Mr. Watts' presentation

I found this presentation quite interesting! So many amazing things I learned about different animals, for example, I never knew about the krill.

· Seals

- The seal mother’s milk is 40% fat.

- Super Weiner, a pup that doesn’t stop eating, most likely to be a dominate male.

- Crab Eater Seals eat mostly krill.

- Leopard Seals eat Penguins and Krill.

- Leopard Seals can be extremely aggressive.

- Elephant Seals can be 500 kilos and eat squid and penguins.

- Female Leopard seals, are very dangerous, for your own safety, don’t go in the water with one around.

- Male Leopard Seals, sing to attract the Female seals.

· Whales

- Eat all the time.

- Huge animals.

- Migrate from Brazil, going down to the arctic.

· Penguins

- Macaroni Penguin

- Adelie Penguin

- Gentoo Penguin

- Chinstrap Penguin

o Hatch at Christmas

o Arrive to arctic at about the same time at spring.

- Emperor penguins

o Arrive at the end of summer, because they take longer to grow a chick.

o Hatch in Christmas / New Years.

o They have to survive during the winter to grow a chick.

· Krill

- Eat algae like super fast machines.

- Swim fast.

- Gets eaten by almost every animal in the arctic.

- Eat ¼ of their body weight in a day.

- Live until 10 years, eat algae the whole time.

- They only make eggs in around the spring.

· Polar Bears

- Almost eat only the fat in the animals they kill, very rarely eat the meat.

- They have very thick fur, so they won’t freeze to death.

- Very Strong and powerful.

- Not very fast runners.

- Polar Bears live only in the Arctic, not in the Antarctic.

I consider Mr. Watts’ presentation very good! I learned so many things from it, he had great stories, and tons of information. I really enjoyed the presentation, I can’t imagine living in such a cold climate, and in some of the pictures of him and his team they were sometimes not wearing any hats, which I found quite weird, not wearing a hat in that type of climate and in that type of weather. Mr. Watts helped me to connect more to the things we are learning in class, with stuff he actually got to experience. He taught me something which I found pretty important: Every animal is equipped with different types of tools, to make our world as it should be.

- -Roy