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Harp seal pup
Harp Seal Pup.

Harp seal pups are also known as Whitecoats, named for their fuzzy white "coat" of hair which is shed within three weeks of birth.

Reproduced by permission of Fred Bruemmer. Photo ©1974. From Fred Bruemmer, The Life of the Harp Seal (Montreal: Optimum Publishing Company, ©1977) 20.
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