🦭Baikal Seal
The Baikal seal, also known as Lake Baikal seal or nerpa, is a species of earless seal endemic to Lake Baikal in Siberia, Russia. The Baikal seal is one of the smallest earless/true seals, and one of the few exclusively freshwater pinniped species. The related Caspian seal inhabits another lake, albeit being saltwater, the Caspian Sea. Both species are closely related to the ringed seal, which inhabits the Arctic Ocean.
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IUCN Red List assessment, 2016.
- Body mass
- 90 kg
- Body length
- 1.35 m
- Shoulder height
- not recorded
- Top speed
- not recorded
- Bite force
- not recorded
- Maximum lifespan
- 56 years
Everything we know about the Baikal Seal
Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.
Body mass90 kgrecord 90 kg · SeaLifeBaseCOMBINEOther figures ↓Hide ↑
Record: largest individual on record
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- 90 kgAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Body length1.35 mCOMBINEOther figures ↓Hide ↑
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- 1.4 mSeaLifeBasev25.04
Brain mass194 gCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Maximum lifespan56 yearsCOMBINEOther figures ↓Hide ↑
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- 56 yearsAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Generation length22 yearsCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Age at maturity6.2 yearsCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Gestation276 daysCOMBINEOther figures ↓Hide ↑
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- 273 daysAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Litter size1COMBINEOther figures ↓Hide ↑
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- 1.02AnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Trophic levelCarnivoreCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Activity cycleCrepuscular / mixedCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Population density1.58 per km²COMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Volume l90 LaverageDetails ↓Hide ↑
Body mass at ~1.0 kg/L, the density of vertebrate tissue.
average = a mean across sexes or species in a group.
Not recorded for Baikal Seal yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force.
Family tree
- kingdomAnimalia
- ›phylumChordata
- ›classMammalia
- ›orderCarnivora
- ›familyPhocidae
- ›genusPusa
- ›speciesPusa sibirica
- classMammals · Mammalia
- orderCarnivorans · Carnivora
- familyPhocidae
- genusPusa
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- kingdomMetazoa
- phylumChordata
- subphylumCraniata
- subphylumVertebrata
- superclassGnathostomata
- superclassSarcopterygii
- superclassTetrapoda
- classMammals · Mammalia
- subclassTheria
- superorderLaurasiatheria
- orderCarnivorans · Carnivora
- suborderCaniformia
- familyPhocidae
- genusPusa
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