"Sea lion" Quotes from Famous Books
... the guard so hard he sent him flying over the high iron fence that surrounded the sea lions' pool and rock cave where they lived. He fell kersplash into the water, astride a papa sea lion as he went swimming round and round his rock home. When the lion felt something alight on his back, he dove to the bottom of the pool in a flash, taking the guard with him. But no human being could stick on the ... — Billy Whiskers' Adventures • Frances Trego Montgomery Read full book for free!
... include the dugong, sea lion, sea otter, seals, turtles, and whales; oil pollution in Philippine Sea and South China Sea; dotted with low coral islands and rugged volcanic islands in the southwestern Pacific Ocean; subject to tropical cyclones (typhoons) in southeast and east Asia from May to ... — The 1991 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency. Read full book for free!
... probable that man, with all his rapacity and all his enginery, will succeed in totally extirpating any salt-water fish, but he has already exterminated at least one marine warm-blooded animal—Steller's sea cow—and the walrus, the sea lion, and other large amphibia, as well as the principal fishing quadrupeds, are in imminent danger of extinction. Steller's sea cow, Rhytina Stelleri, was first seen by Europeans in the year 1741, on Bering's Island. It was a huge amphibious mammal, weighing not less than eight thousand pounds, ... — The Earth as Modified by Human Action • George P. Marsh Read full book for free!
... distinguished from dumb beasts in general, it may properly be called a deaf and dumb animal. The false seal, on the contrary, has as true an ear as e'er was seen. To the counterfeits belong the sea lion, the Mane specimen of the tribe in the Arctic sea, and the sea leopard, which seems to be phocalized in the Antarctic circle. All the varieties of the seal seek concealment in caverns, and their Hides are ... — Punchinello, Vol. 1, No. 26, September 24, 1870 • Various Read full book for free!
... species include the dugong, sea lion, sea otter, seals, turtles, and whales; oil pollution in Philippine Sea and ... — The 2008 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency. Read full book for free! |