All about animalsFacts, stories and anecdotes . \ GROUP OF WALRUS. THE SEA ELEPHANT. the jaw, make it almost impossible for anything to get away once it is fairlygripped. THE WALRUS. The Walrus is the mightiest specimen of the seal family. It measuresbetween fourteen and twenty feet long and weighs several tons. All Arcticexplorers agree that the walrus is a dangerous animal. On land its move-ments are slow and clumsy, but in the water nothing will attack the walrus ifthere is a way of escape. On either side of the walruss jaw are two large tusksof ivory. With these the walrus drags i
All about animalsFacts, stories and anecdotes . \ GROUP OF WALRUS. THE SEA ELEPHANT. the jaw, make it almost impossible for anything to get away once it is fairlygripped. THE WALRUS. The Walrus is the mightiest specimen of the seal family. It measuresbetween fourteen and twenty feet long and weighs several tons. All Arcticexplorers agree that the walrus is a dangerous animal. On land its move-ments are slow and clumsy, but in the water nothing will attack the walrus ifthere is a way of escape. On either side of the walruss jaw are two large tusksof ivory. With these the walrus drags itself out of the water onto the ice, butwhen cornered it uses them as weapons of defence. On one occasion a party of hunters spied a number or walrus lying op anice-floe. On attacking them most of the creatures escaped into the water; but THE SEA-LION. one old bull faced around and, in spite of its lance-wounds, fought its last it slid into the water and began to swim away. The hunters hastilylaunched a boat and prepared to follow, when the old fellow suddenly tur
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