Exactly.
“because unusually warm temperatures mean the sheets of ice the animals inhabit are melting and drifting into the Bering Sea.”
What is a ruminant who eats vegetation going to do on a sheet of ice for food? I can understand a seal or walrus or polar bear stopping by, but a hairy cow won’t inhabit ice.
I agree. One of these animals on chunk ice is nothing more than an anomaly or bad luck for the animal being in the wrong place at the wrong time.