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Originally Posted by Erick Estrada
It's really unfortunate but can see both sides. If a say child ends up in the wrong place at the wrong time the story probably takes another tragic turn where the walrus is still put down but a human also loses their life. The fact is as stated in the article is that; We all know people do dumb things like try to fee bears and in this instance were trying to swim with a 1300 lb walrus so eventually someone was going to get hurt. If there was a way to transport it back to arctic waters that would be best but I don't know how doable that would have been.
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This seems like the first choice was euthanize.
If the Walrus was aggressively approaching people then I can see the problem but if it’s people aggressively approaching it then euthanizing the people seems more reasonable.
At least with bears it’s address the people problem, close areas affected and let the bear move on, move the bear possibly multiple times and then euthanize. To me this did not meet a reasonable standard of care