In the past swimmers have come dresses as anything from bananas to fishes and walruses.
After days of nothing, seven walruses had been tagged in just a few hours.
All told, SeaWorld Entertainment has 93 different attractions devoted to water life whales, orcas, dolphins, otters, walruses.
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Declining ice levels also poses a threat to Arctic wildlife including polar bears, walruses and ringed seals.
The environmental campaign Greenpeace says it has found evidence that walruses and other Arctic species are being affected by climate change.
The Vikings tossed logs, the Scots threw sheaves of straw, the ancestors of the Inuit are rumored to have carried walruses around.
There are rumors of rogue walruses that prey on seals, puncturing them with their tusks, then sucking out the fat with their powerful mouths.
We spent hours watching seals and whales (alas, no bears or walruses), visited bird cliffs, climbed icebergs and learned how to build an igloo.
The firm's emergency-response plan spoke of protecting the area's walruses an easy task, since there aren't any and consulting an ecologist who had died in 2005.
Similar satellite technology was used on the Pacific species of walruses, not considered endangered, but never on the Atlantic species, which is considered rare and threatened.
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On a recent morning, walls and floors were ripped out of several exhibits, including the Sea Cliffs (much loved for its intimate views of walruses cavorting underwater) and the Alien Stingers building.
The scientists will also use the tags to find out whether oil exploration is altering the creatures' movements, and they will also help to establish whether the number of walruses being hunted in west Greenland at present is sustainable.
Even though I had been assured that the tags wouldn't hurt the walruses because of their tough skin and thick layer of blubber, I was still relieved to see that the animal barely seemed to notice the tag as it landed on its hide.
Unfortunately two of the tags were lost - they skimmed on the water just before they hit the walruses, sinking to the bottom of the sea, but another one, launched by Ole with the harpoon, hit a walrus squarely between the shoulders - the perfect place for a sat-tag.
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