• Chapter1- Penguins• Chapter2-Seals• Chapter3-Birds• Chapter4-Whales• Chapter5-Krill

There are 17 different types of Penguins!!• Adelie• African• Chinstrap• Emperor• Erect Crested• Fairy• Fjordland Crested• Galapagos• Gentoo• Humboldt• King• Macaroni• Magellanic• Rockhopper• Royal• Snares Island• Yellow Eyed

• The Emperor Penguin is the largest out of the Penguin species, they stand 4 feet (1.2 metres) tall.

• They are also carnivores (an animal that gets food from killing and eating other animals).

• Emperor Penguins life span is about 15-20 years.• Their group name is called a colony.• The female penguin hatches a single egg then promptly leave it behind.

They then go on a hunting trip that lasts some two months.

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There are 35 different types of seals but only six types live in

Antarctica• Weddell Seals• Southern Elephant

Seals• Ross Seals• Leopard Seals• Crabeater Seals• Antarctic Fur Seals

• Population:800,000 individuals • Location: Antarctic circumpolar• Size:Up to 10 ft long• Weight:up to 1000 pounds• Diet: Fish, squid, & krill• Habitat:Fast shelf ice near cracks and holes • Weddell pups are born in colonies in September and October.• Females give birth to one pup per year after reaching about six years of age.

Mothers provide pups with a rich nourishing milk (up to 70% fat) allowing the pups to gain weight quickly. Weighing up to 60 pounds at birth, by the end of the nursing period (usually 6 to 8 weeks) they have gained as much as 200 pounds.

There are 8 different types in Antarctica !

• Albatross• Cormorant • Antarctic Fulmar• Kelp Gull• Antarctic petrel• Snowy Sheathbill• South Polar Skua• Arctic Tern

• Population:Several thousand breeding pairs • Location: Subantarctic Islands & Antarctic continent• Wingspan:4 feet• Weight:2 to 4 pounds• Diet: Krill, squid, fish, eggs, chicks, & carrion• Nests:Shallow depressions on the ground in sheltered

locations• The estimated lifespans of both South Polar and Antarctic

skuas are approximately 11 years.

There are 8 different species of whales in Antarctica

• Blue whale• Fin whale• Humpback whale • Minke whale• Orca(killer)whale• Sei whale

• Southern right whale• Sperm whale

• The population is around several hundred thousand.

• They are 25 to 30 feet long.• These whales weigh an average 7 tons.• The largest population of Orca whales seems

to be in Antarctica where it is estimated some 160,000 animals range.

• Krill are found in every ocean in the world.• Krill eat algae and plankton then they take in

nutrients that can be used by a variety of animals.• Krill is a favourite food of humpback whales.• Blue whales feed exclusively on these tiny krill.• Krill are about an inch or two long.• Blue whales can intake at least 4 tons of krill a day