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SpeciesCarnivoraPhocidae
Carnivores

🦭Bearded Seal

Erignathus barbatus (Erxleben, 1777)

Sakallı fok (Erignathus barbatus), fokgiller (Phocidae) familyasının monotipik Erignathus cinsine mensub, Arktik Okyanusunda yaşayan bir fok türü. İlkbaharda deniz üzerinde yüzen buz parçacıkları üzerinde, Alaska'da nisan sonunda, Arktik Kanada'da ise mayıs ayında doğururlar. Doğduklarında 30–40 kg ağırlığındadırlar. Arktik Alaska'da İnyupikler ve Yupikler gibi Eskimo halklarının en yaygın avlarından biridir ve kültürlerinde önemli bir yer tutar.

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Conservation status
NTNear threatened

IUCN Red List assessment, 2025.

Population trendUnknown
Key measurements
Body mass
283 kg
Body length
2.65 m
Shoulder height
not recorded
Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
31 years
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Everything we know about the Bearded Seal

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

Body mass
283 kg
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  • 373 kgAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: low
Body length
2.65 m
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Brain mass
460 g
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Maximum lifespan
31 years
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Generation length
19 years
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Age at maturity
6.0 years
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Gestation
275 days
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  • 259 daysAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: low
Litter size
1
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  • 1AnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: low
Trophic level
Omnivore
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Activity cycle
Crepuscular / mixedestimated
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Population density
0.01 per km²
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Volume l
283 Laverage
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Body mass at ~1.0 kg/L, the density of vertebrate tissue.

estimated = a model's estimate for a species nobody has measured; average = a mean across sexes or species in a group.

Not recorded for Bearded Seal yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force.

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Closest relative on this site
🦭 Grey Seal — last shared an ancestor ≈ 6.2 million years ago.
What it eats
insects and other invertebrates60%
fish40%
In other languages
髯海豹 (zh), морской заяц (ru), Remmesæl (da), Bartrobbe (de), Erignathus barbatus (es), partahylje (fi) … and 26 more languages
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