Tag: Walrus
Thor the walrus ruins the New Year’s celebration
The massive sea mammal forced a British port city to cancel fireworks The arrival of a huge walrus in the British port city of Scarborough on the North Sea has scuppered the New Year’s celebration plans of the local authorities. The huge animal was spotted resting in the harbor area on Friday. The young walrus […]
The war in Ukraine guided Finns’ Google searches in 2022
The effects of the war can also be seen in the trendy search terms ‘petrol price’ and ‘electricity spot price’. Signs that the coronavirus pandemic has moved to the rearview mirror, on the other hand, are searches for various festivals and last-minute travel offers. “Fortunately, there are also happier things on the lists. Some of […]
Walrus diet and other most googled topics in Finland in 2022
The search engine giant Google revealed what Finns wanted to know the most this year.
A Finnish city unveils a famous walrus monument
The monument to the famous walrus of Hamina harbor was unveiled on Thursday evening in the city’s harbor area in Tervasaari, accompanied by cannon shots and accordion music. The nation’s eyes turned to Hamina in mid-July, when a walrus came ashore between the boats. The walrus’s journey, which included a few more beachings, was followed […]
The fate of the Walrus is causing outrage online
The death of a walrus that made headlines in Finland for several days has sparked controversy on social media, which has led to harsh criticism of those responsible for helping the animal. The news of the rare occurrence of a walrus on the shores of southern Finland first surfaced last week, when the animal washed […]
The famous walrus is on display at the National History Museum
The walrus, which was in the news headlines in Finland for several days before its death on Tuesday, is to be presented in the Museum of National History. The walrus ventured onto dry land several times in Southeastern Finland and died while being transported to the wildlife hospital of Korkeasaari Zoo. The meat and bones […]
The attempt to save the walrus fails – experts are looking for the cause of death
A walrus that landed several times in southeast Finland in recent days died while being transported to the Helsinki Korkeasaari Wildlife Hospital, the zoo tweeted late Tuesday evening. According to the zoo, the combination of the animal’s weakened condition and the ordeal associated with its examination and transport was too much for it. The condition […]
Helsinki Zoo is preparing to handle a walrus "bad shape"
The walrus, which has rarely appeared in the waters of southern Finland, is not doing well after wandering 150 meters from the river bank to the backyard in Kotka on Tuesday morning. The plans to transfer the animal to Helsinki’s Korkeasaari Zoo were still in progress on Tuesday evening, but it remained unclear whether the […]
See: Mursu continues to visit Finns in backyards in Kotka
Finland’s most famous walrus, which has recently made headlines after appearing on the south coast, has rolled onto land again – this time to the yard of Kotka’s home. The residents of the home informed the rescue service on Tuesday morning about a walrus that was resting in their backyard along the Nummenjoki, about 150 […]
The walrus destroyed equipment worth more than 10,000 euros, says a Kotka fisherman
A female walrus that got lost in the Baltic Sea has caused a stir after appearing last Thursday in Hamina on the southeast coast of Finland, where it stayed until Saturday. On Sunday, it appeared about 30 km west in Suulisniemi, just south of the port city of Kotka. There it became entangled in the […]
Mursu’s visit causes a stir in the southern Finnish city
The seaside town of Hamina received a very unusual visit from a walrus that crawled onto the beach until it returned to the water under its own power on Friday. The animal, which was watered by rescue workers to prevent dehydration, was found lying between rowing boats on the shore of the Salmenvirta River, a […]
Mors in Höfn in Hornafjörður
Mors made his home yesterday at the pier in Höfn in Hornafjörður. Fréttastofa received nice photos from Lilja Jóhannesdóttir showing the animal lying comfortably on the pier and does not seem to care about the attention that draws curious locals to him. Only one walrus has been seen off the coast of Iceland on average […]
National Round-Up: Danes quickly support the proposal to offer more support to surviving parents of infants
A citizen’s proposal to provide more assistance to parents whose infants are dying has collected 60,000 signatures in just three days, meaning it will be heard by Parliament. Louise Holm Jacobsen and Daniel Hugo Sørensen, whose eight-month-old daughter died in an accident in November, formulated the proposal. High death toll The death rate among infants […]
A reminder of the past
Scandinavian settlements that had been in Greenland from about the 10th century AD suddenly disappeared without traces of registers and continuity sometime after 1420. Falling temperatures in Greenland made agriculture impossible. The natural drop in temperature along with the Norwegian reaction led them to leave the island. Residents responded to the inability to sustain significant […]
