On Thursday, the US Fish and Wildlife Service said that nearly 3 dozen young walruses have been found dead previous week on the beach near Point Lay. The Service said that there seems to be no foul play in their death.

Fish and Wildlife Service spokeswoman Andrea Medeiros said that a researcher with the US Geological Survey has discovered the bodies when he was conducting unrelated walrus study and captured pictures.

He said that the potential disturbance caused to walrus by artificial platforms is likely to outweigh the advantages. Heads and tusks were missing in some walrus.

The investigation of 25 walruses found dead and reported shot at Cape Lisburne nearly 100 miles southwest of Point Lay, has been under supervision of the US Attorney in Alaska.

Previous week, the animals, including 13 adults and 12 calves, were discovered in Cape Lisburne, present on the Chukchi Sea coast near the small northwest Alaskan town of Point Hope.

The FWS and the Alaska District Attorney’s office didn’t make any comment on the incident citing the going on investigation, but according to experts working on marine mammals and their habitats, they could have died due to a varied number of reasons. In Alaska, killing a Pacific walrus is not necessarily illegal.

In a letter to Rick Steiner of Oasis Earth, Haskett said, “We do not think such a measure is needed at this time”. The Fish and Wildlife Service and coastal villages has been working together to decrease the contact with walrus as much as possible, as it could result into a stampede.

“Maybe a hundred or a thousand of these animals had hauled out; and when these animals feel disturbed, they can trample each other in the process of hurriedly moving into the water…it is entirely possible that 25 of them are trampled in a group of a hundred or a thousand”,.