History of North American pinnipeds, a monograph of the walruses, sea-lions, sea-bears and seals of North America . FIG. S7.—Eumetopias sti-Ueri. Adult male, females, arid young. 260 EUMETOPIAS STELLERI STELLERs SEA LION. harem. The bulls fight savagely among themselves, and turnoff from the breeding-ground all the- younger and weak males. •The cow sea-lion is not quite half the size of the male, andwill measure from 8 to 9 feet in length, with a weight of fourand five hundred pounds. She has the same general cast ofcountenance and build of the bull, but as she does not sustainany fasting peri
History of North American pinnipeds, a monograph of the walruses, sea-lions, sea-bears and seals of North America . FIG. S7.—Eumetopias sti-Ueri. Adult male, females, arid young. 260 EUMETOPIAS STELLERI STELLERs SEA LION. harem. The bulls fight savagely among themselves, and turnoff from the breeding-ground all the- younger and weak males. •The cow sea-lion is not quite half the size of the male, andwill measure from 8 to 9 feet in length, with a weight of fourand five hundred pounds. She has the same general cast ofcountenance and build of the bull, but as she does not sustainany fasting period of over a week or ten days, she never comesout so grossly fat as the male or l see-catch. u The sea-lion rookery will be found to consist of about tento fifteen cows to the bull. The cow seems at all times to havethe utmost freedom in moving from place to place, and to startwith its young, picked up sometimes by the nape, into thewater, and play together for spells in the surf-wash, a move-ment on the part of the mother never made by the fur-seal,and showing, in this respect, much more attention to its
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