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There is one insect, the Antarctic midge -- Belgica antarctica -- that lives on the Antarctic Peninsula. This animal takes two winters to develop through larval stages into adulthood, and survives high wind, salt water and extreme UV rays. It lives for about a week, mates, and then dies.
From its Wikipedia page: "To adapt to the cold temperatures, B.Antarctica accumulates trehalose, glucose, and erythritol." These chemicals reduce the amount of ice that forms in the insect's body.
There are no animals at the South Pole. Antarctica is too cold to support animal life, and there is no food chain there.
However, sea mammals and sea birds do breed on Antarctica's beaches during that season. These animals all find their food chain in the Southern Ocean that surrounds the continent.
Albatross live 75% of their lives on the wing over water. Albatross in the Southern Hemisphere breed on sub-Antarctic islands, and not necessarily on the continent.
These animals' feathers, which they can 'fluff up' providing a layer of down, facilitate their survival in cold air.
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List 5 antarctic fish?
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The Antarctic. whoever answered this, Antarctic is wrong. there are 67 species of insects in the antarctic. the only place i know of with no insects is under the ocean
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you can't
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Not for long.
What was Douglas mawson's dream?
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No
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Can bacteria survive in the the Antarctic?
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How do the flora and fauna survive on Antarctica?
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How do arctic penguins survive in their environment?
There are no penguins in the Arctic only the Antarctic!
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