Photograph by Capt. F. E. Kleinschmidt
TOWING HER BABY TO SAFETY
When a mother polar bear scents danger she jumps into the water and her cub holds fast to her tail while she tows it to safety. But when no danger seems to threaten she wants it to “paddle its own canoe,” and boxes its ears or ducks its head under water if it insists on being too lazy to swim for itself.
The wealth of mammal life in the seas along the shores of North America almost equaled that on the land. On the east coast there were many millions of harp and hooded seals and walruses, while the Greenland right and other whales were extremely abundant. On the west coast were millions of fur seals, sea-lions, sea-elephants, and walruses, with an equal abundance of whales and hundreds of thousands of sea otters.
Photograph by Capt. F. K. Kleinschmidt
A SWIMMING POLAR BEAR
A polar bear when swimming does not use his hind legs, a new fact brought out by the motion-picture camera.
Photograph by Roy Chapman Andrews