In the longer term, the tagging information could also help to assess how climate change is affecting these Arctic animals.

BBC: Walruses (Image: BBC)

It showed polar bear cubs in a den with their mother, with many people assuming the young animals were born and filmed in the Arctic.

BBC: Sir David Attenborough

Similar behavior exists in herds of caribou that migrate across the Arctic coastal plan to a specific calving ground even though it is unlikely any of the individual animals know where they are going.

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