QUESTION:
What is the least seen animal in Antarctica?

        From Jennifer M. in Ms. Wingate's Class, TX.

ANSWER from Mary Lenox, ASA, Administrative Coordinator
            Palmer Station, Antarctica
            Wed, 19 Feb 1997 16:57:08 -0500

Hi, Jennifer!

I think of the animals that live in this area, the whales are the 
ones that are seen the least.  Some summers they don't visit this 
area at all.  We have been really lucky this summer and have had 
humpbacks in the area many days.  A couple of the scientists saw two 
southern right whales this summer and from the R/V Polar Duke, our 
ship that supports the station, they saw orcas and finn whales.  I 
wish I could have seem them!!

Cheers,
Mary Lenox