New Batch of Walruses Gets Tagged
By Wendy Heller, May 12, 2008 @ 02:00 AM (EST)
Source: Bbc.co.uk
Ten walruses in Greenland have been fitted with satellite tags in a new bid to confirm whether the blubbery beasts spend their summers in Canada.
Last year, the same team tagged eight walruses in west Greenland; however, all but one of the sat-tags failed.
The lone working device, fitted to a female walrus, revealed that she had journeyed to Baffin Island, Canada.
The team now awaits the results of the latest study to see if this spot really is the walruses' secret summer hideout.
Until now, scientists have not known exactly where west Greenland's walruses migrate - come summer, the enormous animals simply vanish off the radar...
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