“The New York Aquarium is mourning the loss of a Pacific walrus named Ayveq. Ayveq was about 14. He died Sunday after a short illness. The aquarium is awaiting the results of a necropsy done to determine the cause of his death. The director, Jon Forrest Dohlin, says aquarium workers took extraordinary steps to try to save Ayveq and are deeply saddened by the death of their “beloved walrus.”…Ayveq had a calf named Akituusaq who recently turned 1.” [AP/Sun]