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See also: Veterinary Medicine, Paleontology, Marine Biology,

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All About Animals - If you're 5 to 11 years old and want to learn some fascinating things about animals, you're in the right place.

Animal Exploration: A World to Discover - Have a look at animals in the world around us with information on their habitats, food, lifestyle, and life-cycle. Then choose one of the fun games to see how much you've learned.

Animal Tribe - Children will be fascinated for hours reading all about their favorite animal allies and creating their own unique totem pole as a classroom or free time activity.

National Geographic Animals and Nature Guide - Animal photos and wallpaper, nature news stories, environmental news stories, animal index.

Yellowstone National Park's Official Page for Kids & Teachers - Ever seen a Mooselope? How about a Bighorn Bison? Play the Antler/Horn Match Game and see what kinds of strange creatures you can make! Other games and coloring pages about the natural life of Yellowstone.

Zoobooks - A kid-friendly, animal oriented website, offering educational games and fascinating information about the animals kids love.

Wild Sanctuary - Take a sound safari and listen to the unusual sounds that animals make. Did you know a walrus can sound like a gong? Need to be able to download and play .wav files.

Classification of Plants & Animals - There are millions of different kinds of plants and animals in the world. In 1753, a scientist in Sweden named Carolus Linnaeus thought of an orderly system for classifying plants and animals.

Classifying Critters - These families belong to larger groups, too. Today, we'll look at members of a big group called the vertebrates. These are animals that have backbones. Do you have a backbone? Great. You're part of this group!

How do animals spend the winter? - People live in warm houses and wear heavy coats outside. Animals do many different, amazing things to get through the winter.

Jungle Walk - Learn about all animals, big and small. Wildlife in action through audio and video clips.

Kids' Castle - Animals - Visit these message boards to talk about interesting animals. Facts and photos and features all from the Smithsonian.

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The ARF Rescue Patrol - Through games, storybooks, lessons and animated comics children learn about caring for pets, how to be safe around other pets in the community and how to help animals in need.

Kids Korner - Learn how to take care of pets as well as how to stay safe around dogs. Printable worksheets. From the American Veterinary Medicine Association.

Pet Education - This site promotes the best possible pet care and provides the most current and accurate informaton possible throuhg in-depth articles on behavior, diseases, nutrition.

Pet of the Day - Every pet is special. Take a picture of your pet and nominate it as "Pet of the Day." Read about others pets.

Caring for Hampsters - This website is all about hamsters with information on hamster care ranging from feeding, cleaning, taming, breeding, etc.. but also includes unique homemade toys, a large picture gallery, postcard service, message forum and background centre.

Rattie Mom - Explore this site for great tips about basic rat care.

Seagull's Guinea Pig Compendium - The focus of this site is guinea pig owners the knowledge they need to help their pets attain excellent health.

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Farm Animals - For kids about 5 to 7 years old. Many activities including matching games, word searches and puzzles.

Have A Cow , Dude - This is a family dairy farm in Kentucky. The cows are real and the records on them are accurate. They are tested monthly and that is when the newsletter is sent out. The main goal of this website is to teach kids more about a farmers life, the good and the bad and maybe have a little fun in the process.

Breeds of Livestock - This site provides an educational and informational resource on breeds of livestock throughout the world. From the Department of Animal Science - Oklahoma State University.

Fun Farm Sounds - Here are some animals you might find at Farmland. Click on the picture of the animal you want to hear, and listen.

Pig Farm Electronic Field Trip - Learn about the swine industry without leaving your desk. Visit a real, working pig farm in Hardin County, Kentucky via your computer. Learn what makes Kentucky so good for raising pigs and other livestock, what a typical day on a pig farm is like, how a veterinarian clips needle teeth, and a little about the life cycle of swine.

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Animals Online - Birds as well as other mammals have been being banded for years. Now they are being decked out with special radio transmitters which record their every move and transmit it instantly back to researchers.

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Ranger Rick's Kid Zone - Loads of ideas for attracting wildlife to your yard and studying the creatures that come.

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JungleWalk.com Lesson Plans - These lesson plans address various animal related topics for different grade levels to help teachers and students. They have been created using standard school curriculum.

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Nature: Puzzles & Fun - Flash interactive multimedia adventures into the world of nature. From KQED and PBS.

Switcheroo Zoo - Switch the animals' heads, legs and tails to make new creatures at this surrealistic virtual zoo.

Where Am I Hiding? - A site for very small children who are still big enough to use a mouse. Try to find and click on the partially hidden animal asked for. If correct, you'll find out more about it.

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Yuckiest Site on the Internet - Burps, spit, worms and bugs. All about these yucky things and then some. Totally gross.

Banana Slugs - Banana Slugs are Mollusks, which means they are soft-bodied with no visible skeleton. They also belong to the class Gastropoda, which can be recognized by having a muscular foot, a mantle with a cavity, a meaty hump on their back, and a radula (or sand-paper-like grinding mouth parts).

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Bats Bats Everywhere! - Find anything you need to know about bats here.

Echo the Bat - A nice story which takes you along as a baby bat begins life.

Small Economy Bat House Plans - If you'd like to observe bats and also get rid of mosquitoes, you may want to build one of these homes to attract a few bats to your back yard.

Bat Page Game Room - Many games to play at this site including puzzles, word searches, jigsaw puzzles and more.

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Moose World - Kristine Bontaites is the moose biologist for the state of New Hampshire. She'll answer just about any question you might have. Lots of good photos of moose, too.

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Carson & Barnes Circus Elephant Quiz - After reading about our elephant care, see if you know the answers to the questions in the red circles.

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Turtle S.H.E.L.L. Tortue - Games for kids and things to read about the dangers turtles face. En Français

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Brutus, the Wombat - Every now and then something (in my household it is usually either furry or feathery and smells like it is in urgent need of a bath) unexpected enters your life and somehow changes it forever. In 1988, only days before Christmas we "inherited" a young wombat named Brutus. 

Overland Australia: creepers + crawlies - It appears some teachers took a road trip around Australia, took a lot of photos of interesting animals, wrote up about them and added some project ideas.

Russell The Wombat's Burrow - G'day..my name is Russell and I am a common wombat who has been released back into the Australian bush. Welcome to my burrow (home page). Come in and have a dig!

Wombania's Wombat Information Center - Jam-packed with wombat facts and includes virtually everything you need to know about native Australian wombats. It has information on the wombat, its behavior, diet, habitat, and life cycle.

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Koko For Kids - Fascinated by the thought of talking to gorillas? Come meet Koko, a gorilla who uses American Sign Language.