--- title: Antarctica: emperor huddles, krill, clear-blooded fish and stone-stealing penguins — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Antarctica: emperor huddles, krill, clear-blooded fish and stone-stealing penguins», a lesson of the biology course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: Antarctica is a frozen continent around the South Pole, colder and windier than anywher --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/170-antarctica-emperor-huddles-krill-clear-blooded-fish-and-stone-stealing-penguins/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/) / Antarctica: emperor huddles, krill, cl… # Antarctica: emperor huddles, krill, clear-blooded fish and stone-stealing penguins Lesson 170 of the biology course of Mova's primary school: 15 sentences, each with its syntax tree and pragmatics. The lessons are written for Mova, and their agreed trees are part of Mova corpus 0.4 (CC BY-SA 4.0). How Mova does on its tests: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/biology/170-antarctica-emperor-huddles-krill-clear-blooded-fish-and-stone-stealing-penguins/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/170-antarctica-emperor-huddles-krill-clear-blooded-fish-and-stone-stealing-penguins/0/) — Antarctica is a frozen continent around the South Pole, colder and windier than anywhere else on Earth, with almost no land animals, while the sea around it is crowded with life. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/170-antarctica-emperor-huddles-krill-clear-blooded-fish-and-stone-stealing-penguins/1/) — Almost everything there depends on krill, small shrimp-like animals that swarm in such numbers that they can colour the sea pink, and penguins, seals, fish and the biggest whales all eat them. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/170-antarctica-emperor-huddles-krill-clear-blooded-fish-and-stone-stealing-penguins/2/) — In a blizzard thousands of emperor penguins huddle together and slowly shuffle, so the ones on the cold edge take turns in the warm middle, like children crowding together at a cold bus stop. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/170-antarctica-emperor-huddles-krill-clear-blooded-fish-and-stone-stealing-penguins/3/) — Cartoons and adverts often show polar bears chasing penguins, but that can never happen in the wild: polar bears live in the Arctic in the far north, and penguins live in the south, on opposite ends of the planet. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/170-antarctica-emperor-huddles-krill-clear-blooded-fish-and-stone-stealing-penguins/4/) — Emperor penguins huddle in big groups to keep warm in the Antarctic winter, and the males hold the egg on their feet under a warm fold of skin for about two months without eating while the females feed at sea; partners and chicks find each other in the crowd by their calls. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/170-antarctica-emperor-huddles-krill-clear-blooded-fish-and-stone-stealing-penguins/5/) — Antarctic krill are small shrimp-like animals that live in huge swarms, and the weight of all Antarctic krill may be more than the weight of all humans. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/170-antarctica-emperor-huddles-krill-clear-blooded-fish-and-stone-stealing-penguins/6/) — Leopard seals are big hunters with powerful jaws and long teeth that catch penguins, and they also eat krill by sieving water through their teeth. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/170-antarctica-emperor-huddles-krill-clear-blooded-fish-and-stone-stealing-penguins/7/) — Weddell seals live farther south than any other mammal and keep breathing holes open in the ice, and their underwater calls sound like science fiction lasers. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/170-antarctica-emperor-huddles-krill-clear-blooded-fish-and-stone-stealing-penguins/9/) — Penguins slide on their bellies, called tobogganing, to travel fast on snow, and Adélie penguins can shoot out of the water and jump onto the ice. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/170-antarctica-emperor-huddles-krill-clear-blooded-fish-and-stone-stealing-penguins/10/) — Adélie penguins build nests of small stones to keep their eggs above melting snow, and they often steal stones from their neighbours' nests. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/170-antarctica-emperor-huddles-krill-clear-blooded-fish-and-stone-stealing-penguins/11/) — Some male penguins give stones to females as part of choosing a partner. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/170-antarctica-emperor-huddles-krill-clear-blooded-fish-and-stone-stealing-penguins/12/) — Polar bears live only in the Arctic in the north and penguins live in the southern half of the world, so they never meet in the wild. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/170-antarctica-emperor-huddles-krill-clear-blooded-fish-and-stone-stealing-penguins/13/) — The Antarctic midge is a tiny wingless fly only a few millimetres long, smaller than a grain of rice, and it is the largest land animal living all year in Antarctica. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/170-antarctica-emperor-huddles-krill-clear-blooded-fish-and-stone-stealing-penguins/14/) — Only two kinds of flowering plants grow in Antarctica, and its lichens and mosses grow so slowly that some patches are hundreds of years old. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/170-antarctica-emperor-huddles-krill-clear-blooded-fish-and-stone-stealing-penguins/15/) — The wandering albatross has the longest wingspan of any living bird, over three metres, and it can lock its wings in place so gliding uses almost no energy. - ← previous: [The Arctic Ocean: walruses, bowheads, the 400-year shark and the unicorn's tooth](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/169-the-arctic-ocean-walruses-bowheads-the-400-year-shark-and-the-unicorns-tooth/) - next →: [The Southern Ocean: blue whales, colossal squid and life under the ice](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/171-the-southern-ocean-blue-whales-colossal-squid-and-life-under-the-ice/) - ↑ back to [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/)