Saint Louis Zoo
Saint Louis Zoo: Polar Bear
Discover fun facts and learn about the habitat, appearance, and conservation status of the polar bear.
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San Francisco Zoo: North American River Otter
Meet the North American river otter, discover fascinating facts, and learn about their physical characteristics, diet, habitat, behavior, and conservation status.
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San Francisco Zoo: American Black Bear
Learn fascinating facts about the habitat, behavior, physical characteristics, diet, and conservation status of the American Black Bear.
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San Francisco Zoo: Red Panda
Interesting discussion on the physical characteristics, diet, habitat, behavior, and conservation status of the red panda with fascinating facts.
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San Francisco Zoo: Mexican Gray Wolf
Meet the Mexican gray wolf, discover fascinating facts, and learn about physical characteristics, diet, habitat, behavior, and conservation status.
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San Francisco Zoo: Bobcat
Detailed information and fascinating facts about the bobcat include diet, habitat, physical features, behavior, and conservation status.
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San Francisco Zoo: Fishing Cat
Detailed information and fascinating facts about the blue-winged teal include diet, habitat, physical features, behavior, and conservation status.
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Zoo Miami: African Lion
Contains a general overview plus interesting facts about the African lion's diet, size, weight, habitat, and conservation.
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Phoenix Zoo: Mexican Gray Wolf
Learn details about the Mexican gray wolf including appearance, habitat, family life, threats, and fun facts.
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Minnesota Zoo: Hawaiian Monk Seals
The Minnesota Zoo provides fun facts and statistics about Hawaiian monk seals. Learn what they eat, where they live, what they do, and conservation status.
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Minnesota Zoo: Fisher
The Minnesota Zoo provides fun facts and statistics about fishers. Learn what they eat, where they live, what they do, and conservation status.
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Minnesota Zoo: Dhole (Asian Wild Dog)
Get fun facts about dholes. Learn what they eat, where they live, what they do, and conservation status.
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San Francisco Zoo: Wolverine
Meet the wolverine, discover fascinating facts, and learn about their physical characteristics, diet, habitat, behavior, and conservation status.
Kidport
Kidport: Reference Library: Dinosaurs
A nicely illustrated and informative site on dinosaurs from the Cambrian period until the Quaternary period.
Earth Life
Earth Life: Mammals: Diet and Digestion
This site discusses the diet and digestion in all sorts of mammals, including herbivores, omnivores, and carnivores. Read about different kinds of animals and their different dietary preferences.
Treehut
Suzy's World: Eye
Find out how your eyes work and try an experiment involving a cartoon flip book.
Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian National Zoo: Meet Our Animals
This site from the National Zoological Park provides extensive information about many types of animals. Just click on the category you need. Includes pictures and live web cams.
Unique Australian Animals
Unique Australian Animals: Spotted Tailed Quoll
The world's second largest carnivorous marsupial, the spotted tailed quoll, is no bigger than a domestic cat and found only in Australia.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Energy in the Ecosystem
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart focuses on how plants and animals get energy and different habitats.
Other
Food Chains and Webs
A very informative site that discusses food chains and webs in detail. Not too complicated and fairly easy to understand, it also includes some pictures.
BBC
Bbc: Nature Wildfacts: Wildcat
This BBC webpage contains a detailed fact sheet and several colorful photos of the wildcat. Related articles can be found on this site as well.
Ducksters
Ducksters: Dinosaurs for Kids
Dinosaurs: Kids learn about these ancient animals that wondered the Earth thousands of years ago. We know about them from studying fossils.
PBS
Nh Pbs: Nature Works: Ecosystems
How would you define an ecosystem? Check out this educational resource to learn more about the living and nonliving parts of different ecosystems.
Science4Fun
Science4 Fun: Cat
Fun and interesting illustrated information on cats including appearance, diet, and habitat,