THE METHODS OF SEAL HUNTERS.
TO THE EDITOR OF TUB MESS. Sir,—ln reference to Mr N. M. Bell's letter in this morning's issue, there is a reference to seals shedding tears in Schmarda's Andeutungen aus dem Seelenleben der Thiere, p. 76. He says: Pain is expressed in the features of animals more frequently than joy; and some even shed tears, fateller and Peron saw a wounded female seal shedding tears copiously when roughly handled, and the female of the elephant seal behaves similarly from the brutalities of the hunters or of her own male partner. The sea-bear (I presume this means the polar bear) does the same when robbed of her cubs. Schmarda quotes Humboldt and other naturalists for instances of the same phenomenon in other species. The cruelties of the fur trade, which includes seal-hunting, are exposed by the London University's Animal Welfare Society.—Yours, etc., H. NORTHCOTE. May 22, 1933.
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Press, Volume LXIX, Issue 20862, 23 May 1933, Page 16
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