Here's an endearing portrait of that wonderful, little known and oft-misunderstood fatso of the Arctic pack ice known as the Walrus. Natalie Angier in NYT:
In the public pantheon of marine mammaldom, dolphins are adored, whales
revered, and seal pups make old Bond girls swoon. But walruses remain
perversely, lumpishly obscure, known mostly for their sing-song linkage
with a carpenter, an eggman and goo goo goo joob. To which Dr.
Schusterman and his colleagues might well respond with a blast of a
Bronx kazoo. Odobenus rosmarus is a magnificent creature, they say,
behaviorally, anatomically, acoustically and taxonomically in a
category all its own.
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