Animal Resources on the WWW

Note: parents and teachers can help young learners to locate information using the following home pages

Animal Adaptations What are Animal Adaptations? http://widgeon.com/Wilson/Grade4/Definition.html http://www.students.dsu.edu/birkela/Science/animal_adaptations.htm Animal Adaptations http://www.uen.org/utahlink/activities/view_activity.cgi?activity_id=4750 Animal Adaptations Web Quest http://widgeon.com/Wilson/Grade4/SelectedAnimals.html Animal Adaptations Game http://ecokids.earthday.ca/pub/eco_info/topics/climate/adaptations/index.cfm

EnhantedLearning  http://www.enchantedlearning.com/coloring/ ~ You will see a rainbow colored alphabet. Click on the letter of the animal. Scroll to find.

The Wild Ones Animal Index  http://www.thewildones.org/animal.html ~ Each article describes the animal, its habits, habitat, threats to survival, and the work being done on the animals behalf. Where possible you will also find an e-mail link to a conservation biologist working with that species.

Virtual Zoo http://library.thinkquest.org/11922/index.htm?tqskip1=1&tqtime=0924 ~ Our zoo is a powerful educational tool which serves to heighten the general public's awareness of animals throughout the world. It also informs all students accessing our website about the alarming rate of human expansion into various animals' habitats.

Endangered or Extinct Animals http://www.nature.ca/notebooks/english/enexpg.htm

U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service: Threatened and Endangered Animals and Plants  http://endangered.fws.gov/wildlife.html ~ Scroll half way down the page and enter in the common or scientific name of the species you are interested in learning about at this time.

Zoos with all kinds of animal information
	Sea World /Busch Gardens Animal Bytes http://www.seaworld.org/AnimalBytes/animal_bytes.html
To learn about your favorite animal, click on the letter of the alphabet.  You will see a menu at the bottom for hunting, eat, multiply, live, etc.  Click for more information. Be sure to click on the "pet me" icon, and find some additional information. San Diego Zoo Animals at Large http://www.sandiegozoo.org/apps/animals/index.html	Endangered Species HotList of Sources http://www.endangeredspecie.com/
Indianapolis Zoo Animal Facts (enter the name of the animal in the search box) http://www.indyzoo.com/facts/
Oakland Zoo Animals A-Z http://www.oaklandzoo.org/atoz/atoz.html	Oregon Zoo About Our Zoo ­ From Antelopes to Zebras http://www.zooregon.org/cards/index.htm
Philadelphia Zoo Animal Fact Sheets http://www.phillyzoo.org/pz-alist.htm	Pittsburgh Zoo http://zoo.pgh.pa.us/wildlife_search.asp