The Cape petrel is a medium-sized seabird with black-and-white spotted plumage. It lives in the cold waters of the Southern Ocean and often accompanies ships.
The Cape petrel differs from other petrels by its bright spotted pattern on the wings and back. It is important for nature because it transfers nutrients from the ocean to land and serves as food for predators.
Worker
birth time
Pelagic Ocean
very cold, short summer, lots of moss
Dogs, dolphins, lynx hang out for 9-25 years and party on their birthday three times a year
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Map
will celebrate their {n} birthday
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Polar tundra
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When your next jubilee falls in {name} life years
Human
days
Warm summer
marine pelagic
live octopuses, squids
How old you would be if you lived as {name}
summer from pleasant to very hot
crustaceans
Antarctic and other krill
Theoretical maximum lifespan estimated from the Dynamic Energy Budget (DEB) mathematical model. This value reflects a biological potential derived from metabolic parameters, not from direct observation — real recorded lifespans are often significantly shorter.
small planktonic crustaceans — copepods, krill
adult
Maturity
cephalopods
fish of small size
Coconut
About health
Warm or hot summer and rains
marine coastal
When your next birthday would fall if you lived as {name}
plankton
carrion
Repro interval
results
summer warm, winter not very cold
Colors
Sex
Upcoming jubilees
scavenging, eat already dead animals
Gremllins
mo
live fish
all seas and oceans
Trophic type
Filters
small fish
Warm or hot summer
the coldest and iciest edge, almost always snow and ice
Upcoming birthdays
Breeding structure built or used for laying eggs and raising offspring.
Truly long lives: 40-100 years. Bowhead whales, albatrosses, giant tortoises recall their birthday at most once a year
Lifespan
rains almost always, very humid
Age (juvenile)
Age (from birth to death)
Age (embryo)
Wanderers
Food items are collected from exposed outer surfaces of substrates.
Wings size
far from shore, deep water, large whales and sharks live here
world of Australasia
Jubilee = every 10th birthday
marine coastal demersal
Earliest developmental stage inside an egg or womb.
Business sausages
Lifespan average
water is almost always cold, there may be ice in winter, not hot in summer
What do they look like?
Maturity
scavenging
emergence (insects)
end of lifespan
Wings color
How do they live?
fertilization / egg laying
How do they behave?
birth / hatching
metamorphosis / end of larval stage
fish
gathering from the surface and scavenging
end of acceleration
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Mature, fully developed individual capable of reproduction.
Cold sea
very cold, lots of snow and ice
from 0.5 to 0.8 kilograms, 0.5 – 1 meter
world of Antarctica
Pets
{name} jubilee
cm
Old-timers
Find an animal or breed...
Wingspan
turns
Rascals
Abyssal Ocean
Litter size
Map data sources: Ecosystem classification — IUCN Global Ecosystem Typology (Keith et al., 2022), indicative distribution maps Keith et al. (2020), https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3546513; Large Marine Ecosystems — NOAA LME Program; Bathymetry — GEBCO Bathymetric Compilation Group (2026), GEBCO_2026 Grid, https://doi.org/10.5285/4f68d5c7-45eb-f999-e063-7086abc036fa; Climate data — Generated using Copernicus Climate Change Service information; Species occurrence data — GBIF.org, Derived dataset "all animals", https://zveriki.com/dataset/dataset.tsv; Terrestrial ecoregions — RESOLVE Ecoregions 2017 (Dinerstein et al., 2017), CC BY 4.0
How to care for them?
Living from 25 to 40 years. Orangutans, bald eagles, African elephants celebrate their birthday twice a year
°C
Not specified
pelagic zone — open water far from shore and seabed
Where are they found?
all seas and oceans
Down color
Legendary longevity: over 100 years. Galapagos tortoises, Greenland sharks, ocean quahogs celebrate with family once every 4 years
Offspring
Elders
Bro
Very cold
Taxons
carnivore
if born as {name}
cold, short summer, almost no trees
age
birth date
planktivory, eat small creatures that float in the water and cannot swim against the current
Close
was
Career from 7 to 15 months. Dwarf hamsters, voles, field crickets celebrate their birthday twice a month
Marine world
The basics
My weight?
demersal biotope of coastal marine waters
Non-stop carnival: they only live a few days. Mayflies, rotifers, midges celebrate their birthday more than twice a day
surface
primary food sources
Beak size
Potential Habitat
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In husbandry
On the go from 1.3 to 3.5 years. Forest mice, anoles, rainbow fish party on their birthday once a month
Mass
Mosquitoes, fruit flies, small crustaceans hustle for up to 7 months and throw a birthday party every week
Gestation
islands and part of Australia, many unusual animals and plants
{name} birthday
No results found
very deep, dark and cold, strange fish live here
On the map
all life stages
Female ♀
Map data sources: Ecosystem classification — IUCN Global Ecosystem Typology (Keith et al., 2022), indicative distribution maps Keith et al. (2020), https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3546513; Large Marine Ecosystems — NOAA LME Program; Bathymetry — GEBCO Bathymetric Compilation Group (2026), GEBCO_2026 Grid, https://doi.org/10.5285/4f68d5c7-45eb-f999-e063-7086abc036fa; Climate data — Generated using Copernicus Climate Change Service information; Species occurrence data — GBIF.org, Derived dataset "all animals", https://zveriki.com/dataset/dataset.tsv; Terrestrial ecoregions — RESOLVE Ecoregions 2017 (Dinerstein et al., 2017), CC BY 4.0
Potential habitat modelled from GBIF occurrence data. Map © Zveriki.com, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
birth year
Maturity
lots of rain, summer from warm to very hot
sq mm
yr
Beak color
How similar?
Male ♂
until the celebration
baby / chick
Tundra
age as {name}
How do they breed?
On the go from 3.5 to 6 years. Hedgehogs, crows, lizards treat themselves to birthday snacks 6 times a year
What if eaten?
Neither
from birth to adulthood
Young offspring still dependent on parental care.
squids
world of Antarctica
nest
What do they eat?
Where do they live?
Immature individual that has not yet reached reproductive maturity.
Marine world
from birth to death
Plumage color
Duration
saline marine habitat
This is me
Always very wet
Gamers
How are they built?
marine
mm
Theoretical lifespan
ml
Stars
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the coldest and iciest edge, almost always snow and ice
coastal marine zone — shelf, neritic zone
My age?
wk
My size?
Asexual
swap
Rabbits, falcons, red-eared turtles hang out for 6-9 years and party on their birthday four times a year
Where do they take shelter?
celebrated their {n} birthday
When you would have been born if you lived as {name}
live squids
Daddies
Lifespan maximum
krill
whole life
Hermaphrodite ⚥
embryo
Length
kg
Observations
◉{N} more on tap