Thor the walrus took up residence on Calshot beach following visits to the Netherlands and France.
A walrus found resting on a beach on the south coast of England was an "extremely rare" sight for the UK, a wildlife expert has said.
Nicknamed Thor, the hefty mammal was spotted on Calshot beach in Hampshire on Sunday, before swimming off.World Wide Fund for Nature's Rod Downie said he was likely to make his way back to Arctic waters.in the early hours of Sunday.He added Thor was likely to be an Atlantic walrus and was probably an adolescent "vagrant" swimming south alone, and could have travelled from as far as the Canadian Arctic.
As long as he is able to feed on his usual diet of clams and muscles off the seabed, Mr Downie said there was "no reason" why Thor could not survive in British waters, although would eventually want to return to colder waters.in recent years, he said it would be "difficult" to attribute any pattern to long-term climate change.
"Walruses like colder waters, so it would be counter-intuitive to see more of them here - as Arctic waters warm, they would instinctively go further north to colder waters. "The really important thing is that although it's an amazing thing to see - leave it alone so it can rest before feeding, and not expend more energy."citizen science project to count walruses from satellite images, to monitor the impact of climate change on their population numbers.
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