A college student found him alive. Now he's thriving.

A five-month-old walrus orphaned on a remote Alaska beach has a permanent home at SeaWorld Orlando, after a rescue that ran on honey water and improvisation. College student Violet Anniskett spotted the calf alive between two adult carcasses on September 11, while surveying the beach with U.S. Geological Survey biologist Tony Fischbach. "I was in shock," she told the New York Times. They named him Annautaq, after Anniskett's father, and secured approval from the Inupiaq community before intervening. Storms grounded any transport for days, so the pair sheltered the 185-pound calf in an abandoned building, fending off gulls and two active polar bears. Lacking formula, they fed him honey mixed with water. He refused to sleep unless someone stayed close. "He just put his snout on my leg, kind of, and he fell asleep," Anniskett said. He weighs about 250 pounds now and recently bopped noses with another rescued walrus through a barrier.