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Walrus: now extinct on Sable
Odobenus
rosmarus
Skulls like
this are occasionally washed out of the sand on West Spit
after a storm.
Walrus bred on
Sable from the end of the Ice Age until the 1600's. They
were hunted for their oil and ivory tusks—400 tusks were
taken in 1642. No walruses have lived on Sable since then.
Hunting likely drove them to extinction on the Island.
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