. Seal and salmon fisheries and general resources of Alaska. is tougher than the larger kind {Eusnetopias),and is just the creature fur showmen. The teeth of the fur seal are not, as a rule, clean and white, as they are in themouths of most carnivora: they are badly discolored by black, brown, and yel-lowish coatings, especially so with regard to the males. The pups milk teeth arecomplete exponents of the dental formula of adolescence, but are small, brittle,mostly black and brown in color: with their shedding, however, the permanentteeth come out quite clear and glistening white: still, again
. Seal and salmon fisheries and general resources of Alaska. is tougher than the larger kind {Eusnetopias),and is just the creature fur showmen. The teeth of the fur seal are not, as a rule, clean and white, as they are in themouths of most carnivora: they are badly discolored by black, brown, and yel-lowish coatings, especially so with regard to the males. The pups milk teeth arecomplete exponents of the dental formula of adolescence, but are small, brittle,mostly black and brown in color: with their shedding, however, the permanentteeth come out quite clear and glistening white: still, again, in a year or two theyrapidly lose their purity of tint, being discolored as above stated. The sea-lionpups, also, are born with dingy, dusky milk teeth. Init I fmind that when theirpermanent set was grown it usually retained, even into old age. its primitivewliitenoss. This difterence between thes^^ animals is quite marked, which, togetherwith the opposite characters of their blubber, mentioned hereafter, constitute a Plate XVI. Monograph— Yearling. Pup. THE SEA-LION. (Eumetopias Stelleri: males and females.) Life-studies by the author, Pribylov Islands. 1872-76. Old males face. ALASKA INDUSTRIES. 139: With these teeth alone, backed by the enormous muscular power ofa mighty neck and broad shoulders, the sea lion confines its battles toits kind, spurred by terrible energy and heedless and persistent brutecourage. No animals that I have ever seen in combat presented amore savage or more craelly fascinating sight than did a brace of oldsea-lion bulls which met under my eyes near the Garden Cove at Sea lions fighting at Tolstoi.—Here was a sea-lion rookery, theoutskirts of which I had trodden upon for the first time. Tliese oldmales, surrounded by their meek, polygamous families, were impelledtoward each other by tliose latent fires of hate and jealousy whichseemed to burst forth and fairly consume the angry rivals. Openingwith a long, round, vocal pr
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