What do walrusses eat, and what eats them?

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Answer 1

All lthe Walrus information you could ever ask for ... right here!
http://wilburnes.wcpss.net/rabb/walrus.htm

From the website:

Do you know what walruses eat? They eat clams, crabs, snails, and worms. They use their teeth to eat.

Do you know how walruses protect itself? Males die when fighting with polar bears. Humans are predators to walruses.

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Answer 2

Walruses prefer molluscs, mainly bivalves such as clams. They suck bivalve animals from the shells. Walruses also eat many other kinds of benthic invertebrates including worms, gastropods, cephalopods, crustaceans, sea cucumbers, and other soft-bodied animals. Walruses may occasionally prey on fishes such as polar cod.
Walruses may eat the remains of young seals when food is scarce
There are some rare but habitual seal-eating walruses. Their diet consists mainly of ringed and bearded seals. These are usually male walruses, recognizable because they are usually larger than other males with powerful shoulder and chest muscles. Their skin may become grease-stained from the blubber of the seals.

Polar bears occasionally prey on young walruses and probably eat dead walruses. Walruses are not a main part of the polar bears' diet.
Killer whales may prey on walrus calves and injured adults.
Walruses have been hunted commercially for their meat, skin, and ivory tusks by traders from Norway, Russia, Great Britain, Greenland, Canada, and the United States.

Answer 3

Polar bears eat them and walruses eat fish and shellfish amongst other marine life

Answer 4

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it was cool a polar bear taking on about 200 walrusses
it lost and starved to death very sad but at the same time
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you tube for it

Answer 5

Walruses spend about half their time in the water and half their time on beaches or ice floes where they gather in large herds. They may spend several days at a time either on land or in the sea. In the sea they sometimes catch fish but generally graze along the sea bottom for clams which they suck from the shell. Abrasion patterns of the tusks show that the tusks are dragged through the sediment but are not used to dig up prey. Walruses can also spit jets of water to look for clams. Large male walruses have been observed to attack seals if they cannot find any other food source.

1. Walruses prefer molluscs - mainly bivalves such as clams. They also eat many other kinds of benthic invertebrates including worms, gastropods, cephalopods, crustaceans, sea cucumbers, and other soft-bodied animals. Walruses may occasionally prey on fishes such as polar cod.


2. Walruses may eat the carcasses of young seals when food is scarce.


3. There are some rare but habitual seal-eating walruses. Their diet consists mainly of ringed and bearded seals. These are usually male walruses, recognizable because they are usually larger than other males, with powerful shoulder and chest muscles. Their skin may become grease-stained from the blubber of the seals they prey on

1. Adult walruses eat about 3% to 6% of their total weight per day.


2. Adults may eat as many as 3,000 to 6,000 clams in a single feeding session.


3. Observations of feedings indicate that walruses usually fill their stomachs twice daily.


4. In the summer months, and during the southward migration in the fall, walruses spend most of their day foraging. They eat less on their northward migration in the spring. Food intake for mature male walruses dramatically decreases during the breeding season and probably for a shorter time for females in estrus. Pregnant females increase food consumption about 30% to 40%.

1. Walruses usually forage on the bottom within 80 m (262 ft.) of the surface. Most feeding probably takes place between 10 and 50 m (33-164 ft.).


2. Because visibility is poor in deep and murky waters, walruses rely on their vibrissae to locate food. A walrus moves its snout along the bottom, rooting through the sediment and using its vibrissae to help detect prey. Abrasion patterns of the tusks show that they are dragged through the sediment, but are not used to dig up prey.


3. In addition, researchers have seen foraging Atlantic walruses rapidly waving a foreflipper to uncover prey from the sediment. The walruses that were observed, preferentially used their right flipper when foraging this way.


4. Evidence shows that walruses may take in mouthfuls of water and squirt powerful jets at the sea floor, excavating burrowing invertebrates such as clams.


5. Walruses do not chew their food, but they do sometimes crush clam shells.

• Soft-bodied invertebrates are usually not crushed or torn. A walrus sucks off the foot and the fleshy siphon of a clam and swallows it whole.

• The cheek teeth do get worn, but this is probably from abrasion by minute particles of sand that walruses inadvertently take into their mouths and not from crushing clam shells.


6. Researchers have found numerous pebbles and small stones in the stomachs of walruses. These are thought to be ingested while feeding.

PREDATORS

1. Polar bears occasionally prey on walrus calves and probably eat dead walruses. Walruses are not a main part of the polar bears' diet.


2. Killer whales may prey on walrus calves and injured adults.

Hope this is ok!

Answer 6

They eat seals and kelp while the sharks and killer whales eat baby walruses

Answer 7

Fish. Sharks and whales will eat walrusses. Sometimes dolphin may attack the walrusses too.

Answer 8

They eat clams, worms, crab, fish......polar bears eat them....and humans hunt them

Answer 9

Have a look at http://www.manatee.k12.fl.us/sites/elementary/samoset/Q2week7_3rd.pdf#search='what%20do%20walruses%20eat%3F'
there's your answer!

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