Molting Time for the Walrus
In Molting Time for the Walrus, narrator Sir David Attenborough describes how walruses eat and molt. Watch a walrus molting and finding food off the coast of Greenland. This video is excerpted from BBC’s Blue Planet, a definitive documentary series diving into the mysterious depths of the sea to discover the natural history of the world’s oceans and the rarely seen marine life that reside there.
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Q: How does bathing in the cold water help the walrus?
A: It brings relief from the itching from parasites on its skin.
Q: Why do the walruses go to deeper waters?
A: They dig for soft-shell clams in the sand in the deeper waters.
Q: How long can the walrus feed in the deeper waters?
A: They can only feed at that depth for about five minutes before they return to the surface to breathe.
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