Some of the animals found in Antarctica include the following: penguins, birds, cephalopods, whales,

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Animals Found in Antarctica

• Some of the animals found in Antarctica include
  the following penguins, birds, cephalopods,
  whales, and seals.

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Penguins and Birds

• More than 80 of birds in the Antarctic region
  are penguins.
• The Emperor penguin never steps foot on land and
  spends almost its entire life in the ocean.
• The female lays her egg on an ice floe, and the
  male incubates the egg on his feet since the male
  has a special flap of skin to protect the egg,
  and an indentation in his lower body.
• The flying birds are mainly petrels and
  albatrosses that make their nests on offshore
  islands and rocky areas of coastline.
• The Arctic Tern flies between the North and South
  Poles. It spends from September to March in the
  Southern hemisphere, enjoying the summer there,
  and from April to August in the summer of the
  Northern Hemisphere.

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Cephalopods

• Cephalopods that are found in Antarctica include
  the octopus and squid.
• They play an important role in the diet of some
  whales, seals, fish, penguins and other sea
  birds.

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Whales

• There are two main types of whales in Antarctica,
  the baleen and the tooth whales.
• The baleens feed on plankton, and include
  humpback whales, blue whales and sometimes minke
  whales.
• The tooth whales include the killer whale and the
  sperm whale which feed on other mammals, such as
  seals and on fish and even birds when they can
  catch them.

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Seals

• There are mainly four types of seals the Rosss
  seal, which is less than 1 of the population,
  leopard seals, crabeater seals, and Weddell
  seals.
• There are probably about 20 million crabeater
  seals in Antarctica which have specially adapted
  teeth for sieving krill from the water.
• The leopard seals are hunters and are known to
  eat penguins, other seals and fish.