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The harp seal has a black face with silvery-gray body. Its eyes are pure black. It has black harp or wishbone-shaped markings on the back. They exhibit little sexual dimorphism.[2] The baby harp seal (pup) has a yellow-white coat at birth, but after three days, the coat turns white and stays white for about 12 days. Adult harp seals grow up to be 1.7 to 2.0 m (5 to 6 feet) long and weigh from 140 to 190 kg (300 to 400 pounds).

Baby Harp TM, 12 Strings (Item Cde: HPBY) This functioning harp has an engraved rosewood frame with a birch soundboard. Featuring 12 DuPont hard nylon strings with a range from F above Middle C to High C. There are no sharpening levers. A tuning tool and an extra string set are included. Instruction book sold separately. Approximately 21 high.

This baby harp seal is covered in a white coat of fur which if perfect for its habitat, the pack ice. Baby Harp Seal pups more than triple their birth size in the first two weeks of their lives by feeding on the rich milk produced by their mothers. Most of this weight is blubber and they lose around 10 kg during a four to five week fast which they begin around 2 weeks of age.

Baby Harp Seal Scientific Name: Pinnipedia (Seals and Sea Lions) Taxonomy 1gt; Order: Carnivora sgt; Family: Phocidae ogt; Genus: Pagophilus ngt; Species: P. groenlandicus Description: Silver-white fur with black head; dark markings on the back that resemble harps; wide face; with round close set eyes. Range: North Atlantic and Arctic Oceans from northern Russia, to Newfoundland and the Gulf of St. Lawrence, Canada.