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- Animals of British Columbia
- Farm Animals for Toddlers (Merino)
Provides drawings of a few farm animals and states the sound each makes.
- Farm Animals - Breeds of Livestock (OSU)
Provides short descriptions and pictures of various breeds of common farm animals.
- Farm Animals - Livestock Library (OSU)
Provides short descriptions and pictures of various breeds of common farm animals.
- Farm Animals - Australian
Provides information and activities related to common Australian animals, such as the Koala Bear.
- Animals (Oakland Zoo)
Provides pictures and detailed descriptions for a wide variety of animals.
- Animals on the Farm
- Animals
- Animals in Animation (Plainview Elementary)
Includes a flag, an arrowhead, a lizard catching a fly, a spider dropping down, a deer running, an elephant walking and a butterfly.
- Animals by Continent (Hanover Zoo)
Provides an articles and pictures. 12-04
- Pleistocene Animals (Illinois State Museum)
Provides articles and pictures.
- Live Animals in the Classroom (University of Saskatchewan)
Provides information and activities for the care and use of animals in the classroom..
- Petfinder (American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals - ASPCA)
Matches people wanting pets with people wanting to give away pets. 11-99
- Animals Search (Lycos)
Provides Web searches for animals, by class, habitat, continent, or name. 6-00
- Animals A B C
- Animals D E F
- Animals G H I
- Animals M N O
- Animals P Q R
- Animals S T U
- Animals V W X Y Z
- Animals (About.com - Sampson)
Provides sources of information on animals, listed alphabetically. 8-00
- Animals by Region (Kids' Planet)
Provides factsheets on animals, by region of the world. Includes drawings of the animals.
- Cloud Forest Animals (CloudForestAlive.org)
Provides pictures and interesting descriptions of animals that inhabit the cloud forests of Central America and the Mesoamerican Biological Corridor. Includes, for example, the spider wasp, guan, olingo, toucanet, howler monkeys, gray fox, viper, fruit bats, bananaquit, cyclosa spider, solitaire, skink, spectacled owl, ant lion, thrush, tink frog, nocternal katydids, chunk-headed snake, anole, trogon, spiny lizard, oropendolas, marine toad, coati, two-toed sloth, mottled owl, army ants, deer, redstarts, and screech owl. 2-01
- Animals Clipart (ClipsAhoy.com)
Provides Bears, Birds, Bugs, Cats, Cows, Dogs, Donkeys and Mules, Elephants, Foxes, Fish and Water, Horses, Moose, Pets, Pigs, Rabbits, Reptiles, Rodents, and Sheep. 2-01
- Farm Animals - Australian (Education World)
Provides sources of information on farm animals, including instructional sites. 4-01
- Farm Animals Worksheets (AbcTeach)
Provides dozens of printable worksheets by theme. 8-01
- Farm Animals (Snaith Primary School)
Provides worksheets and interactive problems to solve. 11-01
- Farm Animals (KidsFarm.com)
Provides farm animal pictures and sounds. Designed for elementary level children. 12-01
- Invasive Species - Terrestrial Animals (InvasiveSpecies.gov)
Provides profiles of damaging land animals, including Africanized honeybee, Asian long-horned beetle, Asian tiger mosquito, Brown tree snake, Cane toad, European gypsy moth, European starling, Glassy-winged sharpshooter, Hemlock Woolly adelgid, Red imported fire ant, and Wild Boar. 12-01
- Animals (National Geographic)
Provides pictures, profiles, sounds, and news on select or unusual animals. 3-02
- Animals and Nature (National Geographic)
Provides news on exploration of the earth. 5-02
- Scientific Classification of Animals (Wikipedia.org)
Explains how the animal world is organized by classifications. 2-04
- Animals A - Z (Zoobooks.com)
Provides information on animals, including what they eat and how long they live.
- Culture in Animals (NationalGeographic.com)
"When researchers first saw something strange on the snout of a dolphin in Shark Bay, Western Australia, they thought it was a massive tumor. Now they say it provides the first evidence of a tool-use culture in marine mammals.” 6-05
- -04-05-06 "Missing Link" Between Fish and Land Animals Found (TimesOnline.co.uk)
"An evolutionary missing link that was among the first fish to leave the sea and walk on land has been unearthed in the Canadian Arctic."
"The fossil discovery illuminates a chapter in the history of life on Earth that was essential to the ultimate emergence of human beings. Tiktaalik roseae, which lived about 375 million years ago, has features that blur the distinction between fish and terrestrial limbed creatures." 04-06
- -11-12-06 Self-Awareness in Animals (MSNBC News)
"With one small gesture—reaching to touch the mark on his own face [when he saw it in the mirror] when he awakened—the chimp touched off a revolution not only in psychology, but philosophy as well. He saw himself." 11-06
- The Ten Most Intelligent Animals (Science.eNotes.com)
"According to Edward O. Wilson, a behavioral biologist (scientist who studies the behavior of animals), the ten most intelligent animals are the following:" 11-06
- The Largest and Smallest Living Animals (Science.eNotes.com)
"Although the ostrich is considered the largest living bird, many extinct species of birds were even larger. Before becoming extinct, the flightless New Zealand moa and the Madagascar elephantbird both stood 10 feet (3 meters) tall." 11-06
- The Longest Living Animals (Science.eNotes.com)
"Of the mammals, humans and fin whales live the longest." 11-06
- Animations of Animals (AnimationLibrary.com)
"Welcome to the NEW Animation Library, a site featuring over 13,748 free animations for you to use on your website or send as digital postcards using our powerful Postcard Station. While you are browsing the Animation Library, you can listen to great music by using the Jukebox." 02-07
- Animal Resources for Students and Educators (A-Z Animals)
Provides resources for students and educators by the name of the animal. 01-09
- Anteaters (A-Z Animals)
"The giant anteaters front feet have large claws, which are curled under when the giant anteater walks. Although the giant anteater has poor vision the giant anteater is able to detect food using its keen sense of smell." 01-09
- Armadillos (A-Z Animals)
"The armadillo has a hard outer shell and can curl up into a ball leaving no soft body parts exposed to danger (a bit like a woodlouse). The armadillo also has long claws which the armadillo uses for digging burrows and hunting for insects in the earth."
"Despite the armadillos odd shape, most armadillos can also reach a top speed of nearly 30 mph so can easily outrun most jungle predators." 01-09
- Aye Aye (A-Z Animals)
"The aye aye has rodent-like teeth with a long, thin middle finger that fills the same ecological niche as a woodpecker. The aye aye taps on trees to find grubs, then gnaws holes in the wood and inserts its long middle finger into the hole to pull the grubs out." 01-09
- Baboons (A-Z Animals)
"Baboons are medium sized primates found in Africa, and are best known for their bright behinds!"
"Baboon live together in troops with only one dominant male baboon for every troop. The other up to 50 remaining baboons are females and baby baboons, that are either female or not old enough to survive without the baboon troops help." 01-09
- Camels (A-Z Animals)
"The bactrian camel is better known as being the type of camel with two humps. There are only two surviving species of camel remaining, the single humped camels from the Middle East and the bactrian (double humped) camel from Northern Asia." 01-09
- Bears (A-Z Animals)
"Most bears are nocturnal, solitary animals only really congregating during the bears mating season. The mother bear will then raise her cubs until they too, are old enough to live on their own. Bears generally have an excellent sense of smell and are also fantastic at climbing trees, swimming and are able to run at speeds of up to 35 mph for short periods of time."
The sub-species of bears include: Asian Black Bear, Black Bear, Brown Bear, Giant Panda Bear, Grizzly Bear, Polar Bear, Spectacled Bear, and Sun Bear. 01-09
- Bats (A-Z Animals)
"Bats are found all around the world and there are hundreds of different species of bat, living in caves and forests, particularly in the Southern Hemisphere. The bumblebee bat found in the jungle of Thailand, is the smallest mammal in the world and weighs less than a penny!" 01-09
- Binturong (A-Z Animals)
"The binturong is also commonly called the Asian bearcat. The binturong is native to the jungles of southeast Asia and is commonly found in countries such as Myanmar, Vietnam, Thailand and Malaysia."
"The binturong is a very vocal animal and the binturongs sounds can travel a long way through the thick jungles. The binturong is known to make chuckling sounds when the binturong seems to be happy and the binturong appears utter a high-pitched wail if the binturong seems to be annoyed." 01-09
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