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Photo Gallery: Walruses
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A sprawl of thousands of Atlantic walruses covers a haul-out site in Alaska's Togiak National Wildlife Refuge. Walruses are highly social animals, frequently congregating in large groups and communicating with loud bellows and snorts.
Photograph by Joel Sartore

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