What do walruses say

He's the size of a cow. He wouldn't move. With no luck with the brush, Mr Sidwell said the crew member tried a different approach. He must have thought, 'I've had enough of this noise', and turned into the sea," he recalled. The RNLI said the lifeboat was responding to two canoeists who got into difficulty between Stackpole and Broadhaven, about 10 miles west of Tenby.

Since Wally's arrival, the crew has learned that "making a bit of noise" can encourage the walrus off the slipway while the lifeboat is launched, the charity said. Reflecting on the experience, Mr Sidwell, who travelled home on Wednesday, said he felt privileged because seeing such animals in the flesh was "extremely rare".

But he's healthy and putting on weight since he first turned up," he added. How do you move a walrus that has other ideas? And they can pull themselves up using those tusks right onto the ice floes, or they can use them to defend themselves from other walruses or predators, or even maybe mucking around down at the bottom, sort of like a farmer would be using a rake or different tools, down there as well.

HOST: Wow. In the Octonauts episode, we also hear the walruses make a lot of sounds with their mouths. What sort of sounds do walruses make in the wild? They can make a whistling sound, just like you or I when we would purse our lips together and blow out air, and then they can make clicking sounds. They can take their teeth and clasp them together, where it sounds almost like a woodblock.

They also have these air sacs in their neck. HOST: Fascinating. All right, so is there such a thing as a walrus chief? What is the hierarchy like in that walrus colony? The males will want the prime breeding real estate, the area closest to where the females are going to come out of the water.

The lack of sea ice is really starting to affect them. They rely on that to be able to haul out and go to sleep.

These guys normally can swim and dive and look for food for several days, and then they like to haul out on a piece of ice that is floating by, and go to sleep. When they do that, they sleep for two or three days, and when they roll off that piece of ice, they are in a completely different area, because that ice was floating that whole time. That is a lot more energy they are having to use just to be able to get to their feeding grounds.

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Choose monthly donation Prefer a one-off donation? Choose one-off donation Prefer a monthly donation? Top 10 facts about walruses. Join the fight. More animal facts. There are two main subspecies of walrus The Atlantic and Pacific — which both occupy different areas of the Arctic. Anatoly Kochnev. They weigh a tonne Male Pacific walruses can reach 3.

Both male and female walruses have large tusks They use these tusks to help them haul themselves out of the water and onto sea ice. They can live to around 40 years old And it shows. Walruses are rarely found in deep water They seem to prefer feeding at the bottom of shallow waters, eating clams, molluscs, worms, snails, soft shell crabs, shrimp and sea cucumbers. Pacific walruses spend spring and summer feeding over a huge continental shelf They feed on the shallow continental shelf in the Chukchi Sea.