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"NEW" - because climate change is moving fast, ice melting, they have no choice but to use land - the ice is gone! "Large walrus haulouts along the Alaskan coastline in the northeastern Chukchi Sea are a relatively new phenomenon. In the past, walruses used sea ice offshore in the northern Chukchi Sea as resting platforms in between dives. On the shallow bottom of the Chukchi, the walruses feed on clams, snails and worms during the summer and autumn. The first large haulout along the shoreline near Pt. Lay formed in 2007, coinciding with an unprecedented loss of sea ice across the Chukchi Sea. During 2008 and 2012, remnants of sea ice offshore in the Chukchi Sea were sufficient for walruses to rest on between foraging dives. Haulouts on land formed in northwestern Alaska near Icy Cape and Cape Lisburne in 2009 and near Pt. Lay in 2010, 2011 and 2013. "
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