Each is a rumpled portrait of buckteeth and whiskers, deep scars and bloodshot eyes ... a fin-footed kin to seals, sea lions, and sea elephants. “I used myself as bait,” says Paul Nicklen ...

they are covered in scars – and all they really want to do is rest!" And there is another problem... In some areas along the coast, polar bears have found the walrus. Polar bears too have to ...

Most of them carry a vast map of scars on their skin – wounds inflicted by fellow ... There are two subspecies of walrus – the Atlantic and Pacific – which both occupy different areas of the Arctic.