Name: セイウチはなぜヒゲがあるのか？ (Why Do Walruses Have Mustaches?)
Uploaded: 2021-01-14T05:15:55.000Z
Duration: 4 min 29 s
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Hello, and welcome to Weird, gross, and Beautiful, a casual discussion about the animals that I think are weird, gross, beautiful, or all three.

Walruses can be found in the Arctic Circle with all of their friends, or sometimes in Alaska.

Right now, they are supposed to be at the Arctic Circle.

But because of climate change, there is no ice.

And so they have swam down, some 35,000 of them right now are hanging out in Alaska.

But it's not the first time that this has happened.

The extent of the ice is the sixth lowest that it's ever been, ever-- like, in history.

They have groups that they hang out in that range from the tens to thousands.

They are one of the largest flippered marine mammals, in fact.

The males can weigh up to like 3,700 pounds.

Their skin makes up about 20% of that weight.

And the blubber that's underneath the skin is half a foot thick.

I just want to snuggle with them, but you shouldn't do that.

They're very territorial and very dangerous.

They can grow to be about three feet long, and are actually canine teeth that grow like throughout their life.

And they use them for a variety of reasons.

Sometimes they use it to haul themselves out of water because they're so big.

And they also use it to make breathing holes in the ice.

So they can be under water for about 30 minutes.

But since that's not a lot of very long time-- I mean, obviously, compared to us it's very long--

The males can also use their tusks aggressively to maintain their territory or protect their harems.

Harems are groups of the lady walruses that all have sex with one dude.

The walrus harems have a ratio of 1:23, give or take.

But fortunately for the gals, they don't start giving birth until they're about seven or eight years old.

And they'll only give birth every three years because the gestation period is 15 months.

And once they have the babies, the babies need help from their mamas for over two years.

It's not like it matters, because he's got 22 other [BLEEP] to choose from.

When the babies come out, guys, they're huge!

They come out weighing anywhere from 99 to 165 pounds!

I mean, it's to protect themselves from the cold, because they live in the Arctic, usually, when there's ice there.

The walruses have these little like mustache-looking whiskers, right?

And they're so-- they're super cute and I love them.

They're actually very similar to cat whiskers.

They're very sensitive, and so they will use them to find their favorite snacks, specifically like shellfish, at the bottom of the sea floor.

They're going to be like, oink, oink, oink, oink, is how I image they sound on the bottom of the sea floor, although, that's probably very inaccurate.

That walrus in "Alice in Wonderland" was a douche.

Man, these walruses are weird, gross, and beautiful.

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