It is summer in the Beaufort Sea off Alaska’s northern coast where massive ice sheets 4 LIVING WILD
have fractured About 40 walruses are piled together on an ice floe basking in the sun WALRUSES 5
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I t is summer in the Beaufort Sea off Alaska’s northern coast where massive ice sheets have fractured giving way to wide swaths of bone-chilling 29 F 1 7 C water About 40 walruses are piled together on an ice floe basking in the sun One small walrus only a few months old croaks and cries Panic-stricken it has been dragging itself around the edge of the ice peering into the dark sea for nearly an hour Earlier while the walruses had been WALRUSES 7
