Harbor Seal Baculum Replica

$14.00

Both courtship and mating occur under water. Researchers have found Harbor Seal males gather under water, turn on their backs, put their heads together, and vocalize to attract females ready for breeding. Pregnancy rate of females was 92% from age 3 to age 36, with lowered reproductive success after the age of 25 years.

Description

Harbor Seal Baculum Replica measures 4.3 inches. Harbor Seal Baculum Replica is museum quality polyurethane resin cast. Made in USA. Our precise baculum can be used as a teaching tool, museum baculum exhibit, home décor baculum, or office décor baculum.

The Harbor, Harbour seal, or Phoca vitulina, also known as the common seal, is a true seal found along temperate and Arctic marine coastlines of the Northern Hemisphere.

Harbor Seal or Phoca vitulina are brown, silvery white, tan, or gray, with distinctive V-shaped nostrils. An adult can attain a length of 6.1 ft. and a mass of up to 370 lbs. Blubber under the seal’s skin helps to maintain body temperature.

Harbor Seal or Phoca vitulina stick to familiar resting spots or haulout sites, generally rocky areas where they are protected from adverse weather conditions and predation, near a foraging area.

Males may fight over mates under water and on land. Females bear a single pup after a nine-month gestation, which they care for alone. Pups can weigh up to 35 lbs. and are able to swim and dive within hours of birth. They develop quickly on their mothers’ fat-rich milk, and are weaned after four to six weeks.

Harbor Seal or Phoca vitulina prefer to frequent familiar resting sites. They may spend several days at sea and travel up to 50 km in search of feeding grounds, and will also swim more than a hundred miles upstream into fresh water in large rivers in search of migratory fish like shad and salmon.

Harbor Seal or Phoca vitulina frequently congregate in harbors, bays, and estuaries in pursuit of prey fish such as salmon, menhaden, anchovy, sea bass, herring, mackerel, cod, whiting and flatfish, and occasionally shrimp, crabs, mollusks, and squid.

Individual Harbor Seal or Phoca vitulina possess a unique pattern of spots, either dark on a light background or light on a dark. They vary in color from brownish black to tan or grey; underparts are generally lighter. The body and flippers are short, heads are rounded. Nostrils appear distinctively V-shaped. As with other true seals, there is no ear flap.

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Additional information

Weight 2 lbs
Dimensions 4.3 in
Harbor Seal Facts

Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Carnivora
Clade: Pinnipedia
Family: Phocidae
Genus: Phoca
Species: P. vitulina
Binomial name: Phoca vitulina
Conservation status: Least concern