CHAPTEB XIII. 



SEALS AND SEA LIONS 



Tesca, Sea Lion; Toby, Seal; Wilmer, Sea 

 Lion. 



IT was some time before the fact was real- 

 ized that seals and sea lions are extremely 

 intelligent. Few creatures that come out 

 of the water are noted for intelligence, and 

 although seals and sea lions, being mammals, 

 are not popularly considered in the same class 

 as fish, they certainly have helped to strength- 

 en the idea, by their stupid, vacant ex- 

 pressions, that there was nothing particularly 

 interesting about them as far as understand- 

 ing was concerned. 



It has only been within the last few years 

 that I have had the opportunity to study these 

 animals, and to study them under exceptional 

 advantages. For weeks in the winter of 1906 

 I went almost daily to the New York Hippo- 

 drome to see Captain Woodward's seals and 



