Walruses of the Chukchi Sea north of the Bering Strait need breaks––haulouts––now and then, but global warming has melted the ice floes they once used to rest and give birth.  The result: up to 100,000 walruses including young calves one night crowd into the planet’s largest haulout, startling Russian marine biologist, Maxim Chakilev, who monitors the site every year. Hundreds are crushed in their overcrowded panic. ––SJPH