What are Elephant Seals?
The walrus (scientific name: Odobenus rosmarus (Linnaeus, 1758)) is an animal of the walrus family. As the name suggests, the elephant in the sea has a large body, thick and wrinkled skin, sparse setae, small eyes, and poor vision . Has two long teeth. [1] Unlike the elephant with fat ears, long nose, and thick limbs on the land, its limbs have been degraded into fins due to adaptation to life in the water. Elephants walk on the land like that, only by the hind fins bending forward and the tusks stabbing into the ice can they advance on the ice, so the scientific name of the walrus, if translated in Chinese, is walking with teeth It also has a short nose and lacks ear shells. It looks very ugly.
- The body is cylindrical, stout and obese. The male is 3.3 to 4.5 meters long and weighs 1200 to 3000 kilograms. The female is smaller. The body is generally 2.9 to 3.3 meters long and weighs 600 to 900 kilograms. Flat head, blunt snout, around upper lip
- Walruses mainly live in temperate waters near or near the Arctic. [3]
- Walruses are swarms of animals that live in icy waters and on ice blocks on land.
- Each male has many females. In the breeding season, he establishes his territory on the beach. The best position is occupied by the strongest male. The lower position can only find a place at the end of the beach. Some had to be forced to lie down in the sea
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