Animal Life in Antarctica

                                                           Animal Life in Antarctica 
                                                           Everyone knows that there 
                                       penguins and seals in Antarctica, but what people 
                   do not know is there are many other animals in the Ice Continent. Some
other animals in the continent are Whale Seals, Albatrosses, Krill, other seabirds, several invertebrates, Whales, Penguins, and the list continues. In this post, I will talk about a few of these animals. Some Whale Seals that live there are Blue Whales, Southern Right Whales, Sei Whales, Humpback Whales, Minke Whales, Fin Whales, and many more. Here are some pictures of them for you to get a better understanding of them.

 
Humpback Whale

 
Blue Whale
 
Southern Right Whale

Sei Whales

Minke Whale

Fin Whale
The Blue Whale is the biggest animal in the world, and tons of them are in Antarctica. This Continent is (in my opinion) the best continent to visit if you want to go and see wildlife. For more information on these animals, you can visit the websites listed at the end of this post.
Look at the picture below to see the major types of Penguins in Antarctica.

These penguins are the ones you will most likely see in Antarctica. Their lifestyle is very unique from any other type of birds'. Once they are adults, the mother will go hunt for food first, then come back and feed her young, then the father will go and hunt. This will go on until the young are old enough to mate. Also, if the young get lost, or die, the mother penguin will go and steal other penguins' young, then make sure that one stays well. Just about every type of penguin will do this. To find about seals in Antarctica, look at the picture below. 
 Antarctic Fur Seal

 Crabeater Seal

 Leopard Seal

  Ross Seal

 Weddell Seal

 Southern Elephant Seal

Even though there are 35 species of seals in the entire world, only 6 of them are in Antarctica. Those are the ones listed above. Here is a fact about each one.
1). An Antarctic Fur Seal has ears. Some species of Seal do not even have ears.
2). 98% of the Crabeater Seal's diet consists of Krill.
3). The Leopard Seal is Antarctica's #1 primary predator.
4). Ross Seals have no typical predators.
5). Weddell Seal milk is one of the richest produced by any mammal.
6). Elephant Seals do not walk the Earth, they slither instead.

Sources: interestingfunfacts.com, lrs.ed.uiuc.edu, coolantarctica.com, seals-world.com 

Posted on 9/24/15