Walrus Facts, Habitat, and Conservation | Marine Mammal Guide #3372498 (License: Personal Use)

This image captures a mature Pacific walrus (Odobenus rosmarus divergens) in a relaxed terrestrial posture, highlighting its deeply wrinkled, pinkish-brown hide, prominent upper canines (tusks), and robust foreflippers used for locomotion on ice and land. The animal’s thick blubber layer and sparse whiskers (vibrissae) are adaptations for thermoregulation and benthic foraging. Walruses spend much of their time hauled out on sea ice or coastal haul-outs, especially during breeding and molting seasons.

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