DEATH OF COW CAUSES DEATH OF PUP. 147 



nance. The seal which is killed in the Bering Sea may be with pup, 

 and also has a pup on shore, which make the killing of three seals to 

 one. 



Q. Killing the females, of course, destroys the pup and the female, 

 and makes one less breed!— A. Yes, sir ; when you Alexander McLean, p. 

 kill the female seal you kill the pup with her. 437. 



Q. Do the pups perish with the cows that you Frank Moreau, p. 468. 

 kill 1 ? — A. Certainly. That is, if the cows happen 

 to be with pup. 



I have cut the young seal out of its dead mother and kept it alive for 

 several weeks by feeding it on milk, but it would 

 eventually die. I have known them to live days Wm. Parker, p. 344. 

 without eating anything. I have put pups cut 



out of dead seals to the breast of dead female seals when milk was run- 

 ning out of their teats, but they would not touch it. 



In the forepart of the season the pup is small, but in May and June, 

 when they are taken off the Queen Charlotte and 



Kodiac Islands, the unborn pup is quite large, Edwin P. Porter, p. 347. 

 and we frequently take them out of the mothers 



alive. I have kept some of them alive for six weeks that were cut out 

 of their mothers, by feeding them condensed milk. 



I am confident that if a mother seal was killed while absent from the 

 island her pup would die of starvation in a few 

 days, for the female seal will not suckle any pup B% F ' Scn0Her > P- 89. 

 but her own. 



Q. Do the pups perish with the cows that you Gustave Sundvall, p. 

 kill? — A. The pups always perish with the cows 48L 

 that are killed ; yes, sir. 



Fourth. The female killed, the death of the z. L. Tanner, p. 374. 

 unborn pup follows, entailing a double loss. 



A female when she returns from the feeding grounds will always se 

 lect her own pup from all those on the rookeries, 

 and will give suck to no. other. It is therefore W. B. Taylor, p. 17G. 

 my opinion that if a mother seal is killed the pup 

 will certainly die of starvation. 



That does not take into consideration the unborn pup, or the pup of 

 the mother that dies on the rookery. I have 



taken unborn pups from their mothers and fed Adolph W. Thompson, 

 them on condensed milk, and kept them for quite j>.486. 

 a time. I refer to cases where the mother is about 

 ready to deliver her pup. 



I further think that if a mother were killed her pup would starve to 

 death, for she suckles the pup during the time it 

 remains on the island, and it has no other means Geo. Wardman, p. 178 

 of subsistence. 



