A massive walrus was spotted on the west coast of Ireland on Sunday – the first confirmed warning of the creature with glasses in the country, according to a report.
The marine mammal was discovered on the rocks of Valentia Island in Kerry, witnesses said in Independent Ireland.
“It came out of the water on the rocks and made us a bit of a spectacle,” Alan Houlihan told the newspaper.
“At first I thought it was a seal and then we saw the tusks,” said Houlihan, who was with his 5-year-old daughter when they saw the walrus.
Marine biologist Kevin Flannery, the director of a local aquarium, told the dam that Sunday’s discovery “is the first confirmed sighting of a walrus” in Ireland.
“It’s amazing … It’s something unique as far as I’m concerned.”
Flannery theorizes that the walrus inadvertently traveled from the Arctic on an iceberg.
“It’s from the Arctic,” Flannery told the newspaper. “I would say that what happened was that he fell asleep on an iceberg and drifted off and then went too far, to the middle of the Atlantic or somewhere like Greenland. “.