Report of the Special Agents of the House Committee ... Upon the Condition of the Fur Seal Herd of Alaska and the Conduct of the Public Business on the Pribiloff Islands |
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Page 27 - September they are all familiar, more or less, with the exercise. " "Tenth. That by the middle of September the rookeries are entirely broken up ; confused, straggling bands of females are seen among the bachelors, pups, and small squads of old males, crossing and recrossing the ground in an aimless, listless manner. The season now is over. " " Eleventh. That many of the seals do not leave these grounds of St. Paul and St. George before the end of December, and some remain even as late as the...
Page 27 - The younger males go with the others. Many of the pups still range about the islands, but are not hauled to any great extent on the beaches or the flats. They seem to prefer the rocky shore margin and to lie as high up as they can get on such bluffy rookeries as Tolstoi and the Reef. By the end of this month (November) they are as a rule all gone.
Page 39 - ... are left to propagate the species. It follows that only the old seals are left, while if any of the bachelors are left alive in the autumn they are sure to be killed the next spring. The consequence is the number of seals obtained diminishes every year, and it is certain that the species will in time become extinct.
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| Title | Report of the Special Agents of the House Committee ... Upon the Condition of the Fur Seal Herd of Alaska and the Conduct of the Public Business on the Pribiloff Islands |
| Author | United States. U.S. Congress. House. Committe of expenditures in the Department of Commerce |
| Published | 1913 |
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