Southern Ocean Southern Hemisphere, with the greatest concentration located on and around Antarctica. Four of the 18 penguin species live and breed on the mainland and its close offshore islands. Another four species live on the subantarctic islands. Emperor penguins have four overlapping layers of feathers, keeping them warm. They are the only Antarctic animal to breed during the winter. There are relatively few fish species in few families in the Southern Ocean. The most species-rich family are the snailfish (Liparidae), followed by the cod icefish (Nototheniidae) and eelpout (Zoarcidae). Together the snailfish, eelpouts and notothenioids (which includes cod icefish and several
Southern black tit Southern black tit The southern black tit or simply black tit ("Melaniparus niger") is a species of bird in the tit family Paridae, which is native to woodland habitats in southern Africa. It occurs chiefly in tropical and subtropical savanna woodland, in a semicircular arc from Angola to the Eastern Cape, South Africa. It prefers woodland dominated by broad-leaved trees, most importantly miombo, "Combretum" species, and "Burkea africana". It is especially common in the woodlands of western Zimbabwe, where densities can reach as high as fifty birds per square kilometre. The southern black tit, unlike parids of the Northern Hemisphere