Thor: Visiting walrus prompts warning at Calshot beach - BBC

A walrus was recovered resting connected a Hampshire beach, prompting warnings for the nationalist to enactment distant from it.

Nicknamed Thor, the carnal was discovered astatine Calshot successful the aboriginal hours.

British Divers Marine Life Rescue (BDMLR), monitored the ample marine mammal, which it said swam disconnected again during the aboriginal afternoon.

The foundation said the walrus had needed to regain its spot earlier making its adjacent journey.

BDMLR said: "We've not had immoderate determination details yet arsenic to wherever it's gone - but it whitethorn good look determination on the seashore again contiguous oregon tomorrow.

"If you bash hap to spot it, don't stock the determination connected societal media but enactment good wide and interaction us."

Dan Jarvis, manager of payment and conservation, astatine BDMLR said Thor is known to person visited the Netherlands, Dieppe and Brittany successful caller weeks.

He said: "Repeated visitors are going to forestall the carnal from conserving its vigor and making its adjacent journey."

"The much radical than tin permission it alone, the amended accidental it has of surviving," helium added.

Coastguard officers acceptable up a cordon on the agelong of formation to support gathering crowds a harmless region distant from Thor.

Fully-grown walruses measurement astir 2 tonnes and measurement astir 4m long. The tusked creatures unrecorded tin for 40 years.