A walrus named Wally wandered far from his Arctic home, taking an epic European tour. He inspired walrus-themed souvenirs. He balanced a starfish on his nose. He relaxed in a speedboat. Then he needed to go home.
Another walrus—also called Wally—turned up in western Scotland in 2018. Another, a female called Wanda, was spotted along the coast of the Netherlands this year.A gray whale, supposedly extinct in the Atlantic, was found in the Mediterranean this year
Biologists were stumped about what to do with the most-recent Wally, though: a walrus is too big to easily move, and potentially a threat to rescuers if he turned on them. He then swam on to England and then to France and Spain before settling in among the Isles of Scilly, a balmy tourist haven 28 miles from the English coast.Dan Jarvis/British Divers Marine Life Rescue
The discussions, which included staff from the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in Alaska, threw up some unorthodox ideas to get him to move along, including using the scent of polar bears, the walruses main predator. Lizzi Larbalestier, a coordinator with the rescue team, began assembling a pontoon for Wally to haul out and rest on away from the rest of the harbor traffic when she noticed one of the inflatable boats he had been resting on was moored nearby. A thought struck her, she recalls: If Wally had left some traces there then they could use them to make the pontoon smell familiar and make him more likely to use it and stay away from the fishing boats and yachts.
“He puffed himself up and made a noise at me as if to say ‘I’m big,’ and then slipped into the water and headed straight to the pontoon like he had been going there the whole time.”
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