Don't wanna watch another long ass video. But if nearby polar bears are not to blame, what or who else may have caused the walruses to panic and jump off the cliff? The weather was stormy the first two years the walruses slid off the cliff, causing biologists to speculate that they might have been disoriented… Netflix released a documentary series called "Our Planet" on April 5 that sits in the pantheon of great wildlife docs alongside BBC's "Planet Earth" and "Blue Planet." Ryan Kingsbery/USGS via AP, File. Is Climate Change Really Causing Walruses to Jump Off Cliffs? The Walruses sense their comrades feeding below and when they try to get down to them… there’s not a lot of kinder ways to put it, they straight up just walk off and hit every rock on the way down. Rafi Letzter, Live Science April 15, 2019. 3 Harry Leferts Solidarity. One by one, they slid to their deaths. A scene from Netflix's 'Our Planet' shows walruses jump off an 80-metre cliff to their deaths. As a scientist who works to protect walruses and other species from the ravages of climate change, I dreaded watching this scene with every bone in my body. In Netflix’s new show “Planet Earth” competitor titled “Our Planet”, there is a scene where a shitload of Walruses just walk off a cliff. David Attenborough and his team have blamed climate change and reduced sea ice, despite the fact that walrus haul-outs have happened at Ryrkapiy long before any significant reduction in sea ice. It's as horrifying as it sounds Walruses have always beached in plenty of places with no sea ice, especially in the summer season. Their only predators are polar bears, killer whales and humans. It shows Pacific walruses, one after another, tumbling off 250-foot-high cliffs to their deaths. It shows Pacific walruses, one after another, tumbling off 250-foot-high cliffs to their deaths. Rather, the events happen as walruses go up shallow slopes on the cliffs' far sides. Under these conditions, walruses are a danger to themselves.” And so they climb “to find space away from the crowds.” As the walruses spread across the beach, some start heading up a … Sophie Lanfear, who produced the episode of Our Planet that featured the mass walrus death, hopes the scene moves viewers to take the effects of climate change seriously Walruses are jumping off cliffs to their deaths — yes, because of climate change Shocking Our Planet footage shows how climate change is causing walruses to plunge to their deaths off cliffs 'they should never have scaled,' as retreating sea ice pushes them further onto shore. As a scientist who works to protect walruses and other species from the ravages of climate change, I dreaded watching this scene with every bone in my body. Walruses Are Jumping Off Cliffs to Their Deaths—Yes, Because of Climate Change. "Giant walruses fall to their deaths off cliffs they never should have been on, you see tusks being broken; imagine the sheer force of all that weight dropping 80m onto … Is there any links and text explanations for why walruses are jumping off cliffs, and why it has nothing to do with changing climate. Walruses Are Jumping Off Cliffs to Their Deaths—Yes, Because of Climate Change. Subscriber. That was before the modern meaning gained traction: That populations tumbled because packs of lemmings would occasionally run head-first off of cliffs… What’s even funnier is the very suggestion that ‘climate change’ would make a herd of walruses climb a cliff and jump off “because of reduced sea ice”. Squashed in together on a tight patch of land, because the sea ice where they would normally rest has melted, walruses head towards a rocky outcrop for some breathing space…