Assertion: walrus | /r/CapableOf | use their tusks
Facets:
value: to pull themselves
type: PURPOSE
value: to make the hole
type: PURPOSE
value: to break through ice
type: PURPOSE
value: for dominance
type: PURPOSE
value: for fighting rivals
type: PURPOSE
value: to pull itself
type: PURPOSE
value: for fighting
type: PURPOSE
value: like a grappling hook
type: MANNER
value: for display
type: PURPOSE
value: to search the seafloor
type: PURPOSE
value: with the males
type: TRANSITIVE-OBJECT
value: as weapons
type: MANNER
value: to get ashore
type: PURPOSE
value: for a number of reasons
type: CAUSE
value: as a fifth limb
type: MANNER
value: as sled runners
type: MANNER
Source sentences:
text: They use their tusks as sled runners, and rest on them as they go.
text: A walrus uses its tusks as a fifth limb, jabbing them into the ice as it heaves its body up and forward.
text: Then it will use the tusks to make the hole in the ice as large as it needs to.
text: Walrus uses its tusk and injures polar bear, wounded polar bear tries to move towards land but walrus keeps attacking constantly without wasting any single moment and sinks its tusks on the back of polar bear and may even kill the bear.
text: Walruses use their tusks to pull themselves up onto icebergs
text: Walruses can use their tusks to show dominance and to fight.
text: Walruses use their tusks to break through ice, and to assist in climbing out of the water and onto the ice.
text: Walrus use their tusks to break through ice, to assist in climbing out of the water and onto ice, and for dredging the seafloor for food.
text: Walruses use their tusks to crack breathing holes in ice sheets and pull themselves out of the water and along the ice.
text: You might assume walruses use their tusks as weapons, but primarily they use their tusks as tools and for establishing dominance.
text: Walruses use their tusks to break through ice or, like an ice pick, help them climb up from the water.
text: They also use their tusks to defend themselves from predators and, with the males, assert dominance during the mating season.
text: Walruses use their tusks for fighting rivals
text: Walruses use their tusks and whiskers to search the seafloor for shellfish.
text: Walruses use their tusks for a number of reasons.
text: Walruses use their tusks to help pull themselves onto rocks or ice, to move ice to create an opening to dive through, and to fight off predators.
text: The tusks perform many functions including ‘tooth-walking’ which is a habit where walruses use their tusks to raise themselves out of the water.
text: For instance, walrus fights each other using their tusks; they actively defend against potential predators; sometimes they can even injure the polar bears with their tusks.
text: Furthermore, walruses come out of water using their tusks.
text: Walruses use their tusks for fighting rivals
text: When needed, the walruses will use their tusks like a grappling hook to get ashore.
text: They also use their tusks to help haul themselves out of the water.
text: Walruses use their tusks to break through ice, and to assist in climbing out of the water and onto the ice.
text: The walrus uses its tusks to chop breathing holes in ice and to get from water onto floes, jabbing the ice as it hoists up its body.
text: The walrus uses its tusks for fighting, dominance, and display.
text: Finally, it uses its tusks when searching for food on the floor of the ocean; they drag through the sediment and stir out prey.
text: The walrus uses its tusks to fight.
text: A walrus can use its tusks to pull itself out of the water onto the ice, or to break holes in the ice for breathing when it's swimming underneath.
text: It can use the tusks to pierce breathing holes through the ice.
text: Walruses also use the tusks for dragging themselves out of the water on the shore.
text: The Kratt brothers find out that walruses use their whiskers and tusks to find clams hidden under the ocean floor, and that they eat clams by sucking them out of their shells.