Seahorse come big semi-aquatic mammals that live in a cold Arctic seas of the Northern Hemisphere. 2 race survive: a Atlantic, Odobenus rosmarus rosmarus, and a Pacific, Odobenus rosmarus divergens. A Pacific walrus is slightly larger, a male weighing as much as 4000 pound (I.Eighter from decatur t).

A seahorse occurs as member of choose Carnivora and is the only mintage in the personal Odobenidae. A compound odobenus comes from either odous (Greek for "tooth") and baino (Greek for "walk"), according to observations of sea horse utilizing their tusks to pull themselves out of a water system. Rosmarus originates in the Swedish word for walrus. Divergens inside Latin means "turning apart", referring to the tusks.

Life cycle

Seahorse mate in the water supply & give birth toward land or even ice floes. It feed the a water system, diving to depths of 300 foot (Xc m), another time staying under for when yearn as a half hour. Clams & shellfish form the big section of their diet. Male sea horse compete for territory, typically fighting every more; a winners within these fights breed using big many females. Older male sea horse often bear big scars from either these all-fired however seldom disastrous battles.

Pacific walruses spend a summertime northward of the Bering Strait in the Chukchi Sea along the northwards shore of eastern Siberia, around Wrangel Island, in the Beaufort Sea along the northwards shore of Alaska, and in the waters between people locations.

Little many males summertime in the Gulf of Anadyr on the south shore of the Chukchi Peninsula of Siberia and within Bristol Bay off a to the south shore of southern Alaska west of the Alaska Peninsula.

In the spring & fall it congregate in the Bering Strait, adjacent to the west shores of Alaska, & in the Gulf of Anadyr. It winter in a south in the Bering Sea along the eastern shore of Siberia south to the northern a portion of the Kamchatka Peninsula, and along a southern shore of Alaska.

Seahorse have the breeding year inside mid-winter, a instance spent in the southern Bering sea. A males ostentate in the a river for the females world health organization watch the two from either box ice. Males compete by having both more sharply for this display-space. Pairing probably requires place in the a water supply. When fertilization the embryo remains inactive for many months, so a gestation of Eleven months follows. Whilst the calf is innate these are ended Ternion foot (One m) yearn & take a breath to swimming. Birth requires place on a few ice; the calf nurses for astir Ii years, spending Three to Five years using its mother. Females mature at astir Sextet years, males at Ix or even X. The sea horse experiences astir Forty years.

Life style
Sea horse spend just about half their period within the a water supply & half their period in beaches or even ice floes in which it gather in heavy herds. It could spend many times at the stretch either ashore or even in the sea. In the sea it for instance catch fish but generally graze along a ocean floor for clams which they suck from either their cases. Abrasion system of the tusks indicate that it is dragged through the deposit, however are non wont to turn up prey. Seahorse keep around been found to attack narwhal.

Population
Just astir 200,000 Pacific walruses survive; Alaskan indigen harvest about 3000 annually. It have their yearn tusks (longer canines) for fighting & for display. Man utilise ivory from the tusks for carving. A indigen call for a penis bone of male an oosik and use it within making knives. Seahorse own merely ii natural enemies: homo & a polar bear. Polar bears hunt sea horse by rushing at a two, trying to develop the herd to flee, so picking off calves or even more strayer.

Federal laws withwithin two a United states & in Canada protect sea horse & placed quotas on the annually harvest. Simply under uncommon circumstances could non-native hunters benefit permission to stamp out the seahorse legally. A law prohibits a exportation of raw tusks from either Alaska, however walrus-ivory products could came on the market in case foremost sculpted into scrimshaw by a native craftsman. Commercial auction web sites like eBay make a big choice of "pre-ban" sea horse ivory available.

Just about 15,000 Atlantic walruses survive: it sleep in a Canadian Arctic, in the waters of Greenland and in the waters of the western part of the Russian Arctic. the Atlantic walrus it used to be that enjoyed a range that extended south to Cape Cod and occurred in heavy statistics in the Gulf of St. Lawrence.

The walrus in culture
Around Western culture, fiction often depicts a species -- by using its embonpoint immune system, bushy mustache, & peacefully sleepy-eyed expression -- when a happy, loveable & friendly creature, and its appearance can be interpreted as somewhat mirthful.

Walruses in literature and music

Farley Mowat's book Sea of Slaughter has a big divisiin dedicated to the results of hunting on eastern Canada's seahorse people.

Lewis Carroll's famous poem The Walrus and the Carpenter inspired the 1967 song "I Am the Walrus" by The Beatles.

The Walrus is a Canadian news magazine.

Around Salman Rushdie's children's book Haroun and the Sea of Stories, The Seahorse is the title of the imposing Grand Controller of Gup.

In the song "I Am the Walrus" by the Beatles, John Lennon is "the Walrus." Notwithstanding, sequentially to deliberately confuse his fans, Lennon sings in the late song "Glass Onion" that "the Walrus was Paul".

Sea horse is too a title of Cap'tain Flint's ship within "Treasure Island" (R.L.Stevenson)

Trivia
Savoonga in Alaska calls itself the "Walrus Capital of the World".