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The animal life in Antarctica is primarily partly aquatic and use the ocean as a principle source of food. These include birds (gulls, penguins) and some mammals (several species of seal). There are entirely land based species of insects. The seas around the continent have diverse ocean ecosystems of fish seals and whales ans well as krill and plankton. Among sea going mammals the leopard seal and orca are the top predators.

On land there is not much representation of plants. These are limited to some fungi, moss and lichen. These would be found most prolifically near volcanic vents and would support both plant and insect life

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