How many baby Harp seals are in a litter?
A Harp seal (Phoca groenlandica) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 243 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 10 kg (22.05 lbs) and measure 6.9 cm (0′ 3″). They are a member of the Phocidae family (genus: Phoca). An adult Harp seal grows up to a size of 1.73 meter (5′ 9″).
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:
- Hawaiian monk seal with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Ribbon seal with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Caspian seal with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Mediterranean monk seal with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Ross seal becoming 21 years old
- Caribbean monk seal with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Baikal seal with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Bearded seal with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Hooded seal with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Ribbon 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:
- Sinaloan mastiff bat
- Indian hare
- Caspian seal
- Black-tailed hutia
- Hoolock gibbon
- Rüppell’s pipistrelle
- Lowland mosaic-tailed rat
- Sulawesi rousette
- Tickell’s bat
- Wedge-capped capuchin
Animals that get as old as a Harp seal
Other animals that usually reach the age of 42 years:
- Little brown bat with 34 years
- Agile gibbon with 44 years
- Sloth bear with 40 years
- Diana monkey with 37.25 years
- Caspian seal with 50 years
- Bonobo with 48 years
- Brown bear with 50 years
- Anoa with 36 years
- Hooded seal with 35 years
- Black crested gibbon with 44.08 years
Animals with the same weight as a Harp seal
What other animals weight around 132 kg (291.01 lbs)?
- Siberian ibex usually reaching 130 kgs (286.6 lbs)
- Pacific white-sided dolphin usually reaching 109.85 kgs (242.18 lbs)
- Dusky dolphin usually reaching 127.25 kgs (280.54 lbs)
- Giant panda usually reaching 118 kgs (260.15 lbs)
- Bornean bearded pig usually reaching 135.4 kgs (298.51 lbs)
- Peale’s dolphin usually reaching 120 kgs (264.55 lbs)
- Schomburgk’s deer usually reaching 107.63 kgs (237.28 lbs)
- Western gorilla usually reaching 113.29 kgs (249.76 lbs)
- Spectacled bear usually reaching 123.09 kgs (271.37 lbs)
- Reindeer usually reaching 108.73 kgs (239.71 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Harp seal
Also reaching around 1.73 meter (5′ 9″) in size do these animals:
- Tiger gets as big as 1.83 meter (6′ 0″)
- Guanaco gets as big as 1.47 meter (4′ 11″)
- Grant’s gazelle gets as big as 1.53 meter (5′ 1″)
- Eld’s deer gets as big as 1.65 meter (5′ 5″)
- Scimitar oryx gets as big as 1.91 meter (6′ 4″)
- Javan rusa gets as big as 1.63 meter (5′ 5″)
- Hartebeest gets as big as 1.98 meter (6′ 6″)
- Pygmy hippopotamus gets as big as 1.6 meter (5′ 3″)
- Takin gets as big as 1.74 meter (5′ 9″)
- Marsh deer gets as big as 1.72 meter (5′ 8″)