What is the maximal age a Harp seal reaches?
An adult Harp seal (Pagophilus groenlandicus) usually gets as old as 42 years.
Harp seals are around 242 days in the womb of their mother. When born, they weight 10.05 kg (22.15 lbs) and measure 2.9 cm (0′ 2″). As a member of the Phocidae family (genus: Pagophilus), their offspring is 1 babies per pregnancy. Fully grown, they reach a bodylength of 1.72 meter (5′ 8″).
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):
- Harbor seal becoming 40 years old
- Ringed seal becoming 46 years old
- Grey seal becoming 46.67 years old
- Caspian seal becoming 50 years old
- Ringed seal becoming 46 years old
- Ribbon seal becoming 31 years old
- Southern elephant seal becoming 23 years old
- Baikal seal becoming 56 years old
- Hawaiian monk seal becoming 30 years old
- Caribbean monk seal with 1 babies per pregnancy
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:
- Crabeater seal usually reaching 39 years
- Long-finned pilot whale usually reaching 45 years
- Common bottlenose dolphin usually reaching 46 years
- Spectacled bear usually reaching 36.42 years
- Chacma baboon usually reaching 45 years
- South American tapir usually reaching 35 years
- Red-faced spider monkey usually reaching 37.75 years
- Gray bat usually reaching 39.25 years
- Burchell’s zebra usually reaching 40 years
- Siamang usually reaching 38 years
Animals with the same number of babies Harp seal
The same number of babies at once (1) are born by:
- Lar gibbon
- Mauritian tomb bat
- Great fruit-eating bat
- Guam flying fox
- Yellow baboon
- Eastern falanouc
- Hispaniolan hutia
- Grivet
- Chacma baboon
- Water buffalo
Weighting as much as Harp seal
A fully grown Harp seal reaches around 132.25 kg (291.56 lbs). So do these animals:
- Peale’s dolphin weighting 120 kilos (264.55 lbs) on average
- Atlantic spotted dolphin weighting 110 kilos (242.51 lbs) on average
- Bluebuck weighting 150 kilos (330.69 lbs) on average
- Topi weighting 127.19 kilos (280.41 lbs) on average
- Harp seal weighting 132 kilos (291.01 lbs) on average
- Striped dolphin weighting 142.05 kilos (313.17 lbs) on average
- Sumatran serow weighting 110.94 kilos (244.58 lbs) on average
- Reindeer weighting 108.73 kilos (239.71 lbs) on average
- Common tsessebe weighting 133.5 kilos (294.32 lbs) on average
- Rough-toothed dolphin weighting 130 kilos (286.6 lbs) on average
Animals as big as a Harp seal
Those animals grow as big as a Harp seal:
- Naemorhedus sumatraensis with 1.45 meter (4′ 10″)
- Llama with 1.66 meter (5′ 6″)
- Southern reedbuck with 1.51 meter (5′ 0″)
- Eld’s deer with 1.65 meter (5′ 5″)
- Anoa with 1.58 meter (5′ 3″)
- South American tapir with 2.01 meter (6′ 7″)
- Western gorilla with 1.6 meter (5′ 3″)
- Lion with 1.84 meter (6′ 1″)
- Spectacled bear with 1.77 meter (5′ 10″)
- South Andean deer with 1.55 meter (5′ 2″)