How many baby Bearded seals are in a litter?
A Bearded seal (Erignathus barbatus) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 281 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 34.52 kg (76.1 lbs) and measure 100 cm (3′ 4″). They are a member of the Phocidae family (genus: Erignathus). An adult Bearded seal grows up to a size of 2.3 meter (7′ 7″).
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 bearded seal (Erignathus barbatus), also called the square flipper seal, is a medium-sized pinniped that is found in and near to the Arctic Ocean. It gets its generic name from two Greek words (eri and gnathos) that refer to its heavy jaw. The other part of its Linnaean name means bearded and refers to its most characteristic feature, the conspicuous and very abundant whiskers. When dry, these whiskers curl very elegantly, giving the bearded seal a “raffish” look.Bearded seals are the largest northern phocid. They have been found to weigh as much as 300 kg with the females being the largest. However, male and female bearded seals are not very dimorphic.The only member of the genus Erignathus, the bearded seal is unique in that it is an intermediate. Bearded seals belong to the family Phocidae which contains two subfamilies: Phocinae and Monachinae. The bearded seal possesses characteristics of both of these subfamilies.Fossils first described in 2002 indicated that, during the Pleistocene epoch, bearded seals ranged as far south as South Carolina.
Other animals of the family Phocidae
Bearded seal is a member of the Phocidae, as are these animals:
- Leopard seal becoming 26 years old
- Ribbon seal with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Ringed seal with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Crabeater seal becoming 39 years old
- Caspian seal with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Hawaiian monk seal with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Ringed seal with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Harp seal with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Ross seal becoming 21 years old
- Harbor seal with 1 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Bearded seal
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Common wombat
- Gemsbok
- Southeastern myotis
- Wedge-capped capuchin
- Tana River red colobus
- Canyon bat
- Bridled nail-tail wallaby
- Sambar deer
- Sundevall’s roundleaf bat
- Short-eared possum
Animals that get as old as a Bearded seal
Other animals that usually reach the age of 31.42 years:
- Daubenton’s bat with 28 years
- Diana monkey with 37.25 years
- Canada lynx with 26.75 years
- Bobcat with 32.33 years
- Tiger with 26.25 years
- Hoffmann’s two-toed sloth with 32.08 years
- Pileated gibbon with 36 years
- Guanaco with 28.25 years
- Anoa with 36 years
- Black-and-white ruffed lemur with 32 years
Animals with the same weight as a Bearded seal
What other animals weight around 280 kg (617.29 lbs)?
- Mediterranean monk seal usually reaching 294.94 kgs (650.23 lbs)
- Roan antelope usually reaching 262.09 kgs (577.81 lbs)
- Muskox usually reaching 312.67 kgs (689.32 lbs)
- Anoa usually reaching 256 kgs (564.38 lbs)
- Hooded seal usually reaching 278.95 kgs (614.98 lbs)
- Tamaraw usually reaching 252.7 kgs (557.11 lbs)
- Kiang usually reaching 280.57 kgs (618.55 lbs)
- Baird’s tapir usually reaching 292.39 kgs (644.61 lbs)
- New Zealand sea lion usually reaching 273.67 kgs (603.34 lbs)
- Dugong usually reaching 295 kgs (650.36 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Bearded seal
Also reaching around 2.3 meter (7′ 7″) in size do these animals:
- Baird’s tapir gets as big as 2.2 meter (7′ 3″)
- Crabeater seal gets as big as 2.28 meter (7′ 6″)
- Weddell seal gets as big as 2.55 meter (8′ 5″)
- Water buffalo gets as big as 2.65 meter (8′ 9″)
- Amazonian manatee gets as big as 2.75 meter (9′ 1″)
- Steller sea lion gets as big as 2.7 meter (8′ 11″)
- Hawaiian monk seal gets as big as 2.24 meter (7′ 5″)
- California sea lion gets as big as 2.02 meter (6′ 8″)
- Brown fur seal gets as big as 1.91 meter (6′ 3″)
- Dall’s porpoise gets as big as 1.97 meter (6′ 6″)