ivory and dating from the 12 th century.
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The people dine on chamois and boar, aurochs and mutton, bison and walrus.
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Some of the species found here include the walrus, polar bear, beluga, narwhal, bearded seals, harp seal, harbour seal, ringed seal, bowhead whale, ivory gull, and some migratory birds.
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I hear the great whites like seals, or anything that resembles a penguin or walrus.
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I waddled jovially around the apartment in my Santa suit, laughing through the beard's tiny mouth hole like a walrus blowing through its moustache.
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A nice piece of blubber from a walrus or some reindeer tallow," said Menie.
The Eskimo Twins
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Somewhere up above, either a basso profundo or a talking walrus was making the welkin ring.
SOMETHING IN THE WATER
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We practically trip into a couple of graves which are the remains of various settlements of Russian Pomors, the hardy (mad?) walrus hunters who lived, rapaciously hunted - and often died - here in the 18th century.
Beth Kapusta: ...somewhere just south of the 79th parallel
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Occasionally they even pluck a walrus, beluga whale, or narwhal from the watery depths below the pack ice.
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Elephant is related to Walrus and Manatee as an aquatic counterpart to our species.
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I saw walruses and heard their grunts as they lumbered slowly off their ice floes.
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Bearded seals and walrus, feed in relatively shallow waters and rely on benthic prey associated with continental shelf areas and rely on annual sea ice for pupping.
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A tall, bespectacled figure, his face half concealed by a luxuriant walrus moustache, Perky had enjoyed an extraordinary career.
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Some of the well-known sledgers of the earlier years had large walrus moustaches, which made movement of their lips imperceptible.
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Cooper's team believes warmer water flowing north from the Bering Sea is largely responsible for melting the Arctic ice on which the walruses live.
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I waddled jovially around the apartment in my Santa suit, laughing through the beard's tiny mouth hole like a walrus blowing through its moustache.
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I keep getting subscription invitations from Walrus magazine, and got one from Geist too, but I haven't bitten yet.
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One of the chief characteristics of the walrus is the presence of two elongated tusks (the canine teeth) in the upper jaw.
Heads and Tales : or, Anecdotes and Stories of Quadrupeds and Other Beasts, Chiefly Connected with Incidents in the Histories of More or Less Distinguished Men.
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He [an old bull-walrus] heard us, and lazily awakening, raised his head and prepared to absquatulate.
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Carnivora is the order of eutherian mammals that includes wolves - like this arctic wolf - dogs, cats, raccoons, bears, weasels, hyaenas, seals, and walruses, to name just a few.
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Rather than being carved in elephant ivory, they have been made from a walrus tusk, a material commonly used in northern Europe for such objects at this time.
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Brian has concentrated on the ecological diversity of the region, with its rare flowers, walruses, Bowhead whales, bearded seals, Polar bears and sea birds.
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One animal of this kind, called the dinotherium, is supposed to have been not less than eighteen feet long; it had a mole-like form of the shoulder-blade, conferring the power of digging for food, and a couple of tusks turning down from the lower jaw, by which it could have attached itself, like the walrus, to a shore or bank, while its body floated in the water.
Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation
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Polar bears, walruses, seals, whales and ocean-going birds like eider ducks and loons call the Arctic Ocean home.
Bush-era Policies
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The Inuit rely heavily on subsistence hunting of walruses, whales, seals, and other animals near the top of the food chain.
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We had seen whales, narwhals, polar bear, seals, walrus, musk ox, and countless other natural wonders.
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Two huge English gals with shoulders like walruses breasted the waves in perfect unison.
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The Walrus interrupted me at every possible opportunity, didn't listen to anything I said, sponged a coffee from me and sat there with his vast belly showing through an undone button in his shirt.
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Pagophila eburnean), Pacific walrus (Odobenus rosmarus divergens), ringed seal, hooded seal (Cystophora cristata), narwhal (
Green Options
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This description ends with the words, “… and walruses wif teef nike niff.”
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The walrus is also troubled with lice, which is not the case, so far as I know, with any kind of seal.
The Voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe, Volume I and Volume II
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Here they would assemble with their great walrus - skin boats, or oomiaks, to make ready for their annual trading cruise to Siberia.
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I know that on the eastern coast of Africa is found a smaller species of walrus called the dugong: it has long incisor teeth, but not tusks; and certainly resembles a seal rather than a walrus.’
Swiss Family Robinson
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Conservation groups predict that if walruses are repeatedly forced to shore, they will overhunt areas within short swimming distances and their population will crash.
Anchorage Daily News - Alaska News
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I've said before that my metabolism wavers sinuously between stallion and walrus, and I've been getting noticeably blubbery in recent months.
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They are a big as walrus tusks, and I've considered pulling them and crafting some ivory jewelry.
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Walruses were commonly encountered in the Shetland Islands until quite recently.
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The great man of course frowned and pulled his "walrus" -- the kind that has hanging, hairy selvages on it, such as serve as warnings for "low bridge" on the railroads -- smote his desk firmly, and said it would never do!
A Fantasy of Mediterranean Travel
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The young lady workin 'says that the walrus is the most socially inappropriate animal they have there.
Knowledge is Power
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So, if any one wants to fight, "-- he looked at Raventik here, but that fire-eater happened to be absent-minded at the moment, and sat with downcast eyes, --" _to fight_, "he repeated with emphasis," he will have to remain at home and fight the walrus -- or the women!
The Walrus Hunters A Romance of the Realms of Ice
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A land that is home to walruses, seals, foxes, wolves, oxen, polar bears, and where six million birds fly in for summer, can hardly be called forbidden.
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In fact, only a handful of the 5,000 or so mammals - mostly semi-aquatic species such as whales, walruses, and hippopotamuses - are not covered in dense fur.
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There are also caribou, wolves, walruses, polar bears and beluga whales.
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Occasionally they even pluck a walrus, beluga whale, or narwhal from the watery depths below the pack ice.
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The huge walrus made another grunt and then wobbled itself away from us and across the few feet of exposed rocks and slipped into the water.
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The middle occupation yielded cod, beaver and sturgeon; as well, smaller amounts of deer, moose, seals, walrus, waterfowl, small furbearers, and swordfish were also identified.
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Strictly speaking, the term should be applied only to the tusks of elephants, although a wider definition includes the teeth of the hippo, narwhal whale and the walrus.
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Next we visit a colony of sabre-toothed monsters that used to attack ships. At least those were the tales spun by early mariners who first sighted walrus.
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It is unlikely that he would have had room for boxwood from South America, even as ballast, but he might well have bought walrus ivory to sell to rulemakers.
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Back then they were taking ivory from elephants and walruses.
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I dial a hair to the right and hear a guttural voice—distant and echoey—butchering “I Am the Walrus.”
Soul Trapper
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The jaw of the walrus is the least regular, and the incisors are generally wanting, especially in the full-grown animal; for it appears they lose them very young, as you lost your milk teeth, only, unluckily for the walrus, his never grow again.
The History of a Mouthful of Bread And its effect on the organization of men and animals
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When Qallunaat introduced guns to Inuit, we only used them for the purpose of hunting wild game such as caribou, polar bears, seals, walruses, beluga and narwhal and everything that is edible.
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With huge 200,000-strong colonies of little auk thronging the cliffs and shores, kittiwakes next to the cobalt blue glaciers, walrus wallowing in the shallows, Arctic foxes, whales and, of course, one of the ultimate wildlife sightings, the mighty polar bear, frequently seen hunting in its frosty backyard on ice floes.
Paul Steele: Photographic Dreams Of The Wild Do Come True
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Polar bears, seals, sea lions, walruses, whales and millions of seabirds call the Bering Sea home.
News
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The theme, obviously, is marine animals, and the inclusions range from humpback whales to tuna fish, from great white sharks to bottlenose dolphins, and from mermaids to walruses.
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When seen close at hand the walrus is a very ugly monster.
Fast in the Ice Adventures in the Polar Regions
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He is the queer old duck with the knee - length gaiters and walrus mustache.
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Mr Watkins , smoothing his walrus moustache, stood near a candle reading a month - old newspaper.
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Here in one of the world's richest marine environments - the waters between Alaska and Russia - polar bears, walruses, whales, seals, and countless birds thrive.
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There are also caribou, wolves, walruses, polar bears and beluga whales.
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Scrimshaw is the decoration of bone or ivory objects, such as whale teeth and walrus tusks, with fanciful designs.
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A walrus-moustached council official presides over the ceremony in Slovenian, continually drifting off-piste, gesturing and chuckling good-naturedly.
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A habitat for walruses is situated on a rocky spit at the edge of the village.
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Come face to face with polar bears, walruses, harbour seals and beluga whales.
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In this immense proboscidian, whose skull was three feet long, the upper pair of tusks had disappeared, and those of the lower jaw were bent down with a backward curve in walrus fashion.
The Elements of Geology
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Its ice-covered waters support bowhead whales, Pacific walruses, polar bears and other marine mammals found nowhere else in the nation.
Marilyn Heiman: President Obama, Are We Really Ready To Drill Here?
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I removed my cap to reveal a slipping hairstyle (going, going, almost gone) and did a pirouette, graceful as a walrus in ballerina tights.
Million Americans in Mexico? Just guessing
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the curved tusks of a walrus
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Occasionally they even pluck a walrus, beluga whale, or narwhal from the watery depths below the pack ice.
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Aquatic mammals that live in the waters off the coast include walrus, ringed seals, bearded seals, beluga, narwhal, and various other whales.
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We place you herewith a sample order for $ 750, for walrus tusk and whale tooth carving.
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A whale of a walrus is the new star attraction at Seaworld in San Diego.
CNN Transcript Jan 11, 2007
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Polar bears are seagoing hunters that roam vast areas of the Arctic, pursuing a movable feast of seals, narwhals, beluga whales, and walruses.
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They include some of the country's rarest and least protected species, like the American wolverine, whose ranks have dwindled to fewer than 500 in the lower 48 states, and the Pacific walrus, which is rapidly losing the sea ice it needs to survive.
Kieran Suckling: 'Extinction Rider' Would Unravel Years of Work Protecting Rare Species
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Walruses were killed for three centuries for their oil, skin, and ivory from their tusks.
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In the Marvel Comics adaptation of Star Wars, the confrontation remains intact, but Jabba is a tall humanoid with a walrus-like face, a scraggly topknot, and a bright uniform.
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The tag, which he deploys with a crossbow, is a hockey puck-sized transmitter that embeds into the thick walrus skin.
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We were relieved not to have had to use our borrowed anti-polar bear rifle, but disappointed not to see any bears, walruses, narwhal or beluga.
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Marine mammals include narwhals, beluga whales, walrus, and ringed and bearded seals.
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The exhibit, showcasing such images as kayaks, walruses, seals and narwhal, reflects the close relationship between Inuit and water.
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One of the local law enforcement people came over to him, a big man with frost in his walrus mustache.
AMERICAN GODS
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Come face to face with polar bears, walruses, harbour seals and beluga whales.
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After an early buffet breakfast on Saturday morning, the family will spend the day at SeaWorld, home to killer whales, walruses, sea lions, beluga whales, sharks and Magellanic penguins.
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Occasionally they even pluck a walrus, beluga whale, or narwhal from the watery depths below the pack ice.
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_Klapmytsen_, the bladdernose seal, (_Cystophora cristata_, Erxl.) the walrus-hunters say they have never seen on Novaya Zemlya, but it is stated to occur yearly in pretty large numbers among the ice
The Voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe, Volume I and Volume II
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The waters are also home to minke whales, several seal species, and walruses, among a multitude of other creatures.
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Four sinister clowns with wings and tails and skirts held high trotted a T-bone Tango Two-step on an enormous cerulean blue beach ball balanced on the nose of a wine red walrus perched precipitously upon a hubcapped Diamond Star Unicycle of unique design.
Unday Morning
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And as one might imagine, an area that walruses use to rest between feedings is riddled with a substantial amount of walrus excretions.
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It shares with the southern parks abundant marine life: Kamchatka crab Paralithodes camtschatica, sea otter (900 animals), sea lion Eumetopias jubatus (EN, 800 breeding animals), Kuril seal Phoca vitulina stejnegeri (500), spotted P. largha and ringed seals P. hispida ochotensis, Risso's dolphin grampus griseus, narwhal Monodon monoceros and walrus Odobenus rosmarus divergens.
Volcanoes of Kamchatka, Russian Federation
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“… The use of the word ‘regime’ in American political parlance is unacceptable, and someone should tell the walrus [Limbaugh] to stop using it.”
Even Chris Matthews doesn’t listen to Chris Matthews. [edited] | RedState
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Polar bears are seagoing hunters that roam vast areas of the Arctic, pursuing a movable feast of seals, narwhals, beluga whales, and walruses.
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Marine mammals include narwhals, beluga whales, walrus, and ringed and bearded seals.
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Polar bears are seagoing hunters that roam vast areas of the Arctic, pursuing a movable feast of seals, narwhals, beluga whales, and walruses.
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Some of the species found here include the walrus, polar bear, beluga, narwhal, bearded seals, harp seal, harbour seal, ringed seal, bowhead whale, ivory gull, and some migratory birds.
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The walrus, which is hunted by the Eskimo in kyak and from ice flow, is also sought after by the Hudson's Bay Company, and is hunted by the Company's employees in small vessels sailing out of Churchill.
Navigation of Hudson's Bay and Straits
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Tradition had it that the island was rich in game (reindeer, polar bears, sables, marten, fish, and certain monsters - perhaps walrus), and that it abounded in marble, crystals, and so on.
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Come face to face with polar bears, walruses, harbour seals and beluga whales.
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Cameraman Norris Brock and I were shooting several stories in nearby Kodiak, Alaska and, since the timing was right and the male walruses were doing their thing, we took a sidetrip.
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He is the queer old duck with the knee - length gaiters and walrus mustache.
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Aquatic mammals that live in the waters off the coast include walrus, ringed seals, bearded seals, beluga, narwhal, and various other whales.
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Marine mammals include narwhals, beluga whales, walrus, and ringed and bearded seals.
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The dugong and the manatee are the descendants of vegetarian hoofed animals; seals, sea-lions and walruses are the descendants of carnivorous animals; beavers are the cousins of purely terrestrial rodents.
DOLPHINS WHALES APES AND MEN
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"I grew up with the ice with my dad taking me out every spring, hunting walrus and bearded seal, picking berries, fishing," he said.
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He is the queer old duck with the knee - length gaiters and walrus mustache.
