146 THE COWS. 



A cow will not suckle any pup but her own. Of this I am convinced, 

 because I have seen cows drive off other pups 



Geo. Wardman, p. 178. when they approached them, and wait until they 

 appeared to recognize their own. 



The mother seal readily distinguishes her own offspring from that of 

 others, nor will she permit the young of any other 

 Danl. Webster, V . 180. sea l to suckle her. 



DEATH OF COW CAUSES DEATH OF PUP. 



Page, 115 of The Case. 



[See also "The Pup's Dependence upon its Mother."] 



Geo. Ball, p. 4S3. Q. Do the pups perish with the cows that you 



kill?— A. Certainly, they do. 



As I have said before, the pups are not able to take care of themselves 



until they are several weeks old, and the cows must go off into the 



water to get food for themselves. It stands to 



William Brennan, p. reason that if the mothers are killed. while away 



from the island, and the pups are left there alone, 



they will surely die; and it is a fact that many mothers are killed in 



Bering Sea. 



Nearly every seal captured causes the death of either an unborn 

 pup, or the death of a young pup by starvation 



Henry Brown, p. 318. QU the islands< 



I am positive that if a mother seal was killed her pup must inevita- 

 bly perish by starvation. As evidence of this fact 

 Chm. Bryant, p. 5. I will state that I have taken stray, motherless 



pups found on the sand beaches and placed them 

 upon the breeding rookeries beside milking females, and in all instancs 

 these pups have finally died of starvation. 



Dan'l ciaussen, p. 412. Q. Do the pups perish with the cows that you 

 kill?— A. Certainly. 



Luther T. Franklin, p. Q. ])o the pups perish with the cows that you 

 426. kill?— A. Naturally they must. 



Edward W. Funcke, p. Q. Do the pups perish with the cows that you 

 428 - kill? — A. Invariably they do; yes, sir. 



The mother does not leave the rookery in search of food until she 

 has dropped her young and become pregnant 

 Jas. Kiernan,p. 451. again, hence when she has been slain, it means 

 the loss of three, as the young pup will unques- 

 tionably die for lack of sustenance. 



Louis Kimmel, p. 174. It is my opinion that if a mother is killed her 

 offspring dies of starvation. 



Q. Do the pups perish with the cows that you kill? — A. Certainly. 



Not alone that, but they generally leave, while 

 Chas. Lutjens, p. 459. they go into the Bering Sea, a pup on shore, which 



also dies, from not being able to get any su>ste- 



