COSEWIC Assessment and Status Report on the Atlantic Walrus, Odobenus Rosmarus Rosmarus, High Arctic Population, Central-low Arctic Population, Nova Scotia-Newfoundland-Gulf...
- ISBN-10
- 0660092093
- ISBN-13
- 9780660092096
- Category
- Endangered species
- Pages
- 89
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2017
- Author
- David Bruce Stewart
Description
"Walrus are large gregarious pinnipeds with upper canine teeth that grow into long tusks and a moustache of quill-like vibrissae. Newborns are 120 cm long and 55 kg; males can grow to 315 cm and 1100 kg and females to 277 cm and 800 kg. The Atlantic Walrus, Odobenus rosmarus rosmarus (Linnaeus, 1758) is one of two extant subspecies, the other being the Pacific Walrus (O. r. divergens). Atlantic Walrus traditionally provided important staples in the subsistence economy of the eastern Canadian Arctic and Greenland. The hunts are still of great social and cultural significance, and the economic value of the meat and ivory is substantial. The Walrus is important as the only living species in its family and a key link in the Arctic food web between bivalve molluscs and humans"--Wildlife Species Description and Significance, p. v.
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