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  Fact Sheets > Animals > Walrus
The walrus is covered by a thick layer of fat and a tough leathery skin with a thin layer of hair which is light brown on adults and almost fl on young walrus.
The walrus' head is small in comparison with its heavy, clumsy body, and the upper lip is thick and fleshy with a stiff moustache made up of bristles which are important sensory organs.
Walrus spend most of their lives at sea, although they frequently come out of the water, or haul out, onto ice floes or land to rest.
www.fact-sheets.com /science-nature/animals/walrus   (736 words)

  
  Moustache - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Historically, moustaches have been worn by military men and the number of nations, regiments and ranks were equalled only by the number of styles and variations.
Snidely Whiplash, for example, was characterized by his moustache, his cape, and his habit of kidnapping women and then tying them to train tracks, in order to foreclose on their mortgages.
In some cases, the moustaches are so prominently identified with a single individual that it could be identified with them without any further identifying traits, such as in the case of Adolf Hitler or Friedrich Nietzsche.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Moustache   (1389 words)

  
 The Arctic: The Walrus   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
The walrus is a distinctive marine mammal with its tusks.
The walrus has ‘delayed implantation,’ like many other pinnipeds which allows a variety of mating times but the fertilized egg (zygote) waits and implants at the exact time within each female so that the babies are born within a month or so each year.
It is the Atlantic walrus that was the hardest hit by humans because the population centers of the world were in their area (northern Europe) for the longest time.
www.biosbcc.net /ocean/marinesci/04benthon/arcwalrus.htm   (2422 words)

  
 Walrus: Wildlife Notebook Series - Alaska Department of Fish and Game
The mouth of a walrus is narrow, with an unusually high roof, strong thick lips which are not deeply cleft along the side of the face (the gape is extremely limited), and a thick piston-like tongue.
A female walrus was observed literally demolishing a heavy piece of ice to free her calf, which had fallen into a crevasse.
The most favorable period for hunting walrus is during the spring and summer when the animals are passing the villages on their way north.
www.adfg.state.ak.us /pubs/notebook/marine/walrus.php   (1269 words)

  
 Dr Hooman Pet Clinic
Walrus calves are born mostly in late April or early May during the spring migration.
Walrus hunting is conducted from all of the Eskimo villages near which the animals occur.
Pacific walrus calves are born on the northward migration to the Chukchi Sea.
www.drhooman.com /walrus/index.htm   (3513 words)

  
 Moustache - Definition, explanation
Historically, moustaches have been worn by military men and the number of nations, regiments and ranks were equalled only by the number of styles and variations.
An English moustache was formerly used in melodramas, movies and comic books as a shorthand indication of villainny.
Snidely Whiplash, for example, was characterized by his moustache, his cape, and his habit of kidnapping women and then tying them to train tracks, in order to foreclose on their mortgages.
www.calsky.com /lexikon/en/txt/m/mo/moustache.php   (764 words)

  
 [ Empowerment4Women ›› Arts ›› Expression ›› Walrus Nostradamus ]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
But with time, the Walrus haunted me. Though this poem was penned in 1872, the topics the Walrus considered timely certainly seemed to be so, even in 2005.
I believe what the Walrus is really saying is to recognize that we are no longer out of our whacking days and the necessity to reaffirm our connection to the earth if and when we begin to forget that we are as dependant as we have ever been.
Beyond the fact that Walrus and Nostradamus rhyme, have foresight, and sport the same moustache, the Walrus's messages are unmistakable.
www.empowerment4women.org /arts/expression/issue11_walrusnostradamus.php   (659 words)

  
 Walrus, Wildlife Species Information: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
In the United States, the walrus became a federally protected species with the passage of the 1972 Marine Mammal Protection Act.
The monitoring of the walrus population through periodic surveys is one effort the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service undertakes to fulfill its responsibilities under the Act.
The last survey was done in 1990 in cooperation with Soviet biologists, and at this time, the walrus population appears stable, with more than 200,000 individuals.
www.fws.gov /species/species_accounts/bio_walr.html   (811 words)

  
 Eye Weekly - Don't forget your toothbrush - 07.08.04
A close study of its history reveals that the moustache is more than a fashion statement -- it is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma covered in bacon bits.
The volatile combination of gay camp and thick moustaches introduces a degree of sexual ambiguity in screen portrayals of the moustache.
In any case, this research confirms that the moustache is not only instantly hilarious -- it may be the only expression of the zeitgeist that we can ever trust.
www.eye.net /eye/issue/issue_07.08.04/film/mediumcool.html   (926 words)

  
 Walrus
The longest walrus tusk ever recorded was 94cm long, 27cm in diameter and weighed over 5kg.
In water, the hind limbs act as the walrusÕ propellers, while the forelimbs are used as rudders.
Today, numbers in the Bering Sea stand at around 250,000, but the walrus is still considered threatened as it breeds slowly and lives in a fragile habitat sensitive to pollution or overfishing.
www.yptenc.org.uk /docs/factsheets/animal_facts/walrus.html   (634 words)

  
 Archived conservation news articles on Walrus
The radical 'walrus' or 'tusk-like' solution was scrapped for the remaining six grands prix of the season in deference to a more conventional one, he explained...
He grins: a courteous, confident figure with a white walrus moustache and a way of carefully smoothing his hand over his bald head when he is thinking.
The Walrus of Love is unusual, however, in retaining a romantic image throughout his career; for most fat stars, their popularity entails a sort of emasculated...
conservation.mongabay.com /files/Walrus.htm   (12171 words)

  
 WWF - Walrus
Walrus spotted on a tourist cruise around the archipelago of Svalbard, located between the Norwegian mainland and the Northpole.
It has a pair of long, curved tusks and bristly, drooping hair on its upper lip which gave rise to the term 'walrus moustache'.
A fully grown walrus is a strong swimmer with large hind flippers.
www.panda.org /news_facts/education/middle_school/species/species_carnivores/seals/walrus/index.cfm   (288 words)

  
 Viking Answer Lady Webpage - Viking Age Hairstyles, Haircare, and Personal Grooming
He wears a beard groomed to a point or perhaps a goatee, and his moustaches are full and appear to be waxed to an upwards curve at the ends.
The moustache appears to be divided into two sections, one which curls up, the other which lies in the normal area for a moustache.
Either the moustache is truly divided into two portions on each side, with the upper part being waxed and curled upward, or perhaps this represents a moustache and "mutton-chop" side-burns.
www.vikinganswerlady.com /hairstyl.htm   (3794 words)

  
 Archived conservation news articles on Walrus
One of the poems was Lewis Carroll's The Walrus and the Carpenter - later acknowledged by Lennon as being the inspiration for the famously unfathomable Beatles...
Thabet, an intelligence officer from Samarra with a walrus mustache, was expelled from the army in 1984, and jailed at Abu Ghraib for conspiracy against Saddam...
Bolton's alarming, walrus-like moustache may prove to be a double-edged sword in his confirmation hearings, as a former assistant secretary of state...
conservation.mongabay.com /news/Walrus.htm   (12036 words)

  
 YourArt.com >> Encyclopedia >> moustache   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Errol Flynn, American actor, known for his pencil moustache
Friedrich Nietzsche, German philosopher famous for his Walrus moustache
Józef Piłsudski, Polish dictator was known for his bushy moustache.]]
www.yourart.com /research/encyclopedia.cgi?subject=/moustache   (1393 words)

  
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chevron (moustache): an inverted V cookie-duster moustache: a humorous term for a moustache which hangs low over the lips 'dusting' the food intaken.
handlebar moustache: a long moustache with ends turned up at the edges to resemble the handlebars of a bike.
toothbrush (moustache): moustache like adolph hitler or Charlie Chaplin also known as a 'square button' "van Dyke": the typical moustache-rounded beard type, leaving the cheeks and jaw clean shaven.
www.ci-n.com /armageddon/hair.html   (554 words)

  
 www.myspace.com/walrusrock
The WALRUS video for their song ‘Out Here’ was a finalist in Sunscreen, Australia’s largest music video clip competition.
WALRUS has been interviewed on FBi and receives regular airplay on community radio stations all over Australia including new single War!, which has been given medium rotation on Triple J. WALRUS appear in street press regularly, and have received great reviews for their EP and live performances.
WALRUS will be taking their White Stripes/Rolling Stones blues rock up and down the east coast in February 2007.
www.myspace.com /walrusrock   (1168 words)

  
 walrus - OneLook Dictionary Search
WALRUS, Walrus : Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms [home, info]
Phrases that include walrus: walrus mustache, pacific walrus, walrus moustache, frozen walrus carcass, i am the walrus, more...
Words similar to walrus: seahorse, walruses, morse, sea horse, more...
www.onelook.com /?w=walrus&ls=a   (266 words)

  
 Weeping Walrus and Gingerbread, or A Comb Through the Mustache   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
She had a huge nose, a dark moustache, and her dark-dyed hair was combed into absurd bangs over her forehead.” And I thought to myself, despite all this, this woman was loved – no, adored – by Gertrude Stein.
He puts on a soft-soaping smile: it is sad and grey under his nicotine-yellow weeping walrus Victorian moustache worn thick and long in memory of Doctor Crippen.” Mr.
In Australia, we favor the English spelling and pronunciation of “moustache”, though increasingly Australians pronounce it as “mo-stache” in the same way as we pronounce “boutique, bouquet and bougainvillea” as “bo-tique, bo-quet and bo-gainvillea.” And the standard Australian abbreviation here for mo-stache is “mo”.
www.booksourcemonthly.com /recent0503.shtml   (4245 words)

  
 News Hounds: Moustache, Schmoustache
Bolton has repeatedly stressed his experience in the field of international politics and policy, today he made it very clear that he considers his unnerving facial hair his most potent weapon.
Bolton's alarming, walrus-like moustache may prove to be a double-edged sword in his confirmation hearings, as a former assistant secretary of state testified today that Mr.
Elsewhere, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales said that a Wisconsin proposal to hunt feral cats may be unconstitutional, but said that under certain circumstances it may be permissible to detain the cats and torture them.
www.newshounds.us /2005/04/22/moustache_schmoustache.php   (349 words)

  
 Financial Review: The little tramp and the great dictator   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
But it seems more likely that Hitler had a moustache for the same reason Chaplin did: because it made him look older, and that the minimalist, toothbrush version was chosen for simplicity's sake.
Chaplin and Hitler had much more in common than their moustaches, however.
Both men were born in April 1889, within four days of each other; both had difficult childhoods, with violent or alcoholic fathers and ailing mothers; and both men left their native countries to make it big somewhere else.
afr.com /cgi-bin/newtextversions.pl?storyid=1064083120796&date=2003/09/26&pagetype=printer§ion=1053801326001&path=/articles/2003/09/25/1064083120796.html   (1124 words)

  
 The Sculptural Heritage of Tibet - Thangtong Gyalpo
The eccentric appearance that led to the inception of Thangtong Gyalpo's engineering career is evident in this portrait: hair disarranged in a thick pile on top of his head, a wide flat nose, a goatee and a full walrus moustache.
His body is said to have been of a dark brown colour, described in some sources as having the hue of 'wet liver'.
It may be noted that in the New Delhi portrait of Thangtong Gyalpo, he is shown holding a cylindrical vessel and wearing a similar cloak, even wilder hair and sporting a full Bigelow moustache - in place of the walrus moustache with which he is depicted in the Nyingjei Lam portrait.
www.asianart.com /exhibitions/nyingjei/plate46.html   (580 words)

  
 The Scotsman - International - Walesa shaves off his famous moustache
Mr Walesa’s drooping walrus moustache became a symbol of defiance when he refused to shave during the Gdansk shipyard strikes of 1980 which marked the beginning of the end for communist rule.
Mr Walesa, now 58, did crop his greying moustache during his five-year stint as Poland’s president in the early 1990s but, until this week, never went all the way.
But she said it was growing and "will already look natural" in time for a speaking tour to Venezuela starting this weekend.
thescotsman.scotsman.com /international.cfm?id=860792002   (335 words)

  
 The Moustache of John Bolton for US Ambassador | Blue Damage
When was the last time you heard of a moustache snapping out and threatening the UN Secretarial Building with a terrorist attack by "lopping off 10 floors?" Moustaches don't flip out, they are cool and confident at all times due to their awesome nature.
Freestyle moustaches will soon be the 'in' fashion, so, John Bolton's moustache is the obvious choice here.
To recap, John Bolton's moustache is cool, flexible and a mediator.
www.bluedamage.com /2005/04/15/john-boltons-moustache   (679 words)

  
 Zeek: February 02: Politics: Faces of Death   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
He was the only one in the whole Empire who could get the ends of Kaiser Wilhelm's moustache to stick up just the way he liked, so he became the court shaver.
Hitler used to have this great big walrus moustache, and he was very proud of it.
His moustache is a pretty standard job, really not at all ambitious.
www.zeek.net /feature_0202.htm   (890 words)

  
 MSN Encarta - Search Results - Nicotine
Leaves of the tobacco plant are smoked in various ways.
His nicotine eggyellow weeping walrus Victorian moustache worn thick and long in memory of Doctor Crippen.
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 Explanation of the Distinction
In my image, Twain is wearing a white western suit, with bowtie, and sports a walrus moustache.
The property of having a walrus moustache is essential to the content of that particular image---without that property, the content would be the content of some other mental image.
However, the content of the image doesn't exemplify having a walrus moustache; rather Mark Twain himself exemplifies this property.
mally.stanford.edu /distinction.html   (1124 words)

  
 Entry from OED Online - Series One - Oxford English Dictionary
It may have arisen from subsequent use of the cartoon character, depicted in police uniform, on posters in a Metropolitan Police recruitment campaign of 1917, and later during the Second World War (1939-45) giving advice on wartime security.
The name of a cartoon character of the First World War (1914-18), portrayed as an old grumbling Cockney soldier with a walrus moustache.
, a moustache resembling that depicted on the cartoon character.
www.oed.com /bbcwordhunt/old-bill.html   (417 words)

  
 The Borowitz Report .com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Bolton has repeatedly stressed his experience in the field of international politics and policy, today he made it very clear that he considers his unnerving facial hair his most potent weapon.
Bolton’s alarming, walrus-like moustache may prove to be a double-edged sword in his confirmation hearings, as a former assistant secretary of state testified today that Mr.
Elsewhere, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales said that a Wisconsin proposal to hunt feral cats may be unconstitutional, but said that under certain circumstances it may be permissible to detain the cats and torture them.
www.borowitzreport.com /archive_rpt.asp?rec=1110&srch=   (300 words)

  
 World Wide Words: Bill
Old Bill was a Cockney veteran soldier with a walrus moustache, the epitome of the grumbling foot-soldier.
This became a famous catchphrase that was known and used well after the end of the war (I can remember it in London in the late 1940s, but this must have been right at the end of its life).
Eric Partridge has said that it happened because many London policemen wore walrus moustaches in the inter-war years, but the evidence we have doesn’t confirm that.
www.worldwidewords.org /qa/qa-bil1.htm   (373 words)

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