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Other

Ark Animal Tracks: Careers With Animals

For Students 9th - 10th
Vocational article about working as an animal trainer for both wild and domestic animals.
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Wild in the City

For Students 3rd - 8th
Learn about how wild parakeets have adapted to city life in this WILD TV video segment.
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Environmental Education for Kids

Eek!: Leave Animals in the Wild

For Students 9th - 10th
Discover what you need to know about what makes an animal wild, including the time and energy it takes to keep a wild animal, well, wild.
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Wild Kratts: All About Lizards Lesson Plan

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Students explore the diversity of lizards in terms of characteristics, behavior, and habitat. Activities feature five species of lizards and their special body structures needed for survival.
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Animal Shelter Photographer

For Students 3rd - 8th
In this WILD TV segment, a photographer helps find homes for animals up for adoption.
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A-Z Animals

A Z Animals: Animal Facts: African Wild Dog (Lycaon Pictus)

For Students 9th - 10th
Illustrated entry offers a discussion of the history, appearance, habitat, behavior, and diet of the African Wild Dog, with statistics.
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Royal Canadian Geographical Society

Canadian Geographic: Animal Facts: Wild Horse

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn fast facts, the physiology, habitats, behaviors and range of the horse.
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Animal Fact Guide

Animal Fact Guide: Lion

For Students 3rd - 8th
A reference source on the lion that features information on its physical characteristics, habitat (with a distribution map), diet, breeding patterns, unique traits and behavior, conservation status, and tips on what you can do to help.
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Animal Fact Guide

Animal Fact Guide: Bonobo

For Students 3rd - 8th
Where in the world can you see a bonobo in the wild? This reference site features information not only on the habitat of the bonobo but also its physical characteristics, diet, breeding patterns, unique traits and behavior, conservation...
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Nature: Cloud Age Four

For Students 9th - 10th
In this short Nature video, experience the environment of Cloud, a four-year old horse living in the wild. This is one in a series of three videos about Cloud. [2:23]
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A-Z Animals

A Z Animals: Animal Facts: Leopard Cat (Prionailurus Bengalensis)

For Students 9th - 10th
Explore the world of the Leopard Cat and gain a greater understanding of this wild cat through statistics and information on its appearance, habitat, behavior, diet, and more.
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PBS

Pbs Teachers: Scientific American: The New Zoos: Return to the Wild

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Explore the history of zoos, and design blueprints for an enriched "new zoo." Research genetic problems in captive animals.
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PBS

Pbs: Nature: Born to Be Wild, Polar Bears

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Research the diet, habitat and behavior of polar bears, and compare and contrast the issues surrounding polar bears in their environment with those of bears in the U.S. Rocky Mountains. Rewrite a human/bear encounter from the bear's...
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Colorado State University

Colorado State University Libraries: Garst [Wildlife] Photographic Collection

For Students 9th - 10th
Digitized collection, searchable by name, endangered species status, habitat, or continent, of over thirteen hundred wildlife photographs taken throughout the world during the filming of Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom television series....
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San Diego Zoo Global

San Diego Zoo: Hippotpotamus

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource presents detailed information about the hippotpotamus, including several photos and an audio clip.
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BBC

Bbc: Nature Wildfacts: Hippopotamus

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource provides detailed information about hippopotamuses.
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BBC

Bbc: Nature Wildfacts: Clouded Leopard

For Students 9th - 10th
To learn more about this particular leopard, examine these photos and study the detailed fact sheet.