The way blue whales and other baleen whales adapt to their environment is by using blubber. Blubber is made from "fat cells and fibrous connective tissue". Blubber is an energy reserve, and it insulates a whale, from the cold ocean in Antarctica. Blue Whales can maintain a core body temperature similar to that of other large mammals, around 36.6 to 37.2 degrees Celsius. There is a "heat gradient throughout the blubber to the skin". This blubber makes the whale's body streamlined or in a fusiform (torpedo shape), and it also makes up 27% of their weight. This shape also exposes less surface area to the outside environment, therefore conserving body heat. Another way baleen whales have adapted to these cold climates is by having veins surround some arteries in their flukes and dorsal fin. The heat from the blood passing through the arteries transfers to the veins, rather than the surrounding environment. This is known as countercurrent heat exchange, and it also helps the whales conserve body heat. To decrease circulation is to conserve body heat, so when a whale dives blood is "shunted away from the surface.
Antarctica is a continent, 98% of which is covered with an ice sheet. Sharks live in liquid sea water which is warmer than the ice sheet on the continent. Two species of shark include Antarctica in their names: Mustelus antarcticus, the Gummy shark, and Somniosus antarcticus, the Southern Sleeper shark
As of 2008, the University of Rhode Island proposed that if the Southern Ocean continued to warm, more species of sharks may visit.
Orcas do not live in Antarctica. Antarctica is a continent and orcas are marine animals. Orcas swim in the Southern Oceans that surround the Antarctic continent.
They are adapted to it.
Yes, with the appropriate planning, gear and money, you can survive in Antarctica.
No. Antarctica is a land mass, although orcas have been known to swim in the seas around the Antarctic continent.
Orca whales are naturally comfortable in liquid water, including that which surrounds Antarctica.
I don't think they need heat, but could you survive in Antarctica?
Orcas can be found in the cooler water regions. Orcas can be reliably seen on tours around Vancouver Island, off Antarctica, Norway, and Iceland, and occasionally in many other areas. However, Orcas can be found in all oceans and most seas.
only sientests survive
There are no Himalayan wolves in Antarctica.
No of course not! Nothing grows well in Antarctica for cattle to survive on!
No, orcas including other marine mammals do not have fur, but contain a special fat called blubber to keep warm.
Emperor penguins are very prevalent in Antarctica.