SEA LION.—Otaria jubdta. 
sleep they open their mouths in a threatening manner, but do not seem to think of using 
their teeth, and if they find that their disturbers do not run away, they take that office 
upon themselves, and move off deliberately for the water. As they proceed their huge 
bodies tremble like masses of jelly, in consequence of the fat with which they are so heavily 
laden. So plentiful is this fat, that a single adult male will furnish about seventy gallons 
of clear and scentless oil. 
The extraordinary development of the nose, which gives so weird-like a character to the 
aspect of the Elephant Seal, is only found in the adult males, and even in them is not 
very perceptible unless the animal is alarmed or excited. While the creature is undis- 
turbed, the nose only looks peculiarly large and heavy, as may be seen in the figures that 
occupy the background of the illustration on page 517. As soon, however, as the animal 
becomes excited, it protrudes this proboscis-like nose, blows through it with great violence, 
and assumes a very formidable appearance. The female is entirely destitute of this 
structure, and except for its enormous dimensions, might be mistaken for an ordinary Seal. 
In the male it does not make its appearance until the third year. 
The Elephant Seal is easily tamed when taken young, and displays great affection 
towards a,kind master. One of these animals was tamed by an English seaman, and would 
permit its master to mount upon its back, or to put his hand into its mouth without doing 
him any injury. 
The teeth of this animal are very curious in their formation, especially the molar teeth, 
which are small, and pointed with a kind of mushroom-like apex. The canines are very 
large. The whisker hairs are very coarse and long, and are furnished with a raised margin, 
which gives them the appearance of being twisted like a screw. The food of the Elephant 
Seal is supposed to consist chiefly of cuttle-fish and sea-weed, as the remains of both these 
substances are generally found in the stomachs of those that are killed. 
Harpy less ferocious in aspect than the preceding animal is the SEA Lion, of 
Kamtschatka and the Kurile islands. 
It is of very large size, although not of such gigantic proportions as the sea elephant, 
measuring about fifteen feet in length, and weighing about sixteen hundred pounds. The 
