. Animate creation : popular edition of "Our living world" : a natural history. Zoology; Zoology. THE SEA BEAR. 41' among Seals, and will frequently relinquish their offspring in their haste to escape from their human foes. The natives are in the habit of killing the Sea Lions by poisoned arrows, or by harpoons. As the wounded animal would be sufficiently strong to escape in spite of the har- poons, the native hunters attach the harpoon-line to a post firmly planted in the ground, and are thus enabled to delay the Sea Lion until they can inflict a fatal wound. They are marvellously b
. Animate creation : popular edition of "Our living world" : a natural history. Zoology; Zoology. THE SEA BEAR. 41' among Seals, and will frequently relinquish their offspring in their haste to escape from their human foes. The natives are in the habit of killing the Sea Lions by poisoned arrows, or by harpoons. As the wounded animal would be sufficiently strong to escape in spite of the har- poons, the native hunters attach the harpoon-line to a post firmly planted in the ground, and are thus enabled to delay the Sea Lion until they can inflict a fatal wound. They are marvellously blatant animals, keeping up a continual chorus of vociferations as long as they are on land. The old males are the most noisy of the party, snorting discordantly, and roaring like magnified lions. The females answer by loud bleatings, and the young of both sexes add their voices in a less degree. The united cries of a large herd of Sea Lions are so deafening, that human senses are almost stunned by the clangorous uproar. This species is said to feed upon fish and smaller Seals, being extremely dreaded by the latter animals, and ruling supreme in its own domains. The teeth of the Sea Lion are very singular in their shape and arrangement, the molars being furnished with sharp trenchant points, some of the incisors double-headed, and others long and pointed like canine SEA BEAR, OR URSINE SEAL.—Arcloctphalus ursinta. As the mane-clad neck and shoulders of the preceding animal have earned for it the title of Sea Lion, so the generally ursine aspect of the present species has gained the name of Sea Bear. It is not a very large animal, being hardly eight feet in length. As its limbs are larger and better developed than in the generality of the Seals, it can stand and walk in a more active manner than any of the preceding members of the phocine family. The color of its fur is very pleasing, the long hairs being of a grayish-brown, while the tliick soft wool that lies next to
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