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On June 18, when top executives from BP Oil appeared before Congress to answer questions about their oil spill emergency plan, it was noted that BP had included references to protecting walruses in the Gulf of Mexico. As a wise lawmaker noted however, “walruses have not called the Gulf of Mexico home for three million years”. Oops.
So now as a lesson to BP, here are 13 other little known facts about Odobenus rosmarus, the walrus.