Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 237
THE SQUIRREL KEEPS WARM IN HIS LEAFY BED. sun helps, the wall helps, the feathers help, andthe bird gets along pretty comfortably. Naturetakes care of the lower animals. They sufferless from cold, perhaps, than we imagine. YOUNG ELEPHANT-SEALS The large photograph below shows six… … MALE ELEPHANT-SEAL, SHOWING THE CURIOUSTRUNK FORMATION. after all the water, except about six inches, hadbeen drained off, so that the animals might sleepand rest through the darkness. Such seals areso rare, and are so little known in captivity, thatthese are only the second lot ever seen in…
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