Ever been so tired you fall asleep somewhere in public ? Or worse , woke up in the ill-timed city having taken a danger catnap on a caravan ? If so , you might have some sympathy for a seahorse that may have kipped its style across the Atlantic and find itself in Ireland .
According to a written report from theIrish Examiner , the out - of - place marine mammal was spotted by local man Alan Houlihan and his 5 - yr - former daughter Muireann who were walk along Glanleam Beach on Kerry island , Ireland . You need n’t be from the area to treasure that walruses are n’t a vulgar sighting here , given they live in the Arctic .
Jennie O’Sullivan , a diary keeper from the Irish intelligence companyRTÉ , twirp that though the sighting is an exceedingly rarified one , it ’s not the first of its sort with the first official walrus sighting in the region dating back to 1897 , while a mathematical function fromBiodiversity Irelandshows 11 data points representing sea horse ( Odobenus rosmarus ) sightings . Exactly how many have found their way to the island is difficult to substantiate as from a aloofness they could easily be put off for seals , which are more uncouth in the coastal waters surround Ireland .
“ Myself and my daughter were out walk on the beach down near the lighthouse , ” said Houlihan to theIrish Examiner . “ He transgress out of the water onto the John Rock and gave us a bit of a show … I recall it was a seal at first and then we picture the tusks . He kind of jumped up on the rocks . He was monumental . He was about the size of a bull or a moo-cow , jolly similar in sizing , he ’s big , grownup . ”
Adult walrus can produce up to 3.5 meter ( 11.8 feet ) and weigh up to 1.5 tons , about that of a humble car .
One possibility as to how the big nautical mammal made the enormous journey to Ireland was put forward by marine biologist Kevin Flannery in an audience with the Irish Examiner . Flannery believe the Arctic animal may have drift off atop an iceberg that broke off and floated beyond the point of no return key , taking its unsuspecting passenger with it . Such an epic migration could suggest why the animal come out to be very exhausted . At metre of writing , there are no prescribed reports that tending can be pass to the walrus , an choice complicated by the fact that wildlife authority in the region are n’t accustomed to transferring and treating nomadic walruses .
Birder and mammal watcher Dave Pullan put forward an substitute theory on Twitter , suggesting that the walrus might be the same individual that of late landed inDenmark . However , a story fromNord Newssays the walrus tell apart there was young , weighing perhaps 300 - 400 kilogram .
Another strange specimen wash ashore in Wales earlier this yr , as the Marine Environmental Monitoring ( MEM ) squad were call up out to investigate a“very large blob ” that washed up on a removed beach . At first it was suspect to be a whale , but further analyses divulge it was in fact a basking shark , not a uncommon sea visitor but one that hardly ever washes up on beaches .
