It is inadvisable to mess with Mother Nature. It is something we humans have known for quite a while. Some researchers from the Russian Geographical Society learned a new lesson during their expedition in the Arctic Ocean: don’t mess with a mother walrus either, or you’ll face undesirable consequences.
The scientists were aboard a Russian Navy tugboat known as the Altai on an expedition to the Franz Josef Land archipelago in the Arctic Ocean this week right before the unusual human-animal interaction occurred. They boarded a small rubber landing craft and were en route to the shore to study its flora and fauna when a female walrus attacked, sinking the vessel.
"During the landing at Cape Heller, a group of researchers had to flee from a female walrus, which, protecting its cubs, attacked an expedition boat," the Russian Military's Northern Fleet said in a press release.
More details on CBS News.
Scary!
(Image Credit: Joel Garlich-Miller, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service/ Wikimedia Commons)
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NEVER f### with any mother animal! The most dangerous creature in the Universe is a mother protecting her offspring.
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