. California fish and game. Fisheries -- California; Game and game-birds -- California; Fishes -- California; Animal Population Groups; Pêches; Gibier; Poissons. 6 CALIFORNIA FISH AND GAME. Island, I saw a lialf-drownecl pup, squalling and splashing a hundred feet from the beach. Several cows swam up to it, touched its nose and then, evidently finding it not their own, went on their respective ways and left it. Evidently its own mother was beyond the sound of its call, as its cries went unheeded until it drowned. Each species has several distinctive calls but none of them seems to convey much
. California fish and game. Fisheries -- California; Game and game-birds -- California; Fishes -- California; Animal Population Groups; Pêches; Gibier; Poissons. 6 CALIFORNIA FISH AND GAME. Island, I saw a lialf-drownecl pup, squalling and splashing a hundred feet from the beach. Several cows swam up to it, touched its nose and then, evidently finding it not their own, went on their respective ways and left it. Evidently its own mother was beyond the sound of its call, as its cries went unheeded until it drowned. Each species has several distinctive calls but none of them seems to convey much intelligence to other members of the same herd. After stampeding into the water when alarmed by a landing party, the animals swam up and down the rookery, just outside the breakers, roaring or barking, according to the species. There were generally several individuals too sleepy or too lazy to leave with the herd, and these paid no attention whatever to the loud uproar kept up by their fellows in the water. They only departed, in great haste, when Fig. 3. Sea lion pups after a little handling become fairly tame. Gull Island. June 14, 1927. Once, several of us sneaked up on a sleeping bull, the photographer focused his camera, and then with a touch of the foot, the bull was awakened to furious haste. The call of the Steller sea lions consists of a deep, hoarse roar. Both sexes have this, the bull's roar being deeper and louder. The cows "baa" for the pups, and the pups answer with the same sound, about two octaves higher. The California sea lions make a "honking" bark, repeated steadily. They also make a smooth howl that sounds exactlj^ like a hound. The cows and pups call as do the Stellers. Both species snarl and growl when angry or frghtened. "When suddenly awakened from a. sound sleep and finding themseh^es sur-. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - col
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