Animals✿❁
✿Harp Seals✿
S c i e n t i f i c
Male harp seals are bigger than the female. The males have around 135kg weight and they usually reach up to 1,9m. While the female's weight average is 120kg and reach up to 1,8m.
Senses⫸
Their big rounded eyes contain a large spherical lens, that improved their focusing ability. On the ice, the mothers will mark their children with their smell sense. This sense also used to warn them as a predator is approaching. When they're underwater, they closed their nostrils and didn't smell anything. Their whiskers, vibrissae, help them by their touch sense underwater.
Yellow Coats last about 3 days
(Nursing Stage)
(They have partial fur and partial leather coat)
( They cannot swim. They just beat the surface of the water)
(They live on average 20-30 years)
The harp seal, Pagophilus groenlandicus, is one of the earless-seals that usually live in the Atlantic Ocean and the Arctic Ocean. Their Latin name is translated to 'ice-lover from Greenland because of they're commonly founded in Greenland.
S c i e n t i f i c
C l a s s i f i c a t i o n
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Carnivora |
| Clade: | Pinnipedia |
| Family: | Phocidae |
| Genus: | Pagophilus Gray, 1844 |
| Species: |
P. groenlandicus
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Physical Description⫸
Harp seals have black rounded big eyes. The adult harp seals have light grey fur with dark spot spread all over their bodies. Their face is black, but not it's head. On the back, they have thick or kind of short white fur with a black patch. Different from their parents, the babies are all white like a bunch of snow. They have front flippers and wide hind flippers with five digits of fin.
Male harp seals are bigger than the female. The males have around 135kg weight and they usually reach up to 1,9m. While the female's weight average is 120kg and reach up to 1,8m.
Senses⫸
Their big rounded eyes contain a large spherical lens, that improved their focusing ability. On the ice, the mothers will mark their children with their smell sense. This sense also used to warn them as a predator is approaching. When they're underwater, they closed their nostrils and didn't smell anything. Their whiskers, vibrissae, help them by their touch sense underwater.
Diet⫸
Like other pinnipeds, harp seals are carnivores. Harp seals eat any kind of fishes that they catch. But mostly they are codfish, redfish, plaice, and many else. They also eat crustaceans like shrimp, krills, and prawns. Oh yeah, they eat squid too. Harp seals usually dive into 100m to find all of those foods.
Life Circle⫸
Harp seals usually laying around in the land rather than underwater. They are social animals like humans and live in a group. Harp seals ages usually are in the average from 20 to 30 years.
Yellow Coats last about 3 days
(Right after birth)
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White Coats last about 12 days
(Nursing Stage)
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Ragged Jackets last only a day or two
(They have partial fur and partial leather coat)
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Beaters last about 7-8 weeks
( They cannot swim. They just beat the surface of the water)
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Bedlamers age one to three until death
(They live on average 20-30 years)
Reproduction⫸
The female harp seals are included as a fast ice-breeder. They are giving birth once a year. Their gestation period is taking 243 days or 7,5 months every breeding. Harp seals birth season is from February till April. When giving births, their mothers try to find a stable spot on the ice to give their pups the best chance to survive. After that, the pups are unable to move or search for food until the ice melted.
The female harp seals nurse their pups for 12 days without any hunting. Because of that, their mothers lose 3kg per day, but the pups gain 2kg per day. A few days later, the pups will be molt and their fluffy white coats will vanish.
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The female harp seals nurse their pups for 12 days without any hunting. Because of that, their mothers lose 3kg per day, but the pups gain 2kg per day. A few days later, the pups will be molt and their fluffy white coats will vanish.
https://drive.google.com/drive/my-drive
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