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NOTES ON WALRUSES, Odobenus rosmarus , IN CAPTIVITY

NOTES ON WALRUSES, Odobenus rosmarus , IN CAPTIVITY D U R I N G the past decades several walrus babies have been raised here in Stellingen and some of them have lived for years. The little male who has been at Stellingen for fourteen years was originally imported as a baby in 1949. Like all our earlier young walruses, he too was brought back by Norwegian sealhunters. From their expeditions to the Arctic Ocean they not only returned with young Polar bears but occasionally with young walruses. The sailors usually fed these young animals with strips of seal-blubber, which the little animals sucked. But their physical condition showed that this food was apparently not very suitable at their tender age. After their arrival in Stellingen we quickly got them to take the following food. W e put whole herrings, complete with bones and intestines, through a mincing machine and mixed the mince with an emulsion of cod-liver oil into a semi-liquid mash and added Vitakalk (calcium with vitamins), Vigantol and a few drops of a 10per cent solution of tincture of iodine. This meal was given to them several times a day in a flat, stable, metal dish. As soon as the little animals ate this http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png International Zoo Yearbook Wiley

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© 1963 The Zoological Society of London
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0074-9664
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1748-1090
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10.1111/j.1748-1090.1963.tb03604.x
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D U R I N G the past decades several walrus babies have been raised here in Stellingen and some of them have lived for years. The little male who has been at Stellingen for fourteen years was originally imported as a baby in 1949. Like all our earlier young walruses, he too was brought back by Norwegian sealhunters. From their expeditions to the Arctic Ocean they not only returned with young Polar bears but occasionally with young walruses. The sailors usually fed these young animals with strips of seal-blubber, which the little animals sucked. But their physical condition showed that this food was apparently not very suitable at their tender age. After their arrival in Stellingen we quickly got them to take the following food. W e put whole herrings, complete with bones and intestines, through a mincing machine and mixed the mince with an emulsion of cod-liver oil into a semi-liquid mash and added Vitakalk (calcium with vitamins), Vigantol and a few drops of a 10per cent solution of tincture of iodine. This meal was given to them several times a day in a flat, stable, metal dish. As soon as the little animals ate this

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International Zoo Yearbook – Wiley

Published: Jan 1, 1963

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