Splutter.
He’s ours!
Wallies.
Wally the walrus resumes journey along Ireland’s south west coast (RTÉ)
Meanwhile….
…via Irish Times Letters:
Your article on the walrus currently off the coast of Cork states that after leaving Valentia Island the walrus was “later spotted in Wales before resurfacing when it hauled itself into a boat off Ardmore” .
In fact, the walrus has travelled further. In May this year, he was spotted in Cornwall, Brittany and La Rochelle; in June he was seen in Bilbao and Santander, before spending some time recently in the Isles of Scilly.
You further quote Dr. Emer Rogan, who said: “[It’s] difficult to say whether this animal is a male or a female.”
Photographs from Les Sables-d’Olonne have allowed citizen-scientists to identify the walrus as male.
I should also note that while in Wales he was nicknamed Wally.
Claire O’Toole,
Dublin 24
FIGHT!
stupid question possibly
but how do they know it’s the one and same fella?
could there not be several Wallies out there?
Surely the big question is, ya know, the one that queries Wally’s present location?