THE ATLANTIC WALRUS 
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of 1879-80, when the sea was frozen all around 
St. Lawrence Island, for many miles in every 
direction, the Walrus herds were forced to re- 
YOUNG ATLANTIC WALRUS. 
Captured by Commander R. E. Peary, and exhibited 
in the New York Zoological Park. 
main so far away that all the inhabitants of the 
Island, save one small settlement, died of starva- 
tion. 
The Atlantic Walrus 1 is of about the same 
1 O-do-ben' us ros-ma'rus. 
length as the Pacific species, but it has a shorter 
and much smaller neck. Its tusks, also, are 
much smaller. It is still found in considerable 
numbers in Smith’s Sound, and is quite abundant 
north of Franz Joseph Land, where Nansen pho- 
tographed and killed many. Its most northerly 
latitude is 82°. A specimen killed by Comman- 
der Robert E. Peary was 9 feet in length, and 
weighed 1,569 pounds. The skin alone weighed 
220 pounds. 
Professor L. L. Dyche has kindly furnished 
the measurements of the largest male Walrus 
out of eighteen taken by him on the coast of 
northern Greenland : 
Length (straight line), end of nose to end 
of body, 129 inches. 
Tail, exposed, none. 
Length of rear flippers, 26 inches. 
Girth of animal when suspended by the 
neck, 129 inches. 
Exposed length of tusk, 19 inches. 
Circumference of tusk at base, 8 1 - inches. 
The largest cow Walrus measured 116 inches 
in length, 1 13 in girth, exposed tusk, lOf inches. 
