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        "description": "<p>September 27, 2010\u2014Thousands of walruses gathered together in a dangerous \"haul out\" on the coast of Alaska earlier this month. Scientists say the walruses came ashore in such large numbers because their normal habitats, Arctic ice floes, are melting.</p>", 
        "is_us_only": "false", 
        "title": "Walruses Swarm Beaches as Ice Melts", 
        "url": "http://video.nationalgeographic.com/video/news/animals-news/us-walrus-haul-vin/", 
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                {
                    "url": "http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/12/071226-walrus-stampede.html", 
                    "name": "Young Walruses Trampled by Stampedes in Warming Arctic (December 26, 2007)"
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                {
                    "url": "http://animals.nationalgeographic.com/animals/mammals/walrus.html", 
                    "name": "Learn More About Walruses"
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        "credit": " 2010 National Geographic; video courtesy Daniel Zatz & USGS", 
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        "transcript": "<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Extreme ice melting led to thousands of walruses making an unusual gathering on a barrier island in Alaska.</p><p class=\"MsoNormal\">Biologists  with the USGS say the situation can be very dangerous because walruses  are easily startled, and can stampede. Some walruses, particularly  calves and juveniles, can get crushed to death by larger walruses moving  about.</p><p class=\"MsoNormal\">This aerial video, recorded for the  United States Geological Survey, was taken from an altitude of 4,000  feet near Point Lay, Alaska. Because aircraft could prompt a stampede,  there\u2019s a no-fly zone: the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service asks aircraft  to maintain a lateral distance of a half mile, and minimum altitude of  15-hundred feet.</p><p class=\"MsoNormal\">Walruses forage on the sea floor and usually use sea ice as a resting platform between feedings.</p><p class=\"MsoNormal\">This  is the first time tens of thousands of walruses have been seen crowded  together here, though similar sightings have been recorded in Russia and  another area of northwestern Alaska in years past.</p><p class=\"MsoNormal\">The WWF says Arctic sea ice is at the third lowest level in recorded history.</p><p class=\"MsoNormal\">USGS  is conducting more research to better understand the effects of the  walrus haul-out and other changes related to climate change, and sea ice  melt.</p>", 
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