Animal Life

ANIMAL LIFE


Antarctica is an interesting place and animals are important. Two of them are Seals and Penguins.

The Weddle Seal can swim and catch fish 1000 ft in the water. The Ross island Seals has the best fish for the Weddell Seal. The leopard seal catches its prey by jumping out in front of them.

Weddell Seals live for only 25 years at a time the Weddell seal stays with her pup for the first 2 weeks and then she runs back to the sea. After 2 days the pup learns to catch it’s prey. It takes 4 days to learn how to swim .The mum will collect food for the pup for 10 or 9 weeks then it goes to sea to have a life of its own. In the sea the Elephant seal stays with the pup for 25-30 days to teach it tricks and how to survive.

A king penguins chicks first winter; it can weigh almost as much as a normal adult. Over the winter the chick loses weight but when spring returns and fishing improves it begins to put on a lot of weight. But when they’re older they begin to go skinny again. If the chick or the parent leaves its chick the emperor will steal alone it. When some penguins come back from fishing they will have a hole in its stomach.