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(Un)fun fact:
A walrus in freedom would likely never eat an already dead fish.
Bonus: imagine getting a burger as a birthday gift, while not being able to eat something else or get any food from a different source than from the person who gifted you the burger.
They're not scavengers. That's a thing with most wild animals. Scavengers are more of an exception in the wild. Eating already dead corpses is a giant health risk if the consuming species is not specialised in it.
Didn't say that they can't be opportunistic. Still this "eating already dead fish" thing is something humans teach those animals and nothing they do in the wild.
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Ohh Nikolai, you beautiful sweet creature! This made me melt - his covering his eyes, in human emotion that’s an overload of happiness. Bless his heart!
I don’t believe that animals don’t think and feel. Helen Keller described life without language as a buzzing nothingness, but animals generally can see/hear. They can process their environment. If you’ve ever had a pet, you know they have individual personalities. I think that requires intelligence.
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This Is Incredible. But I Want To Let The People Know That The Government Does Not Allow Me Around Bodies Of Water Anymore I Am Denied My Right To Fish.
What a tragedy for this animal trapped in a zoo. No choice but to eat what humans give it to eat. No choice to live its own life away from concrete and humans.
Zoo Keeper Bert van Santen gives the 1,200 kg heavy weighting walrus Nikolai a a fishcake, made from frozen fish , 03 October 2006 as a foretaste for World Animals Day, 4 October. (Photo credit should read VINCENT JANNINK/AFP via Getty Images)
It's such a striking image. Do you think such gestures raise meaningful awareness, or do they just serve to ease human guilt over keeping wild animals in enclosures?
That's a strong stance and I respect it. Its one thing to protect endangered animal in managed sanctuary but the idea of confining them for human entertainment is troubling. Have you ever visited a wildlife sanctuary or seen animals in their natural habitat instead?
I prefer to avoid entering untouched parts of nature as much as possible. If I want to enjoy beauty, the places where people usually go are already beautiful enough. There's no need to invade the habitats of other living beings
That's a very thoughtful perspective, one that respects nature by allowing it to remain undisturbed. I'm pretty sure you have favourite spots where you go to enjoy nature without intruding on untouched landscape
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You’re right, walrus in the wild don’t behave this way, but in zoos they often train them to do stuff like this. They even have walrus doing sit-ups. They’re very intelligent animals and use human behavior to say thanks and to get food.
Reminds me to the popular walrus Antje from Hamburg zoo. Short videos of her were shown between two movies in northern German TV for about 20 years in 1980/90s. RIP Antje
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A walrus in freedom would likely never eat an already dead fish.
Bonus: imagine getting a burger as a birthday gift, while not being able to eat something else or get any food from a different source than from the person who gifted you the burger.
Thank you.
But how did you come up with that 🤣🤣😂😂
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Happy Birthday Nikolai🥰
It was blowing happiness bubbles as well.
(I don't speak fluent dolphin, but I know a little. :click click tweet:)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bubble_ring
there there, Mr. tusk 😁
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Wow. Wow.
You have a warped mind; followed.
Also rather sad since he was born in captivity: https://www.walrusnetwork.org/walrus/nikolai
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-408474/Bashful-walrus-believe-eyes.html
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Prince Harry will definitely be pissed getting to see this
This picture may date back to the early 2000’s but that doesn’t mean it isn’t fake.
The fish platter looks too clear, it doesn’t have the same quality as the rest of the picture. The angle is off.
A walrus doesn’t behave this way.
You’re right, walrus in the wild don’t behave this way, but in zoos they often train them to do stuff like this. They even have walrus doing sit-ups. They’re very intelligent animals and use human behavior to say thanks and to get food.
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They don't feed them until they do tricks.