Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 October 1894 — Young Seals. [ARTICLE]

Young Seals.

Young seals do not know how to swim. They have to become gradually accustomed to the water, either by entering it to paddle about for themselves or by being carried into it in the mother’s jaws. They have great fear of the wave* that break inbo foam, and, as soon as they see one approaching, they take to flight in ' terror, and do not turn around until they have ascend d to a very high place above the s a. At the end of fifty or sixty days they unite in small bands and form a school of natation.