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This one really happened. In September, on a remote beach at Point Lay, Alaska, college student Violet Anniskett was photographing dead walruses for a study when she saw the smallest one was alive, tucked between two carcasses, with fresh bear tracks nearby. 'We walked him all the way to our camp. Somehow, some way, he followed us all the way,' she said. She and USGS scientist Tony Fischbach cared for him for nearly four days. The calf, Annautaq, went to the Alaska SeaLife Center and now lives at SeaWorld Orlando. (A-Z Animals, 3 November; The New York Times, 8 November; USGS.)
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walrusesThe dead ones on the beach. The calf is the story.
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researchersWho it followed. Stays.
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