Arctic: Melting ice causes the walrus to die
According to a study published in April by the Journal of Aquatic Animals, arctic scientists have discovered the death of newborn walruses due to warming temperatures melting ice sheets.
Melting ice sheets - the danger of destroying walrus.
Two years ago, in the wake of the Canadian Gulf icebergs, scientists discovered unusual warming temperatures of water as high as 44 ° F (7 ° C) moving from the sea. Bering to the south pole. Scientists say the temperature of the warming water quickly caused the ice shelves of Alaska's northern continental shelf to melt.
They discovered nine abandoned newborn walruses - an "unprecedented number" of walrus in the condition that their mother must be with them for two years.
Carin Ashjian, a biologist at Woods Hole Oceanographic Research Institute, said: " We were on a 24-hour continental shelf, the scorpions were swimming around us, seemingly calling for help but they were I can't save them ".
Icebergs are a place for them to rest. Their mother abandoned them as they dove to the sea floor to catch prey like the crabs and boys.
According to scientists, the ocean temperature increased, which made it possible for the hippocampus to abandon the baby to retreat to the cold north.
The baby walrus without mother almost starved or drowned. They cannot feed themselves and know how to eat. The warming of the poles is a warning for the existence of walrus.
Scientists conclude: " This is the destruction of walrus and other animals in conditions of global warming. The melting ice sheets have made animals no longer shelter safely . "
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