Translation 2783

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Pile, H. Paenpocrpauctntc as;t;:aTlt trca:nrv u T{LCnOKCalI.. ;n'o
Mup.ra.
Fig. 14. Ranges of Atlantic and. r'a.cific walruses.
ICey: 1) Bering Sea. 2) USSR. 3) East Siberic).n Sea. 4) L^ptev
Sea. 5) -North 1-'o1e. 6) Barents Sea.. '() Greenland :;ea.
8) Greenland. 9) Baffin Bay. 10) Hudson Bay.
Kara, a.n6i. Laptev See.s they usually begin to form shore rookeries in
A ut;ust.
They leave tliem in mid.--Ûctober when intensive formation of
fast ice be ;in:; on the shore, ai-id move to drift-ice, on wtiich they
spencl some time lon,,,:,^er in the feeding districts.
tne fast ice
forms wide off-shore expanses the walruses raove to d.eeper water.
Data about the distribution of walruses au.rinE late winter
and spring are very sc^nt,y. During that period of trie year they stay
in water of moder,•itc, c et,-tli.
In the L^-iptEv 'Sc!,-i, for i.ri:stance, they
do not trrtvol 1'fi.r. from the places whore they !.'c,rmc.cl vooi:eries in
autumn, antl they usually :;ta,y in the centx.•a.7. ,,^iri; of the sea and in
waters was'ri:in,; the northeostern and northwestern pri.rt:; of tue I!ovoof
K1tol•.liov .f ::J -md, in tiic xe_,io11 of .l3crtnet
si_bir::k 1:.-O.nnds.
^hey have been absit:rved irt 1•1,,.rckr a,tçi. north 44
eltrâ.c t.1ta, and i.otel' nyi
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