Over And Out From Tagged Walruses
October 11, 2007 @ 06:27 AM (EST)
Source: Bbc.co.uk
In April, researchers attached transmitters to eight of west Greenland's walruses in a bid to uncover their secret summer hide-out.
While many tags failed early on, one of the satellite devices showed a walrus migrating to Baffin Island in Canada.
The data will help discern the impacts of hunting, oil exploration and climate change on the animals. The BBC News website has followed the walruses' progress over the last six months. On the Walrus Watch map, walrus two, whose tag last signalled on 18 August, can be seen travelling more than 500km (300 miles) west from Hellefiske Bank, where it was tagged, to south-east Baffin Island...
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