WEBVTT - The Huggable, Lovable Walrus 0:00:01.120 --> 0:00:04.600 Welcome to Stuff you Should Know from how Stuff Works 0:00:04.600 --> 0:00:14.800 dot com. Hey, and welcome to the podcast. I'm MC Josh, 0:00:15.880 --> 0:00:20.759 Josh Clark. There's ch ch Chuck Bryant, and then Jerry's 0:00:20.800 --> 0:00:24.479 the DJ on the wheels and steel of Stuff you 0:00:24.480 --> 0:00:28.040 Should Know the podcast. And that has nothing to do 0:00:28.080 --> 0:00:32.160 with what we're talking about today. What, No, it doesn't. 0:00:32.479 --> 0:00:35.800 I couldn't even faint surprise. I know it has nothing 0:00:35.880 --> 0:00:38.959 to do with it. I was just being silly. You 0:00:39.000 --> 0:00:42.199 like it? I love it. Silly Josh is one of 0:00:42.240 --> 0:00:48.639 my top five favorite Josh is is it? I thought so. 0:00:48.720 --> 0:00:52.480 I guess you're feeling pretty good today, Jerry, you are too, Yeah, 0:00:52.520 --> 0:00:56.200 she says, yeah everybody. Um, well, the reason we're feeling 0:00:56.200 --> 0:01:00.680 good is because there are a fewer just simple pleasures 0:01:00.720 --> 0:01:05.400 in life then researching and talking about animals. Agreed. It's 0:01:05.400 --> 0:01:08.680 one of my favorite s Y s K episode categories 0:01:08.720 --> 0:01:11.160 as animal ones. Yeah, and it sort of don I 0:01:11.160 --> 0:01:12.720 picked this one out and it sort of dawned on me. 0:01:12.760 --> 0:01:17.440 It had been a minute, and um. Sometimes these are 0:01:17.560 --> 0:01:20.080 some of our lighter lifts because we have some really 0:01:20.120 --> 0:01:23.880 great house to works articles on animals and insects, so 0:01:23.920 --> 0:01:27.800 it doesn't require like, you know, another twenty hours of 0:01:27.840 --> 0:01:31.080 research on stuff. Uh, and we needed a lighter lift 0:01:31.120 --> 0:01:32.640 this week. And I was like, hey, it's been a while. 0:01:33.280 --> 0:01:36.840 I was perusing I saw walrus Is and they're so 0:01:36.959 --> 0:01:40.920 darn cute and been lovable. I thought, all right, well 0:01:41.000 --> 0:01:43.279 we got to get in there on this. Yeah. Plus 0:01:43.319 --> 0:01:46.440 is a Jennifer Horton joint. And remember she used to 0:01:46.520 --> 0:01:49.400 be like the in house animal writer. Oh was it? Yeah? 0:01:49.440 --> 0:01:52.600 She she doesn't remember. Yeah, what would happen to her? 0:01:52.920 --> 0:01:56.000 I don't know, but she left behind a legacy that 0:01:56.120 --> 0:01:59.760 includes an article on walrus Is. Yeah. And I will 0:01:59.800 --> 0:02:01.680 go and say up front, this is now in the 0:02:01.760 --> 0:02:06.640 running for me with a little competition between the octopus 0:02:07.520 --> 0:02:10.680 and the jellyfish. Okay, well then this is what we're 0:02:10.680 --> 0:02:16.720 gonna do. You're gonna go, um, but that's all I 0:02:16.720 --> 0:02:20.520 can think of when um, when a fact comes up 0:02:20.560 --> 0:02:22.280 that you're like, this is one of the reasons why 0:02:22.280 --> 0:02:27.240 they're in competition. Okay, okay, all right. Oh and before 0:02:27.280 --> 0:02:29.840 we get started. Also before we get started, sorry, um, 0:02:30.160 --> 0:02:32.160 I wanted to give a big shout out to our 0:02:32.200 --> 0:02:35.399 pals at The Daily Zeitgeist, one of our sister podcasts. 0:02:35.680 --> 0:02:38.520 They had me on yesterday. I know, I haven't listened 0:02:38.560 --> 0:02:40.480 to it yet. How was it? It was pretty great? 0:02:40.520 --> 0:02:43.560 Like they make it really easy on you. Um, They're like, here, 0:02:43.720 --> 0:02:46.280 read all these articles that were potentially going to talk 0:02:46.320 --> 0:02:49.080 about and study them for five hours, just like you 0:02:49.160 --> 0:02:51.480 do stuff you should know, and then we're not going 0:02:51.520 --> 0:02:56.360 to talk about any of those not a single article 0:02:56.800 --> 0:03:00.280 that I researched. Dude, we talk about. But I've managed 0:03:00.320 --> 0:03:02.720 to keep up anyway. That's how easy those guys make it. 0:03:02.840 --> 0:03:05.640 So thank you to Jack and Miles and Anna for 0:03:05.639 --> 0:03:07.839 for having me. And I guess when you're hearing this 0:03:08.560 --> 0:03:11.200 by yesterday, I mean March five, So go back and 0:03:11.240 --> 0:03:13.480 listen to the March fifth episode of Daily's Like Guys, 0:03:13.600 --> 0:03:16.160 and then listen to all the episodes of Daily's Like Guys. Yeah, 0:03:16.160 --> 0:03:18.880 I saw that they had a cutout, cardboard cutout of 0:03:18.880 --> 0:03:20.799 you sitting in a chair, which is kind of funny. Yeah, 0:03:20.880 --> 0:03:23.360 it is funny. But then I'm like, well, what are 0:03:23.400 --> 0:03:25.400 you guys doing with a cardboard cut out of me? 0:03:25.840 --> 0:03:29.160 Probably made it right, I guess, but I didn't. That's 0:03:29.320 --> 0:03:32.200 they got a big budget. Then we don't have a 0:03:32.200 --> 0:03:34.839 budget for cardboard cutouts. No, But I'm glad you gave 0:03:34.840 --> 0:03:37.440 me the inside skinny because I'm gonna be on at 0:03:37.520 --> 0:03:40.440 some point. And now I'm gonna say, hey, don't don't 0:03:40.480 --> 0:03:43.680 do that crap you did with Josh. I'm not reading 0:03:43.680 --> 0:03:46.280 a bunch of stuff unless we're doing it. Yeah, no, no, 0:03:46.480 --> 0:03:49.720 just show up to show up relaxed and prepared to talk, 0:03:49.760 --> 0:03:52.800 and you will be great. Uh So, the other thing 0:03:52.800 --> 0:03:55.920 I had to say of the two things running in 0:03:56.080 --> 0:04:02.760 for my favorite animal and another movie prediction from apparently 0:04:02.840 --> 0:04:08.520 on the Great Movie Predictor or just Life predictor, uh, Pixar, 0:04:09.280 --> 0:04:12.120 get on it, because if you don't do a lovable 0:04:12.120 --> 0:04:14.360 story about a family of walrus is at some point, 0:04:14.880 --> 0:04:16.920 then someone else is gonna beat you to the punch, 0:04:17.160 --> 0:04:20.560 maybe us, and it's gonna be great because there's nothing cuter. 0:04:21.520 --> 0:04:25.080 Just look up on your on your favorite image search 0:04:25.560 --> 0:04:31.039 walrus calf and mother or just walrus calf and get 0:04:31.040 --> 0:04:34.520 ready to be outcuted by most other animals. Like they're 0:04:34.560 --> 0:04:36.960 so cute they can make you forget that you're watching 0:04:37.000 --> 0:04:41.120 them live in captivity. That's how cute those things that 0:04:41.440 --> 0:04:44.200 some of these are photographed in the wild. Yeah, the 0:04:44.800 --> 0:04:47.360 videos that I've seen of calves are mostly the one 0:04:47.400 --> 0:04:49.200 that was born at Sea World. It was like the 0:04:49.240 --> 0:04:53.159 first walrus born in captivity. I think, if I'm not mistaken, 0:04:53.600 --> 0:04:55.919 he is just as cute as the day is long. 0:04:56.800 --> 0:05:03.000 But not small. I mean like it's it's like our size. Yeah, 0:05:03.000 --> 0:05:06.040 they're not small. No, So like, apparently here's a fact 0:05:06.080 --> 0:05:09.039 for you. I'm gonna give you. I'm gonna give you 0:05:09.080 --> 0:05:12.400 the chance to do your heraldry. I'm not gonna make 0:05:12.440 --> 0:05:17.320 any sounds alright, cool um, the walrus calf is born 0:05:18.160 --> 0:05:22.719 born no less than ninety nine pounds and up to 0:05:22.960 --> 0:05:30.000 a hundred and sixty five pounds born. How much to 0:05:30.279 --> 0:05:32.359 undred and sixty five pounds? And for our friends outside 0:05:32.360 --> 0:05:39.200 of the United States, that's forty five born. Yes, so 0:05:39.960 --> 0:05:44.160 a mother a cow, walrus cow. She's hoping for a 0:05:44.279 --> 0:05:49.920 nd right for the ease of birth because they only 0:05:49.920 --> 0:05:53.120 get up to like a hundred pounds. So they're like 0:05:53.200 --> 0:05:58.440 all calf and they're all water bursts. Though no, there're 0:05:58.480 --> 0:06:01.760 ice perths. Kind about that. Yeah, all right, we'll get it. 0:06:01.800 --> 0:06:04.440 We're getting ahead of ourselves. I'm getting excited. All right, 0:06:04.480 --> 0:06:06.560 we should go back to the beginning. Who invented walters? 0:06:06.680 --> 0:06:12.320 Is they were invented by the guy who invented sea monkeys, uh, 0:06:12.480 --> 0:06:14.839 which just dropped today. Yeah, that was a good one. 0:06:14.920 --> 0:06:21.279 It was alright, So should we go to uh by beginning, 0:06:21.600 --> 0:06:24.280 we just mean we're going to talk about walters is Well, 0:06:24.320 --> 0:06:26.080 how about this, we could talk about where they came 0:06:26.080 --> 0:06:29.320 from because um walrace has lived and they're very very 0:06:29.360 --> 0:06:34.680 isolated and as they exist today, there's two species and 0:06:34.760 --> 0:06:37.680 I guess they're really subspecies, but they can't mate and 0:06:37.720 --> 0:06:41.440 they're geographically isolated, so they're they're technically two different species. 0:06:41.680 --> 0:06:43.560 Can they not mate because they're not near each other 0:06:43.640 --> 0:06:46.880 or their parts don't fit? Jennifer Horton, I don't know. 0:06:47.160 --> 0:06:51.760 She just says that they're um reproductively isolated, which means 0:06:52.640 --> 0:06:58.520 they can't, you know, so they can kiss. I don't exactly. 0:06:58.920 --> 0:07:01.400 I don't know if that means that that, yeah, like 0:07:01.440 --> 0:07:04.679 their parts don't fit or but she says they're they're 0:07:04.720 --> 0:07:08.119 geographically isolated too, So why would you also say that 0:07:08.800 --> 0:07:10.840 if you know they were one and the same. So 0:07:10.880 --> 0:07:14.480 that's just injury, I guess, I guess so. But there 0:07:14.520 --> 0:07:18.880 are two groups subspecies or species of walrus is the 0:07:19.200 --> 0:07:24.080 Pacific walrus and the Atlantic walrus, and they're both related. 0:07:24.120 --> 0:07:27.720 They think they diverged as recently as like half a 0:07:27.720 --> 0:07:30.120 million years ago. It's like five thousand years ago. There 0:07:30.200 --> 0:07:32.520 used to be a lot of different walrus species. Now 0:07:32.520 --> 0:07:36.080 there's just the two um. But at some point they 0:07:36.120 --> 0:07:42.280 all descended from and the same ancestor of red pandas. 0:07:42.320 --> 0:07:45.400 So walruses are related to red pandas, just a little 0:07:45.760 --> 0:07:48.840 back on the family tree. And they're even more related 0:07:49.040 --> 0:07:51.880 to red Pandas than they would be to say, like manatees, 0:07:51.880 --> 0:07:53.720 would you'd be like, well, manatees and walrus is the 0:07:53.760 --> 0:07:57.320 same thing. Nope, not even remotely related. I thought you're 0:07:57.320 --> 0:08:03.600 gonna say Wilford Brimley, he's one, or Friedrich Nietzsche. Oh, 0:08:03.640 --> 0:08:07.200 does he have the walrus mustache? Yeah? Are yosemboite Sam? Yeah? 0:08:07.280 --> 0:08:10.560 And that. Then there was the professional golfer Craig Stadler. 0:08:11.200 --> 0:08:13.920 I don't remember him he uh, he's probably on the 0:08:13.960 --> 0:08:17.600 senior tour now, but he was. His nickname was the Walrus. Well, 0:08:17.640 --> 0:08:19.760 he would need to look out for Jack Nicholas, whose 0:08:19.840 --> 0:08:24.160 nickname was the Golden Bear. Yeah. They didn't get along, so, 0:08:24.480 --> 0:08:26.640 really did they not? No? No, that would be the 0:08:26.680 --> 0:08:32.960 polar bear. Yeah, any I guess so the today, Chuck. 0:08:33.120 --> 0:08:36.320 There are walrus is in the north of the Pacific 0:08:36.400 --> 0:08:39.720 and the north of the Atlantic around basically the Arctic. Yes, 0:08:40.000 --> 0:08:44.680 and there's the Pacific walruses, and then the Atlantic walruses. Yeah, 0:08:44.760 --> 0:08:48.880 the Pacific. The differentiation here that the males are generally bigger, 0:08:49.760 --> 0:08:54.680 between nine and twelve feet and roughly sevent undred pounds 0:08:54.760 --> 0:08:58.880 and about four thousand at the top top end women 0:08:59.360 --> 0:09:03.880 women females. The ladies are about seven and a half 0:09:03.920 --> 0:09:06.320 feet to ten feet four hundred to twelve fifty for 0:09:06.440 --> 0:09:10.040 the Pacific. The Atlantic males are a little smaller. They 0:09:10.080 --> 0:09:13.120 top out around the low end of the Pacific and 0:09:13.160 --> 0:09:17.680 about two thousand pounds, and the ladies are shorter and 0:09:17.720 --> 0:09:21.559 a little heavier and about eight feet so about the 0:09:21.600 --> 0:09:24.520 same length but a little a little heavier. Yeah, So 0:09:24.600 --> 0:09:26.480 they're they're big. Man with jam is I mean eight 0:09:26.720 --> 0:09:34.080 DRAMs for Pacific males. That is, that's those are big boys, um, 0:09:34.120 --> 0:09:38.520 And they're all they're all members of the order Pinapedia, 0:09:39.320 --> 0:09:42.120 so they're related to seals and sea lions and their 0:09:42.240 --> 0:09:47.160 Latin name. Their scientific name is otto benice rose maris, 0:09:47.240 --> 0:09:51.520 which means are you ready for this tooth walking sea horse. 0:09:51.840 --> 0:09:54.760 That's great. And the name walrus too, by the way, 0:09:54.800 --> 0:09:59.280 is a Danish word. Yeah, and of that order uh 0:09:59.360 --> 0:10:03.040 pinapede ah. They're the second largest only to the elephant 0:10:03.120 --> 0:10:07.160 seal um. And they're the only one that have those tusks, 0:10:07.200 --> 0:10:11.560 those hallmark tusks of the walrus um on the male 0:10:11.679 --> 0:10:14.480 jutting down while females happened two but on the male 0:10:14.520 --> 0:10:18.800 jutting down from that big um yosemite sam mustache, part 0:10:18.800 --> 0:10:21.640 of what makes them so cute. Yeah, So those tusks, 0:10:21.679 --> 0:10:23.560 And I was looking up with the difference between a 0:10:23.600 --> 0:10:26.440 tusk and a tooth is I think once it really 0:10:26.520 --> 0:10:28.839 kind of protrudes from the mouth, it becomes a tusk. 0:10:29.160 --> 0:10:33.240 But their tusks are just overgrown canines nine te um 0:10:33.280 --> 0:10:35.840 that grow up to I think about a meter three 0:10:35.880 --> 0:10:38.960 ft long. That's crazy long, it is, and they can 0:10:39.000 --> 0:10:41.840 do all sorts of stuff with that, right. So, because 0:10:41.920 --> 0:10:45.839 walruses are so isolated, they're so far north, so far 0:10:45.920 --> 0:10:51.439 away from most humans, um, they have been little studied scientifically. 0:10:51.480 --> 0:10:54.400 Although of the two groups, we know the most about 0:10:54.440 --> 0:11:00.400 the Pacific walrus, but the stuff we do know has 0:11:00.440 --> 0:11:04.280 been largely guesses like, only very recently did we figure 0:11:04.320 --> 0:11:07.240 out that they don't use their tusks to eat, because 0:11:07.240 --> 0:11:11.560 they eat like um, seashells, like mollusks and clams and 0:11:11.640 --> 0:11:14.920 other bivalves. Right, And they used to think that the 0:11:14.960 --> 0:11:18.920 walrus is either use their tusks to like route out 0:11:19.440 --> 0:11:24.160 clams and mollusks off of the sea floor, or they 0:11:24.240 --> 0:11:26.560 use them to pry open shells. While both of those 0:11:26.559 --> 0:11:29.200 are wrong. It turns out they don't use their tusks 0:11:29.240 --> 0:11:32.960 for much except to menace one another when they're trying 0:11:32.960 --> 0:11:36.079 to establish dominance. Yeah, that's that's one of the things 0:11:36.120 --> 0:11:38.280 they can do. But um, I think he used a 0:11:38.280 --> 0:11:41.120 good word, their menace. They don't try and kill one 0:11:41.120 --> 0:11:44.440 another with their tusks. Uh. They like to jab at 0:11:44.440 --> 0:11:48.800 one another and established dominance as like, Hey, I'm I've 0:11:48.800 --> 0:11:52.080 got bigger tusks, some larger than you. But they're not. 0:11:52.720 --> 0:11:54.600 First of all, they're protected. They have this really thick 0:11:54.640 --> 0:11:58.760 skin around their neck and shoulders, so they're they're protected 0:11:58.760 --> 0:12:00.679 in a sense, and they're not getting to kill one 0:12:00.679 --> 0:12:03.560 another either, right, but they do, I mean, they do 0:12:03.679 --> 0:12:05.880 draw blood when they jab each other, so they have 0:12:06.000 --> 0:12:09.720 their their their little technique is they lean their heads 0:12:09.720 --> 0:12:14.600 back like so so that their tusks are parallel with 0:12:14.640 --> 0:12:20.640 the earth, and then they go ninja strike right, and 0:12:20.760 --> 0:12:23.440 they'll draw a little blood and they'll even like leave scars. 0:12:23.480 --> 0:12:25.800 But like you said, their necks are so protected with blubber. 0:12:25.880 --> 0:12:30.040 It's like it mainly is just to to make a point, 0:12:30.160 --> 0:12:34.839 and the point typically is move from what I can understand. Yeah, 0:12:34.880 --> 0:12:37.080 they also will use their tusks sometimes to break through 0:12:37.120 --> 0:12:40.960 ice to breathe. And then this one cute, cute move 0:12:41.640 --> 0:12:46.240 they're swimming around, they're tired, they might stick their head 0:12:46.280 --> 0:12:49.240 through and hook their tusks onto the ice and just 0:12:49.280 --> 0:12:52.520 hang there for a bit, Yeah, which is pretty great. Yeah, 0:12:52.559 --> 0:12:55.719 they have these sacks, fairy geal sacks that allow them 0:12:55.800 --> 0:12:59.240 to kind of buoy upright, keep their head upright above water. 0:12:59.720 --> 0:13:02.040 But would guess that that gets tiring after a while 0:13:02.080 --> 0:13:05.719 and eventually just let the old teeth do it, you know. Yeah, 0:13:05.800 --> 0:13:07.480 And like I said, the ladies have them too, But 0:13:07.559 --> 0:13:11.800 the males are longer and stronger, a little bit straighter. Uh, 0:13:11.840 --> 0:13:14.199 and they can grow. I mean a wal risk can 0:13:14.240 --> 0:13:16.640 live up to thirty years and the tusks may grow 0:13:16.760 --> 0:13:19.800 for about half of that life. Yeah, I saw thirty. 0:13:19.840 --> 0:13:22.680 I also saw forty somewhere that they can live up 0:13:22.720 --> 0:13:24.880 to forty. All right, that's one of the things. I'm 0:13:24.920 --> 0:13:28.080 not gonna make the noise, but anytime animals live a 0:13:28.120 --> 0:13:31.480 long time with one another, um that that kind of 0:13:31.480 --> 0:13:34.960 gets me. Yeah, and I found this very fascinating about 0:13:35.000 --> 0:13:41.080 Wallace is Man. They are um, very social creatures. Like 0:13:41.160 --> 0:13:45.000 they hang out together, they like swim around together. Um. 0:13:45.400 --> 0:13:49.480 The boys rest together for you know, months at a 0:13:49.520 --> 0:13:52.640 time or weeks at a time, sometimes during certain times 0:13:52.640 --> 0:13:56.800 of the year. But they live um apart from one another, 0:13:56.840 --> 0:14:00.280 males and females. They only come together to mate and 0:14:00.280 --> 0:14:03.360 then they say, Okay, this has been really great. I'll 0:14:03.360 --> 0:14:06.200 see you next year. Yeah, I'll see a camp next year. 0:14:06.320 --> 0:14:09.440 It's very interesting. As far as the rest of their body, Um, 0:14:09.480 --> 0:14:12.920 they're mostly dark brown. Although I don't want to give 0:14:12.960 --> 0:14:15.120 it away, but they can change color depending on what 0:14:15.120 --> 0:14:18.440 they're doing, which is kind of interesting. Uh. And you know, 0:14:18.520 --> 0:14:20.880 this is one of the situations where they it's a 0:14:20.960 --> 0:14:24.520 kind of a big, clunky creature on land, but once 0:14:24.520 --> 0:14:27.520 you get them in the water, then they're just so graceful, 0:14:27.600 --> 0:14:30.280 which is a really lovely thing to see. Yeah, and 0:14:30.320 --> 0:14:32.800 when they walk on land, so they turn their flippers out. 0:14:32.800 --> 0:14:35.560 Their front flippers they have two pair, right, so they 0:14:35.560 --> 0:14:38.080 turn the front flippers out to their side and just 0:14:38.200 --> 0:14:40.720 kind of use that for side to side stability. And 0:14:40.760 --> 0:14:43.560 they put their back flippers underneath their pelvis and they 0:14:43.680 --> 0:14:46.440 use that to kind of propel themselves forward. It's it's 0:14:46.560 --> 0:14:49.520 very cute. Yeah. And because they're ance, they're flippers um 0:14:49.840 --> 0:14:55.400 are have like rough bottoms like a shoe sole almost. Uh. 0:14:55.440 --> 0:14:57.640 And then in the water, it's kind of a reverse 0:14:57.760 --> 0:15:01.400 boat thing. They don't steer from the rear. They use 0:15:01.440 --> 0:15:05.480 those front flippers for steering and obviously power themselves with 0:15:05.560 --> 0:15:09.520 those super strong alternating backflippers. It's like one of those 0:15:10.000 --> 0:15:14.680 ships the hides used to scal Oh yeah, remember, yeah, 0:15:14.680 --> 0:15:18.520 that's right. So it's basically the walrus of the riverboats. Yeah, 0:15:18.520 --> 0:15:20.920 and these guys can swim. They says they average about 0:15:20.920 --> 0:15:22.680 four and a half miles an hour. I think that's 0:15:22.680 --> 0:15:25.240 just when they're kind of cruising, but they can swim 0:15:25.280 --> 0:15:30.440 as fast as twenty tour if I guess they're fleeing something. 0:15:30.440 --> 0:15:33.600 Even though they don't really have many predators, No, they don't. 0:15:33.600 --> 0:15:38.200 They basically have two, don't they? Well, including humans, they 0:15:38.200 --> 0:15:42.760 have three, don't they? Okay, what are they? Oh? Okay, Well, 0:15:42.840 --> 0:15:45.600 if you want to talk predators, they have polar bears, 0:15:45.600 --> 0:15:51.680 as you said earlier, killer whales, and then humans. But 0:15:51.760 --> 0:15:54.000 that's one of the reasons why they've been so successful. 0:15:54.000 --> 0:15:56.760 And we'll talk about that, how successful and whether or 0:15:56.760 --> 0:16:01.400 not they're thriving or stabler whatever spoiler they are right 0:16:01.440 --> 0:16:16.000 after this. Huh, All right, Chuck, we're back. That's right. 0:16:16.640 --> 0:16:20.080 And if you've ever have you ever seen did you 0:16:20.120 --> 0:16:22.080 notice in any of the videos that a walrus up 0:16:22.120 --> 0:16:25.120 close with like in their face what do you mean? 0:16:25.760 --> 0:16:29.360 So their eyes in particular, they have like pug eyes, 0:16:29.600 --> 0:16:31.520 you know, Pug's eyes look like they're about to pop 0:16:31.520 --> 0:16:34.640 at any minute. Yeah, they always looked a little surprised. Yeah. 0:16:35.040 --> 0:16:36.400 I didn't know this because there was a camera on 0:16:36.480 --> 0:16:38.800 them all of a sudden. It could have been I 0:16:38.880 --> 0:16:42.240 was looking up walrus intelligence because you know, there's a 0:16:42.280 --> 0:16:47.040 lot of videos about walrus is where they're they're saying, like, 0:16:47.160 --> 0:16:50.360 you know, whistle or speak or whatever. Because as we'll see, 0:16:50.360 --> 0:16:52.680 walruses can make a lot of cool noises, and the 0:16:52.720 --> 0:16:55.480 walruses do the different things. So they're obviously trainable, which 0:16:55.520 --> 0:16:57.760 means that there's some level of intelligence. But I couldn't 0:16:57.760 --> 0:17:00.520 find anything about like, oh yeah, these guys are as 0:17:00.560 --> 0:17:03.840 intelligent as an octopus or a pig or something. Couldn't 0:17:03.840 --> 0:17:06.919 find anything like that, but they are trainable. Has anyone 0:17:06.960 --> 0:17:10.560 who's seen the screen classic fifty first Dates can tell you? 0:17:11.119 --> 0:17:14.240 I don't think I saw that. That's a good one. Actually, yeah, yeah, 0:17:14.560 --> 0:17:18.240 Sandler and Drew Barryman. Right, where does the walrus fin in? 0:17:19.280 --> 0:17:25.120 He is like a marine biologists specializes that. I think 0:17:25.119 --> 0:17:27.840 in Walrus is or something like that, because he's got 0:17:27.920 --> 0:17:30.960 penguin friends too. But anyway, there's a trained walrus that 0:17:31.000 --> 0:17:33.720 factors into it. I have to check that out. It's 0:17:33.720 --> 0:17:36.880 actually a pretty cute movie. Hey you got me at 0:17:36.960 --> 0:17:41.320 at Adam Sandler and Walrus. Okay, uh so these guys 0:17:41.359 --> 0:17:45.000 and ladies are, like you said, all over the Arctic. Um, 0:17:45.320 --> 0:17:50.000 if we're talking Pacific, we're talking to bearing. See the Chukchi, 0:17:50.920 --> 0:17:53.600 which shout out to my friend Max Goldman. I just 0:17:53.640 --> 0:17:56.240 saw on Facebook this morning. He had a great picture 0:17:56.280 --> 0:18:00.520 of himself staring out at the icy Chucky. See, well, 0:18:00.720 --> 0:18:03.760 my only Alaskan friend. It sounds really cool. Yeah, it 0:18:03.840 --> 0:18:07.200 was really gorgeous. And I said something about, hey, I 0:18:07.240 --> 0:18:09.480 was just reading about this, and of course he's on 0:18:09.520 --> 0:18:11.800 Alaska time, so you probably woken up yet. He's like, 0:18:11.840 --> 0:18:14.880 I can see Russia from my house. He might. Uh. 0:18:14.880 --> 0:18:18.119 And then the laptop see in the Pacific uh. And 0:18:18.160 --> 0:18:20.919 then along the coast of Canada on the Atlantic side 0:18:21.280 --> 0:18:25.479 in Greenland is where you're gonna find the other guys. 0:18:25.600 --> 0:18:29.879 And we're talking two hundred and fifty total walrus is 0:18:30.000 --> 0:18:34.800 about two hundred thousand, of which are Pacific. Yeah, yeah, 0:18:35.040 --> 0:18:38.720 two total, which doesn't sound like a lot. But again, 0:18:38.840 --> 0:18:41.480 we'll get to it later. But but they're doing okay, Yeah, 0:18:41.480 --> 0:18:43.640 they really seem to be, don't they. Yeah, we don't 0:18:43.640 --> 0:18:46.679 want people to worry too much about the walrus. So 0:18:46.680 --> 0:18:50.120 so back to the walrus. Is pug eyes, right, they 0:18:50.920 --> 0:18:54.520 um kind of protrude and you'd think, wow, that walters 0:18:54.640 --> 0:18:57.000 can see all over the place. It's doing a three 0:18:57.040 --> 0:19:00.280 sixty with its eye right now. Um, not necessary. Early. 0:19:00.320 --> 0:19:04.080 They're actually not the best at seeing, but they don't 0:19:04.119 --> 0:19:06.960 need to be because there are other organs are more 0:19:07.000 --> 0:19:09.280 evolved to kind of make up for it. They they 0:19:10.240 --> 0:19:15.320 hunt and can smell out predators using their nose. I 0:19:15.359 --> 0:19:18.640 think it is probably their primary sense from what I understand. Yeah, 0:19:18.680 --> 0:19:20.800 in their ears they can hear. They have these two 0:19:20.800 --> 0:19:24.600 little uh kind of flap ears basically openings with a 0:19:24.600 --> 0:19:29.600 little protective flap, and uh, they can hear things like 0:19:30.280 --> 0:19:33.159 perhaps pray up to a mile away. Yes, I was 0:19:33.240 --> 0:19:36.840 looking for that. Did you Did you see that anywhere else? No, 0:19:37.440 --> 0:19:39.320 it was one of those ones that raised a red 0:19:39.320 --> 0:19:42.120 flag because I looked all over it was like seeing 0:19:42.400 --> 0:19:44.560 just that that. Yeah, they can hear for up two 0:19:44.560 --> 0:19:47.960 mile away. The closest thing I saw that proved that 0:19:48.160 --> 0:19:53.679 was demonstrations by um Arctic natives who would make like 0:19:53.720 --> 0:19:57.120 a walrus call, and like a walrus like a mile 0:19:57.200 --> 0:20:00.320 away would respond to it. They said hey wa us 0:20:01.040 --> 0:20:05.040 and the war was looked around. Said you're talking to me, yes, sir. 0:20:06.640 --> 0:20:10.639 How they talk Yeah, like Southern gentlemen. They have that 0:20:10.800 --> 0:20:14.439 high cotton accent. I don't even know what that means. 0:20:15.240 --> 0:20:17.959 That's a Southern thing, like, um, well, there's a bar 0:20:18.040 --> 0:20:20.800 in Charleston called High Cotton, so I was thinking of. Yeah. 0:20:21.720 --> 0:20:25.280 So their noses, though, is where that's their money maker. Um, 0:20:25.320 --> 0:20:28.560 they have it's very sensitive. Um. Like you said, they 0:20:28.640 --> 0:20:31.840 used to think that they use their tusks or I 0:20:31.840 --> 0:20:32.960 don't know if you said it, but they used to 0:20:33.000 --> 0:20:36.120 think they these are tusks to grind into the sea 0:20:36.160 --> 0:20:39.280 floor dig things up. But that is not the case. 0:20:39.320 --> 0:20:42.800 They are blowing out of their nose to clear away 0:20:42.840 --> 0:20:46.800 stuff and stir up things to eat. And those whiskers 0:20:46.800 --> 0:20:49.560 those uh what do you say called those vieber say 0:20:49.640 --> 0:20:53.960 viber say, four hundred and seven hundred of those in 0:20:54.520 --> 0:20:57.199 fifteen rows. Not only do they look cute and like 0:20:57.240 --> 0:21:02.320 a big walrus mustache, but are super sensitive. Yeah, so 0:21:02.400 --> 0:21:05.359 that's like their cactile sense. Then these little whiskers, the 0:21:05.440 --> 0:21:09.320 sensitive whiskers, and they use those. So they shoot water 0:21:09.480 --> 0:21:12.720 out of their nose into the bottom of the sea 0:21:13.520 --> 0:21:16.040 and it stirs up some stuff. The clams are like 0:21:16.040 --> 0:21:18.639 stop stop, and they start to float up, and the 0:21:18.680 --> 0:21:22.840 walrus is since the clams with their their whiskers their 0:21:22.920 --> 0:21:26.400 vibers say, or whatever you call them, and then things 0:21:26.440 --> 0:21:29.600 get even weirder, right because remember they don't use their 0:21:29.640 --> 0:21:33.800 tusks to open the clams. They don't use their tusks 0:21:33.800 --> 0:21:36.400 to burrow. Their tusks actually appear to kind of get 0:21:36.400 --> 0:21:39.760 in the way if anything as far as feeding is concerned, 0:21:39.840 --> 0:21:42.600 what they do is they they are they have a 0:21:42.680 --> 0:21:46.600 very high cavity in their mouth and they can pump 0:21:46.640 --> 0:21:49.120 their tongue back and forth like a piston. So they 0:21:49.160 --> 0:21:53.240 actually produce of a form of suction so strong it 0:21:53.280 --> 0:21:57.480 sucks a clam right out of the shell. The clam 0:21:57.600 --> 0:22:01.120 as as they can't say anything, that poor clam, they're 0:22:01.160 --> 0:22:04.280 just hanging out down there. Before you know it, they 0:22:04.320 --> 0:22:09.440 get snotted, snotted on and sucked out, and a lot 0:22:09.520 --> 0:22:13.160 of them too. It's a very undignified ending for the clam. Yeah, 0:22:13.160 --> 0:22:14.679 it says in here, and I didn't find back up 0:22:14.720 --> 0:22:16.840 for this, but I believe it is that that suction 0:22:16.960 --> 0:22:18.600 is so powerful. They've been known to suck holes in 0:22:18.640 --> 0:22:21.360 plywood and I saw that. Yeah, I saw that elsewhere too, 0:22:21.400 --> 0:22:24.320 that they they've had like five pound plugs in some 0:22:24.400 --> 0:22:28.040 of their aquatic um like habitats. They've sucked out of 0:22:28.080 --> 0:22:33.720 the flower that's crazy, also known as the floor the flower. Yeah, yeah, 0:22:33.760 --> 0:22:36.880 so they do have things your hot cotton exit out 0:22:36.880 --> 0:22:40.680 of the floor. So they do have like that, some 0:22:40.760 --> 0:22:43.920 amazing suction going on, and they don't even chew. They 0:22:43.920 --> 0:22:46.560 have these amazing like three ft teeth. They don't even 0:22:46.640 --> 0:22:49.840 chew with any of them. They just eat a clam hole. 0:22:50.720 --> 0:22:52.640 And I think, did you say three thousand to six 0:22:52.680 --> 0:22:55.160 thousand of them? Indicating no, I said a whole lot, 0:22:55.760 --> 0:22:58.200 that's a lot. Yeah. They said that they can eat 0:22:58.320 --> 0:23:02.080 um between four and six percent of their body weight 0:23:02.160 --> 0:23:05.480 each day. So let's just say an average three thousand 0:23:05.480 --> 0:23:09.919 pound walrus eating about five that's a hundred and fifty 0:23:09.920 --> 0:23:13.040 pounds a day of not just clams um. They're not 0:23:13.080 --> 0:23:18.520 super picky anything down there, seaworms, snails, crabs, uh, they'll 0:23:18.560 --> 0:23:20.800 eat all that stuff. But I get the feeling that 0:23:20.880 --> 0:23:23.119 they really love those clams. Yeah, they like the claims 0:23:23.119 --> 0:23:25.040 of the moment, as they should. But think about that. 0:23:25.119 --> 0:23:28.520 If there's two hundred and fifty thousand walruses in the world, 0:23:28.880 --> 0:23:32.040 all basically up in the Arctic, and each one is 0:23:32.080 --> 0:23:35.600 eating something like three thousand to six thousand claims a day, 0:23:35.680 --> 0:23:38.960 how have clams not taken over the world by now? Yeah, 0:23:39.200 --> 0:23:45.080 it's crazy. It's um that. You know. The comedian Nate Bargatti, Yes, 0:23:45.640 --> 0:23:47.760 he has that funny joke about a million sharks a 0:23:47.840 --> 0:23:50.199 year killed and he was just like, I didn't know 0:23:50.280 --> 0:23:52.639