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As long as a pup is within twelve feet of him, he will fight on the instant if the baby is in danger. Once it is in the nursery the bull seal forgets the little one's existence. He couldn't leave, anyway. Some other sea-catch would seize the harem." "You mean that the old seal can't get away at all?" "Not at all," was the reply.
But the cow managed to make her way past, the old bull being engrossed in watching a neighboring sea-catch whom he suspected of designs upon his home.
The beachmasters whose harems are on either side of this road watch them. They keep their lookout from a station right beside the road. If one of the holluschickie touches a cow on either side of this clear road-space, he will be attacked savagely." "But I should think he could get away easily enough," Colin objected, "because the sea-catch can't leave his harem." "Can't!
He pointed to the back of the rookery, and Colin saw a sea-catch of good size, though not as large as the bull whose savage attack on the cow had excited Colin's resentment, come plunging down through the rookery with the clumsy lope of the excited seal.
The more a place is jammed, the more anxious they are to get there. Newcomers won't go to empty harems. Unhappy with only one or two other cows. Try and find room in a crowded bunch where one sea-catch is looking after thirty females." "But," said Colin, looking at the group which was nearest to him, "there are a lot of little baby seals in there! They'll get trodden on!" "They are trodden on.
As the sea-catch weighed over four hundred pounds and the cow not more than eighty the poor creature was flung down most cruelly. "The brute!" cried Colin. But for some reason the cow was dissatisfied with her new master and tried to escape.
"About how long does it take them to learn?" Colin asked. "Don't begin until they are three weeks old," was the reply. "Practise several hours a day. Swim well in about a month." "Why don't the father or the mother seals teach them?" queried the boy. "A sea-catch doesn't see anything outside the harem.
"Just how?" asked Colin curiously. "In the first place, the sexes of the hair or common seal are the same size, not like the fur seal, where the sea-catch is four or five times bigger than the female. Then they don't breed in harems and the male hair seal does not stay on shore. A fur seal swims with his fore flippers, a true seal with his hind flippers.
"He'll be ready for another fight to-morrow." "But how about the poor cow? She looks about dead now," said Colin. "Not as bad as it looks! She's all right," his friend replied. "Those wounds don't go down into vital parts. They usually just reach the blubber. There isn't a sea-catch on the rookery that hasn't had from ten to twenty fights already this year.
From the time a sea-catch hauls up in May and preempts the spot he has chosen for his harem he doesn't leave that spot eight to sixteen feet square until late in August. Stays right there. He's active enough in some ways. No matter how much he flounders around, he keeps right on his own harem ground. He could hardly get away from it if he tried."
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