A snooze went awry resulting in a once-in-a-lifetime sighting.
Have you ever fallen asleep on a train or bus and missed your stop completely? You’re not on your own.
A walrus was observed on the western shore of Ireland in March 2021. This is a really unusual sight, but how did it end up there?
The walrus most likely fell asleep on an iceberg in the Arctic and floated all the way to Ireland while it was sleeping, according to experts.
“I’d say what happened is he fell asleep on an iceberg and drifted off and then he was gone too far, out into the mid-Atlantic or somewhere like that down off Greenland possibly,” Kevin Flannery, director of Oceanworld Aquarium in Dingle, Co. Kerry, told the Irish Independent.
“That is usually what happens… they fall asleep on an iceberg and get carried off from the Arctic.”
The animal was first noticed by a man local to the area named Alan Houlihan, along with his 5-year-old daughter, Muireann.
“At first, I assumed it was a seal, but then we noticed the tusks.” He sort of sprang up onto the ledges.”
“He was huge.” He was the size of a bull or a cow, or something close to that, and he’s enormous, gigantic,” Houlihan added.
“He was less than 50 meters away from us, directly beside us.” He went aside for a bit, then came back and returned to the rocks.”
Despite the fact that the animal is completely lovely, Flannery believes it is fatigued and hungry after such a long travel.
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