Thursday, November 29, 2007

Did You Know That....

...Crabeater seals are the second most numerous large species of mammals on Earth, after humans. They eat krill, but not crabs. They live in the ice pack around Antarctica. Females grow up to 3.6 m (almost 12 ft.) in length and 500 lb (230 kg) in weight.

...Krill are small shrimp-like animals and typically are the length of a thumbnail and weigh the same as a large paper clip. One species, the Antarctic Krill, makes up a biomass of over 500 million tons, roughly twice that of humans.