It is hard to guess what a Harp seal weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Harp seal (Pagophilus groenlandicus) on average weights 132.25 kg (291.56 lbs).
The Harp seal is from the family Phocidae (genus: Pagophilus). It is usually born with about 10.05 kg (22.15 lbs). They can live for up to 42 years. When reaching adult age, they grow up to 1.72 meter (5′ 8″). Usually, Harp seals have 1 babies per litter.
As a reference: An average human weights in at 62 kg (137 lbs) and reaches an average size of 1.65m (5′ 5″). Humans spend 280 days (40 weeks) in the womb of their mother and reach around 75 years of age.
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.”
Animals of the same family as a Harp seal
We found other animals of the Phocidae family:
- Ross seal bringing 208.63 kilos (459.95 lbs) to the scale
- Hawaiian monk seal bringing 223 kilos (491.63 lbs) to the scale
- Northern elephant seal bringing 1116.2 kilos (2460.8 lbs) to the scale
- Caspian seal bringing 62.3 kilos (137.35 lbs) to the scale
- Harbor seal bringing 87.31 kilos (192.49 lbs) to the scale
- Ringed seal bringing 70.96 kilos (156.44 lbs) to the scale
- Ringed seal bringing 71.1 kilos (156.75 lbs) to the scale
- Ribbon seal bringing 90 kilos (198.42 lbs) to the scale
- Baikal seal bringing 89.5 kilos (197.31 lbs) to the scale
- Caspian seal bringing 62.33 kilos (137.41 lbs) to the scale
Animals with the same weight as a Harp seal
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Pagophilus groenlandicus:
- Amazon river dolphin with a weight of 121.22 kilos (267.24 lbs)
- Black wildebeest with a weight of 156.55 kilos (345.13 lbs)
- Reindeer with a weight of 108.73 kilos (239.71 lbs)
- Mountain tapir with a weight of 155.46 kilos (342.73 lbs)
- Hourglass dolphin with a weight of 110 kilos (242.51 lbs)
- Pacific white-sided dolphin with a weight of 109.85 kilos (242.18 lbs)
- Topi with a weight of 127.19 kilos (280.41 lbs)
- Baiji with a weight of 112.07 kilos (247.07 lbs)
- Dusky dolphin with a weight of 127.25 kilos (280.54 lbs)
- Peale’s dolphin with a weight of 120 kilos (264.55 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Harp seal
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Harp seal:
- Eld’s deer with a size of 1.65 meter (5′ 5″)
- Juan Fernández fur seal with a size of 1.7 meter (5′ 7″)
- Calamian deer with a size of 1.39 meter (4′ 7″)
- Marsh deer with a size of 1.72 meter (5′ 8″)
- Mule deer with a size of 1.52 meter (5′ 0″)
- Nyala with a size of 1.94 meter (6′ 5″)
- Subantarctic fur seal with a size of 1.63 meter (5′ 4″)
- Barbary sheep with a size of 1.45 meter (4′ 10″)
- Northern fur seal with a size of 1.74 meter (5′ 9″)
- Okapi with a size of 2 meter (6′ 7″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Harp seal
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Harp seal:
- New Zealand sea lion
- Royal antelope
- Moose
- Domestic yak
- Rahm’s brush-furred rat
- Eared hutia
- Allied rock-wallaby
- Southern muriqui
- Green bush squirrel
- Lander’s horseshoe bat
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Harp seal
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Harp seal:
- Asinus with an average maximal age of 47 years
- Gray bat with an average maximal age of 39.25 years
- Beluga whale with an average maximal age of 40 years
- Walrus with an average maximal age of 40 years
- Pantropical spotted dolphin with an average maximal age of 46 years
- Harp seal with an average maximal age of 42 years
- Toque macaque with an average maximal age of 35 years
- Black crested gibbon with an average maximal age of 44.08 years
- Spotted hyena with an average maximal age of 41.08 years
- Northern giraffe with an average maximal age of 36.25 years