North America seal up to two meters above the body weight one hundred sixty kilograms. It is a gentle, slow, even met with people, it will not turn around before fleeing.
A thousand difficult hardships experienced explorers came to America when Columbus discovered America seal, because it sounds similar with the wolf, so Columbus called it "the sea wolf." Since then seal the fate of America has changed along with it. Not only is the Columbus, all the objectives of the United States as the European conquest of the American continent was first seen a board of animal is this "sea wolves", the American seal at the time, many of the people as a new world is about to a symbol of prosperity.
The same as sea lions, seals, like the American herd. They have to feed on fish for a living. In the long, long time ago. American people are to seal meat as food. Even so, the number of seals has not decreased.
Thousands of seals living in the Bahamas only on Calvary, and the Americas Sea Islands, Mexico and the Florida coast, and so in some places. They fish in the sea when the action is very agile, and its opposite, when they were on the shore is so slow. This alone has become the cause of the weakness of the American seal.
1675, British explorer William Dampier's expedition records have recorded in detail: Some Spaniards take the boats, one armed with sticks, to get closer to seals, they actually did not realize what will happen things, but stay in place firmly.
Even living in Jamaica when the British are also taking advantage of the wave of that kind of hunting, a large American hunting seals.
The following snippet is a record of the early twentieth century, people in northern Canada seal hunt Todd fruit scene.
Every year, seal pups at the time when students will temporarily leave the sea. For the people concerned, this time the seal hunt is the perfect season. People do not catch up with adult seals, but the project has a gun aimed at the white fur, and just-born pups.
However, it is not the purpose of killing seals the Americas to get their fur.
Seal by heating the fat to become oil. And the role of whales is the same as the fat can be used to light illumination.
Popular in Europe, the era of sailing, that seals a group of oil wells and mining as exciting. Both the seal hunt or hunt whales, like an oil well was being pumped out of the people. After the mining of other people living riding heat wave swarm, in fact, is the same reason. However, with oil as an example, resources are not inexhaustible.
Fortunately seals survive the advent of the twentieth century finally hid, but they are waiting for more advanced hunting rifle. It increasingly difficult to see the seals of the Americas. Finally, there is a seal in 1952.
Chuka by the same kind of red seal is also facing extinction. However, recently, as people's awareness of wildlife conservation, Hawaii, also increased the number of seals.
All in all, both to increase the number of animals is also reduced, are dependent on human beings! |
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