Wild Kratts
Walrus: Food and Health
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Martin and Chris observe and explain the eating behavior of the walrus.
Martin and Chris are on the ocean floor observing a group of walrus'. They discover that the animals are using their whiskers to forage for clams. Once they find a clam, they suck out the contents in one big slurp!
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Wild Kratts
Walrus: Food and Health
Clip | 54sVideo has Closed Captions
Martin and Chris are on the ocean floor observing a group of walrus'. They discover that the animals are using their whiskers to forage for clams. Once they find a clam, they suck out the contents in one big slurp!
Problems playing video? | Closed Captioning Feedback
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have found something.
Uh, a clam, that's what they're looking for down here, clams.
Walruses eat clams too?
But how do they get past the shell to the yummy part inside?
- I say she'll crush the shell then eat it.
- She'll just swallow the thing whole.
- She'll use her tusks as a can opener.
- [Martin] That's it, walruses suck clams out of their shells with one giant slurp.
(slurping) - Sucking the clams out of there was my next guess.
- [Together] Sure Jimmy.
- Blobby can't find his own clams yet, but he's trying to get a taste from his moms.
Aww too cute.
- This is great, walruses feeding on clams has hardly ever been seen.
I gotta get this on film.
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