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Adult harp seals grow to be 1.7 to 2.0 m (5 ft 7 in to 6 ft 7 in) long and weigh from 115 to 140 kg (254 to 309 lb). [1] The harp seal pup often has a yellow-white coat at birth due to staining from amniotic fluid, but after one to three days, the coat turns white and stays white for 2–3 weeks, until the first molt. [2]
Newborn seals have yellow fur because of amniotic fluid, and are still wet. When the pup dries, it is called a yellowcoat. The amniotic stain fades and the fur turns white within a few days, and it gets the name whitecoat. First it's called a thin whitecoat, and when it becomes visibly fatter it is a fat whitecoat. [1] Nursing lasts for about ...
A ragged-jacket (or, occasionally, "raggedy-jacket") is the name given to a harp or grey seal pup when it is undergoing its first moult, and the intermediate stage between a "whitecoat" and a "beater". [1] [2] The moulting begins when the pup is at an age of about 12–14 days, at which time they cease nursing. At this young age, the pups are ...
The number of pups born on one of England's best-known seal sites is levelling out, figures suggest. A group that counts grey seal pups on a five-mile (8km) stretch of Norfolk coast around Horsey ...
Seal pups, in particular, are culled in numbers greater than eighty thousand per year, largely by clubbing over the head with a pipe. According to the government, ...
Marine wildlife rescuers carry a rehabilitated harbor seal pup to the water at Larrabee State Park in Whatcom County to release it on August 23, 2024. The pup was abandoned by its mother in June ...
In 1983, the European Union banned the import of whitecoat harp seal pup pelts (pelts from pups less than about two weeks of age, when the pups molt). As a result, the market for pelts dropped. The kill rates thus declined in subsequent years to an average of about 52,000 seals from 1983 to 1995. During this time, the harp seal population ...
The reserve on the north Norfolk coast is expecting 4,500 pups to born before early January. Skip to main content. Sign in. Mail. 24/7 Help. For premium support please call: 800-290 ...