ocr: EARTH ALMANAC Alaska Cliffs Prove Deadly to Walruses They climb. They fall. And they die, Why do walruses-only males-make fatal climbs: at Cape Peirce in Alaska's Togiak National Wildlife Retuge? Biolo- gists. are: searching for answers. In. 1994 walruses ascended a low eroded slope just to the left of this scene. They were, appar- ently seeking shelter from a storm. One, at center, slides backward on the wer grass and falls off the cliff onto dead and dying victims below-some 45 perished. In 1995 about 20 died: last August, 60. Walruses are herd animals, If one OCS up, others are likely to fo ...
