Read the following passage from "Polar Night" by Norah Burke. The story is about a female polar bear who is getting ready for winter. At this point in the story, she has just killed a seal and heard a noise. She hid and this is what happens next:
Presently she saw upright seals coming along the shore. They were rather rare creatures, these, and dangerous for all they were so weak. The places they lived had light and noise, and smelled of good food. The she-bear often drew near the places, attracted by those smells. She hunted these land-seals too, and ate them when she could. They were not like the sea-seals, though. They wore seal fur, and their skins were rubbed with seal blubber, but there was a different taste inside.
Based on this passage, the term "land-seal" probably means:
a. sea lions
b. leopard seals
c. some unknown animals
d. humans
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The correct answer is d. humans. We get this because these creatures have lights and are dangerous. The only creatures to create light that can also be a threat to polar bears are humans. The fact that they are referred to as "seals" in any capacity comes from the fact that the perspective is from a bear who does not understand everything.
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