How many baby Harp seals are in a litter?
A Harp seal (Pagophilus groenlandicus) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 242 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 10.05 kg (22.15 lbs) and measure 2.9 cm (0′ 2″). They are a member of the Phocidae family (genus: Pagophilus). An adult Harp seal grows up to a size of 1.72 meter (5′ 8″).
To have a reference: Humans obviously usually have a litter size of one ;). Their babies are in the womb of their mother for 280 days (40 weeks) and reach an average size of 1.65m (5′ 5″). They weight in at 62 kg (137 lbs), which is obviously highly individual, and reach an average age of 75 years.
The harp seal also known a saddleback seal or Greenland Seal, (Pagophilus groenlandicus) is a species of earless seal, or true seal, native to the northernmost Atlantic Ocean and Arctic Ocean. Originally in the genus Phoca with a number of other species, it was reclassified into the monotypic genus Pagophilus in 1844. In Latin, its scientific name translates to “ice-lover from Greenland,” and its taxonomic synonym, Phoca groenlandica translates to “Greenlandic seal.”
Other animals of the family Phocidae
Harp seal is a member of the Phocidae, as are these animals:
- Harp seal with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Bearded seal with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Caspian seal with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Ross seal becoming 21 years old
- Hooded seal with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Northern elephant seal with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Harbor seal with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Crabeater seal becoming 39 years old
- Ringed seal with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Hawaiian monk seal with 1 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Harp seal
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- African savanna hare
- Woermann’s bat
- Eastern bettong
- Southern needle-clawed bushbaby
- Red slender loris
- White-nosed saki
- Sloggett’s vlei rat
- Voalavoanala
- Pygmy killer whale
- Mashona mole-rat
Animals that get as old as a Harp seal
Other animals that usually reach the age of 42 years:
- Long-finned pilot whale with 45 years
- White rhinoceros with 50 years
- Black capuchin with 44 years
- Black rhinoceros with 47 years
- Crabeater seal with 39 years
- Spotted hyena with 41.08 years
- Walrus with 40 years
- Caspian seal with 50 years
- Bactrian camel with 40 years
- Striped dolphin with 50 years
Animals with the same weight as a Harp seal
What other animals weight around 132.25 kg (291.56 lbs)?
- Topi usually reaching 127.19 kgs (280.41 lbs)
- Striped dolphin usually reaching 142.05 kgs (313.17 lbs)
- Reindeer usually reaching 108.73 kgs (239.71 lbs)
- Southern right whale dolphin usually reaching 116 kgs (255.74 lbs)
- Bornean bearded pig usually reaching 135.4 kgs (298.51 lbs)
- Sumatran serow usually reaching 110.94 kgs (244.58 lbs)
- Western gorilla usually reaching 113.29 kgs (249.76 lbs)
- Dall’s porpoise usually reaching 106.03 kgs (233.76 lbs)
- Marsh deer usually reaching 111.76 kgs (246.39 lbs)
- Rough-toothed dolphin usually reaching 130 kgs (286.6 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Harp seal
Also reaching around 1.72 meter (5′ 8″) in size do these animals:
- Leopard gets as big as 1.38 meter (4′ 7″)
- Dall sheep gets as big as 1.42 meter (4′ 8″)
- Sloth bear gets as big as 1.6 meter (5′ 3″)
- Dama gazelle gets as big as 1.46 meter (4′ 10″)
- Javan rusa gets as big as 1.63 meter (5′ 5″)
- Asian elephant gets as big as 1.92 meter (6′ 4″)
- Sitatunga gets as big as 1.52 meter (5′ 0″)
- Northern fur seal gets as big as 1.74 meter (5′ 9″)
- Alpaca gets as big as 1.72 meter (5′ 8″)
- Hirola gets as big as 1.6 meter (5′ 3″)