Brooklyn welcomes 234-pound baby walrus
A 234-pound baby walrus has found a new home right in Brooklyn. The New York Aquarium will nurse the 15-week-old walrus named Mitik back to health after he was rescued off the coast of Alaska in July.
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Oct 10, 2012, 6:47 PM
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A 234-pound baby walrus has found a new home right in Brooklyn.
The New York Aquarium will nurse the 15-week-old walrus named Mitik back to health after he was rescued off the coast of Alaska in July.
The Coney Island aquarium is one of just a handful of U.S. institutions that has walruses. He'll spend the first month in quarantine and will join the exhibit this spring.
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