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CONTENTS

Introduction..............page 4

Aquatic Animals.......page 5

Animals that fly..............page 7

Independency............page 9

Conclusion..................page 13

Glossary.....................page 15

There are a lot of aquatic animals in Antarctica 

because Antarctica is surrounded by the 

Antarctic Ocean. One of the most common 

animals is the penguin. However, only two 

species of penguins which are the Emperor and 

the Adelie penguins live in Antarctica. They have 

blubber (a layer of fat) to keep them warm as well 

as thick water proof feathers to help them survive 

the cold climate. Penguins have pointy beaks 

because they mostly eat fish and have special hairs 

in their throat called bristles to help them swallow 

their prey and push them down their throat. The 

other features the penguins have are their webbed 

feet to keep them from sliding on the ice and wings to 

swim fast. 

In fact, most of the Antarctic animals are aquatic.  

Baby fish are most in danger because the climate is 

too cold.Another common animal is fish.However, adult 

fish have strong blubber but baby fish have thin blubber. In 

order to survive, all Antarctic animals have blubber because 

the climate can go lower than -50°c.

There are also many bird species that can 

survive in the climate of Antarctica. One of them 

is the skua birds. Skua birds don't appear very 

often because skua birds eat penguins that are still 

in their eggs but penguins lay their eggs once a 

year. Interestingly, it doesn't eat penguin chicks that 

is born from the egg. Skua birds are great spies. They 

can spy the colony of penguins and their nests with 

their incredible eye sight. Wandering albatross are 

another special type of birds that also eats penguins. It 

wanders around the Antarctic and that's how it got it's 

name. It is mostly found at the sea side. Wandering 

albatross eats penguin chicks that have hatched from the 

eggs instead of one in the egg. 

The fish depends on the coral reef to camouflage. 

Coral reef depends on their self to grow their own 

prey in side them self. Sea weed depends on the 

sun for energy. There are a lot of Independence in 

Antarctica.   Independency includes food chains too. 

Plankton depends on the sun shine to get energy. 

The plankton will get eaten by small fish that will get 

eaten by bigger fish that gets eaten by penguin which 

gets eaten by seals, shark and killer whale and other 

birds. The animal that has the most predators are fish. 

Fish's predators are Antarctic birds, penguins, shark 

killer whale and other fish.

This picture on the right will help you with the 

explanation.

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