This past June, the New York Aquarium in Brooklyn experienced a beautiful thing: the birth of a baby boy walrus, a first for the aquarium and for New York City in general. Now that he's nearly four months old, it seems it's time to name the creature that employees at the zoo have lovingly described as a 256-pound bulldog wearing a wetsuit. Now you can play an important role in the pup's young life by helping choose his name at the Today Show website.
As you can see from this video of the little guy’s first swim, he’s about as agile on land as a one-legged antelope, but takes to the water as gracefully as, well, a walrus. If you have the stomach for it, you might also check out this birth video (the first-ever walrus birth caught on tape). Considering all the things that walruses do slowly, the birth is over ridiculously quickly.
Cast your votes before the October 10 deadline and hope that he ends up with a better name than his dad, Ayveq, which in the Siberian Yupik language means, simply, "walrus." Me, I'm taking the write-in route. Let's go "Oscar!"—Bjorn Carey
Image: Copyright WCS/Julie Larsen Maher
new name KLEE WYCK (the laughing one)
Posted by: chuck | October 02, 2007 at 07:15 PM
Alphonse!
Why? Cos alphonse is cool
Posted by: Nick | October 02, 2007 at 10:59 PM
Gerald
Posted by: DGold | October 02, 2007 at 11:57 PM
Wally
Posted by: Ted P | October 03, 2007 at 02:02 PM
Chumley from the Tennessee Tuxedo cartoon.
Posted by: Mike S | October 03, 2007 at 03:17 PM
Name: Bob Or Joe
Posted by: jamie woodburn | October 03, 2007 at 03:19 PM
OMG, The names they have to choose from are sooo lame. No wonder this poor baby hasn't been named yet.
Posted by: Fish Fuse | October 03, 2007 at 04:08 PM
I say "Jocko", because that was the name of the coolest walrus ever: the one in 50 First Dates. Yes, I watched the movie, it's Adam Sandler, I don't care if it's a romantic comedy.
Posted by: Sinister Walrus | October 03, 2007 at 05:10 PM
Kyle
Posted by: Mike | October 03, 2007 at 05:16 PM
Waldo Prime or cthulhu!
Posted by: Erich | October 03, 2007 at 08:24 PM
Next baby Walrus, you can name Wallim. It's an Angel serving in the 1st heaven. And his nickname can be Wally, though not original.
Posted by: A Key | November 25, 2007 at 05:48 PM