Comments on "Carnivorous Walrus and Some Arctic Zoonoses"

• Published in: ARCTIC
• Main Author: Manning, T.H.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: The Arctic Institute of North America 1961
• Subjects: Animal food; Biological sampling; Cannibalism; Ground squirrels; Internal organs; Lemmings; Polar bears; Predation; Seals (Animals); Trichinella; Walruses; Arctic; Prince Charles Island; Prince of Wales Strait; Stefansson; eskimo*; Prince Charles island; walrus*
• Online Access: https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/66713

In this interesting paper (Arctic 13:111-22) F. H. Fay suggests that polar bears and walrus contract trichinosis primarily from the flesh of ringed and bearded seals. I do not necessarily dispute this, but I do suggest that Fay unduly discounts other sources of infection. Bears are omnivorous scaven...