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@bas.ac.uk

Bluesky, we need your help to count walrus! 🦭 Previously on "Walrus from Space", volunteers like you sifted through around 500,000 satellite images to support our conservation research. Now we're asking the you to help us count the walrus in those images 👀 ➡️ geohive.vantor.com/walrus/login

18/3/26, 3:31 pm131 reposts179 likes

Mike Spehn

@mikespehn.bsky.social

18 Mar

TIL the plural form of walrus is not walri. I took 4 years of Latin in H.S. but the word is derived from Dutch.

Wallenstein Appreciator

@marbleliberal.bsky.social

19 Mar

It's Germanic for Hval Ross, the whale horse. The romance languages and early modern English used the Latin, which is from Finnish: morse

Meertext

@meertext.bsky.social

18 Mar

Plural of walrus is walrus or walruses. Shame on me, I wrote walrusses

Meertext

@meertext.bsky.social

18 Mar

For Antarctica I can help you: It´s zero. I wasn`t aware, that you also have projects in Arctica and was a little bit irritated : ) Of course I reskeeted your need for help.

S Zimsen

@kelpmonster.bsky.social

19 Mar

I had to wonder out loud why an Antarctic survey is trying to count walrus … & then my partner had to roll his eyes hard enough to almost sprain them. Partner 🙄 already knows! 🙄most of the cool wildlife info that I do. For some reason.