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...Blake. It was pure, muscular, sparkling, straight-ahead jazz—Blake shone throughout the night, but here he produced an especially lively, just ahead-of-the-beat, sound interspersed with snapping rolls and cymbal brushes that propelled the frenetic tune along. Kitagawa, with his calm demeanor and walrus mustache, evoked a Mingus-like sprightliness in his bass playing, switching between slow and fast in a messed-up blues solo. Barron himself remained a steadfast leader throughout, grounding the trio with bluesy riffs and rippling over the higher range of notes in a frenzy...
...regions, which explains why Alaska is warming at twice the rate of the rest of the country, and could warm by as much as 13 degrees Fahrenheit in the next 50 years. That will melt sea ice and severely affect already endangered species like the polar bear and the walrus. And warming could ruin the state's valuable fisheries - as sea temperatures warm, the habitat for cold-water fish like salmon and trout could all but disappear in Alaska and the Pacific Northwest...
...Walruses are interesting because the last census on them was done in 1990, when they estimated that there were about 200,000 walrus. But how do you account for walruses? They did it via airplane, by flying over them and literally counting them. You have to make sure you're counting them all but not double-counting. When you don't have an accurate baseline you don't have a good understanding of how the species works and what the threat is. Walrus are an ice-dependent species so there are also climate change concerns. The loss...
...advocate stopping hunting because it's a cultural thing. You have to remember that traditionally, animals have been hunted and used without problem for thousands and thousands of years. Native peoples use walruses for food. They build boats out of their hide. And ivory has been a means of income - a bartering tool - for generations. But then there are the people who will kill an entire walrus just for its ivory tucks, and that is illegal. It's not hunting that's the problem, it's the wastefulness and the indiscriminate nature of hunting. [At the same time], hunters...
...often tried to retain the rights of indigenous people, you see it in Canadian bear hunting laws, you see it with bald eagle feathers here in the States, you see it with walrus and the Marine Mammal Protection Act. But people try to take advantage of that by hiring local people to poach for them. There's the case that I cover in Animal Investigators about the guy who was working with government officials in Brazil, who would illegally hire native Indians to poach the animals. They'd do grocery lists, it would be like, "I need 44 jaguar teeth...