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The Pacific Walrus

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 April 2009

Karl W. Kenyon
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During recent years there have been repeated reports of extravagant exploitation of the walrus by Eskimos and these have been strengthened by aerial observation of many headless carcasses on beaches of the Bering Sea. So in 1958 the United States Fish and Wildlife Service decided upon an inquiry into the Pacific Walrus, and its hunting and utilization by Eskimo in the Bering Sea region.

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Research Article
Information
Oryx , Volume 5 , Issue 6 , November 1960 , pp. 332 - 340
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Copyright © Fauna and Flora International 1960

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