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1 Antarctica Wildlife Images can be downloaded here from the BAS image collection here: http://basweb.nerc-bas.ac.uk/ppre/images.php Title slide/background templates can be downloaded from the BAS Intranet here: http://basweb.nerc-bas.ac.uk/ppre/ppt-backgrounds.php

2 Antarctic Penguins Penguins are the most common bird in the Antarctic Of the 17 different types of penguin, only two (emperor and Adélie) make the Antarctic continent their true home Chinstrap, gentoo and macaroni penguins breed on the northern tip of the Antarctic Peninsula King penguins only breed on the warmer, more northerly sub-Antarctic islands More info available at: http://basweb.nerc-bas.ac.uk/ppre/information-leaflets.phphttp://basweb.nerc-bas.ac.uk/ppre/information-leaflets.php

3 Emperor penguins

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5 King penguins

6 Adélie penguins

7 Chinstrap penguin

8 Macaroni penguins

9 Antarctic Seals There are six Antarctic seal species: Leopard Ross Weddell Crabeater Fur Elephant Leopard, Ross, Weddell and Crabeater seals are ice habitat specialists, breeding on the sea ice in spring. Leopard and Ross seals tend to be solitary, whereas Weddell and Crabeater form loose breeding aggregations Antarctic fur seals and elephant seals are found north of the pack-ice zone and breed in dense colonies on beaches.

10 Leopard seal

11 Ross seal

12 Weddell seal

13 Fur seals

14 Elephant seals (females)

15 Elephant seal (male)

16 Humpback whale

17 Killer whale

18 Minke whale

19 Wandering albatrosses

20 Black-browed albatross

21 Grey-headed albatrosses

22 Light-mantled sooty albatross

23 Antarctic skua

24 Northern giant petrel

25 Arctic tern

26 Snow petrel

27 Sea stars and molluscs

28 Brachiopods

29 Diver

30 Icefish

31 Giant sea spider

32 Giant sponge and diver


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