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Lost Walruses of the East

Lost Walruses of the East

On animal culture, different evolutionary paths & inventing a new word for ecological mourning.

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Neil Shea
Dec 17, 2021
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A few weeks ago I discovered that walruses once thrived along the far coasts of the east. Up until the 1700s there were as many of 300,000 of them ranging from northern Maine to Nova Scotia and beyond, filling the air with bellows of lust and rage, churning the green water white with their migrations.

The walruses came up during a conversation with biolo…

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