❗Walrus Patient Update: Walrus Diet Part 1❗ Currently, our walrus calf patient is eating 1.5 L of specialized milk formula and electrolytes every four hours. We will never be able to match a walrus mother’s nutritious milk exactly, but the formula emulates it as closely as we can. Once she is weaned off the formula, she will be introduced to foods that Pacific walrus would eat in the wild, like clams! Walrus eat a wide variety of soft invertebrates found in the ocean like snails, sea cucumbers,

For a walrus, a day in their life can be nice: dine on some clams and mussels, take a nice swim, hang out with a thousand of your friends on the shore, brush your huge teeth aka tusks and maybe comb your whiskers. See what life is like for a Pacific walrus in a behind-the-scenes look into a day in their life! | Defenders of Wildlife

❗Walrus Patient Update: Walrus Diets Part 2❗ Have you ever wondered about the shape of a walrus’s mouth? We certainly have, and once you understand their diet, it all starts to make sense. Walrus eat primarily invertebrates found on the ocean floor like clams and snails. They use their super-sensitive and tactile vibrissae (whiskers) to search for their food along the sea floor. They use their mouths and movement of the tongue to create powerful suction to remove only the soft parts of clams and

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