Description

Size:

Maximum length: adults, 2.5 m; pups, 1.3 m at birth
Maximum weight: 360 kg

Features:

• long body
• small, narrow head
• broad, fleshy muzzle
• large close-set eyes
• prominent whiskers
• short, broad foreflippers

Colour:

• light to dark grey to brown body
• face and flippers are rust coloured
• pups are born with a long dark wavy coat, with up to 4 transverse lighter coloured bands from its back to the top of its head