What we land dwellers get to see of seals is only a fraction of their lives: Seals are at home in the sea and are optimally adapted to life in the water. If the beautiful Sedna had not resisted her father’s wish to marry her off to a black raven, there would be...
Nothing works in the Antarctic without krill: the small crustacean is the basis of the food chain there. No wonder that the sea turns red when a swarm is on the way. (Photo: Wikipedia) We are lucky – the dreaded Drake Passage between Tierra del Fuego and the...
Once the wandering albatross was feared. Today, the world’s largest flying seabird is going magnificently. Because of climate change. (Photo: Heiner Kubny Countless days had passed, and still the white albatross followed the fast three-mast clipper with course...
The musk oxen (Ovibos moschatus) is a artiodactyla and is related to goats. The males (bulls) weigh 300-400 kg and reach a shoulder height of approx. 1.50 m. The females (cows) weigh 200-300 kg and reach a height of up to 1.30 m. Musk oxen are inhabitants of the...
