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Where’s Wally? Iceberg-hopping walrus is now 2,600 miles from home – Livescience.com

Wally was blasted by an air horn and hosed down by lifeboat crews in Wales, and has now reappeared off the coast of Cornwall.

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The Arctic walrus
that likely fell asleep on a drifting iceberg and woke up in Ireland, and then turned up weeks later in Tenby, Wales, has now appeared even farther south, in Cornwall, England.
The walrus (Odobenus rosmarus), known as Wally, is the first of its species to be spotted off the coast of Cornwall, roughly 2,650 miles (4,260 kilometers) from the animal’s home in the Arctic Circle.
Wally appeared off Cornwall in Padstow on April 20, swimming alongside the boat of a group on a sea safari….

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