What is the maximal age a Harp seal reaches?
An adult Harp seal (Phoca groenlandica) usually gets as old as 42 years.
Harp seals are around 243 days in the womb of their mother. When born, they weight 10 kg (22.05 lbs) and measure 2.37 meter (7′ 10″). As a member of the Phocidae family (genus: Phoca), their offspring is 1 babies per pregnancy. Fully grown, they reach a bodylength of 1.73 meter (5′ 9″).
As a reference: Usually, humans get as old as 100 years, with the average being around 75 years. After being carried in the belly of their mother for 280 days (40 weeks), they grow to an average size of 1.65m (5′ 5″) and weight in at 62 kg (137 lbs), which is obviously highly individual.
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
Not really brothers and sisters, but from the same biological family (Phocidae):
- Grey seal becoming 46.67 years old
- Ribbon seal becoming 31 years old
- Hooded seal becoming 35 years old
- Weddell seal becoming 25 years old
- Ringed seal becoming 46 years old
- Spotted seal becoming 35.5 years old
- Leopard seal becoming 26 years old
- Caspian seal becoming 50 years old
- Harp seal becoming 42 years old
- Crabeater seal becoming 39 years old
Animals that reach the same age as Harp seal
With an average age of 42 years, Harp seal are in good companionship of the following animals:
- Humboldt’s white-fronted capuchin usually reaching 44 years
- White rhinoceros usually reaching 50 years
- Gray bat usually reaching 39.25 years
- Grey seal usually reaching 46.67 years
- Pantropical spotted dolphin usually reaching 46 years
- Common bottlenose dolphin usually reaching 46 years
- Toque macaque usually reaching 35 years
- Mandrill usually reaching 46.25 years
- Black crested gibbon usually reaching 44.08 years
- Rhesus macaque usually reaching 36 years
Animals with the same number of babies Harp seal
The same number of babies at once (1) are born by:
- Dwarf free-tailed bat
- Vicuña
- Spix’s night monkey
- Koala
- Common tsessebe
- Great flying fox
- Northern bat
- White-striped free-tailed bat
- Ryukyu flying fox
- Dian’s tarsier
Weighting as much as Harp seal
A fully grown Harp seal reaches around 132 kg (291.01 lbs). So do these animals:
- Baiji weighting 112.07 kilos (247.07 lbs) on average
- Llama weighting 107.66 kilos (237.35 lbs) on average
- Black wildebeest weighting 156.55 kilos (345.13 lbs) on average
- Southern right whale dolphin weighting 116 kilos (255.74 lbs) on average
- Topi weighting 127.19 kilos (280.41 lbs) on average
- Giant panda weighting 118 kilos (260.15 lbs) on average
- Naemorhedus sumatraensis weighting 110 kilos (242.51 lbs) on average
- Mountain tapir weighting 155.46 kilos (342.73 lbs) on average
- Sumatran serow weighting 110.94 kilos (244.58 lbs) on average
- Spectacled bear weighting 123.09 kilos (271.37 lbs) on average
Animals as big as a Harp seal
Those animals grow as big as a Harp seal:
- South American fur seal with 1.65 meter (5′ 6″)
- Javan rusa with 1.63 meter (5′ 5″)
- Markhor with 1.59 meter (5′ 3″)
- Guanaco with 1.47 meter (4′ 11″)
- Brown fur seal with 1.91 meter (6′ 3″)
- Sitatunga with 1.52 meter (5′ 0″)
- Spectacled bear with 1.77 meter (5′ 10″)
- Brown bear with 1.49 meter (4′ 11″)
- Lesser kudu with 1.68 meter (5′ 6″)
- New Zealand sea lion with 2.02 meter (6′ 8″)