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SpeciesCarnivoraPhocidae
Carnivores

🦭Baikal Seal

Pusa sibirica (Gmelin, 1788)

Le phoque de Sibérie (Pusa sibirica ; syn. : Phoca sibirica) ou phoque du Baïkal est un phoque gris cendré à taches sombres pour les adultes, blanc et laineux pour les juvéniles. Il est aussi appelé nerpa ou chat de mer, en raison des touffes de vibrisses.

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≈ 1.4× your weight
Conservation status
LCLeast concern

IUCN Red List assessment, 2016.

Population trendStable
Key measurements
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
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Facts and figures

Everything we know about the Baikal Seal

Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.

Body mass
90 kgrecord 90 kg · SeaLifeBase
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Record: largest individual on record

Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

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  • 90 kgAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Body length
1.35 m
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

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Brain mass
194 g
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Maximum lifespan
56 years
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

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  • 56 yearsAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Generation length
22 years
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Age at maturity
6.2 years
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Gestation
276 days
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Figures vary

  • 273 daysAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Litter size
1
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

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  • 1.02AnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Trophic level
Carnivore
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Activity cycle
Crepuscular / mixed
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Population density
1.58 per km²
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Volume l
90 Laverage
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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.

Where it sits

Family tree

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›classMammalia
  4. ›orderCarnivora
  5. ›familyPhocidae
  6. ›genusPusa
  7. ›speciesPusa sibirica
Full lineage
  1. classMammals · Mammalia
  2. orderCarnivorans · Carnivora
  3. familyPhocidae
  4. genusPusa
All 14 branches ↓
  1. kingdomMetazoa
  2. phylumChordata
  3. subphylumCraniata
  4. subphylumVertebrata
  5. superclassGnathostomata
  6. superclassSarcopterygii
  7. superclassTetrapoda
  8. classMammals · Mammalia
  9. subclassTheria
  10. superorderLaurasiatheria
  11. orderCarnivorans · Carnivora
  12. suborderCaniformia
  13. familyPhocidae
  14. genusPusa
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What it eats
fish80%
insects and other invertebrates20%
In other languages
贝加尔海豹 (zh), Nerpa bajkalska (pl), phoque de Sibérie (fr), 바이칼물범 (ko), Pusa sibirica (es), bajkáli fóka (hu) … and 26 more languages

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