This website is a comprehensive reference for the animal kingdom. Here you'll find information about many interesting species. Articles include: the brown basilisk lizard or "Jesus lizard," famous for its ability to run so fast that it appears to walk on water; the duck-billed platypus, the world's most unique mammal; and the flying squirrel. Of course, you'll also find information about hundreds of common and not-so-common species of birds, reptiles, amphibians, mammals, insects, and fish.
Each section of the website also includes a list of animal species found in various climates and biomes, as well as pronunciation guide for scientific names - like this guide to scientific names for spiders and insects.
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African Treefrogs: Hyperoliidae - Physical Characteristics, Habitat, Diet, Behavior And Reproduction, Conservation Status, Bubbling Kassina (kassina Senegalensis): Species Accounts - GEOGRAPHIC RANGE, AFRICAN TREEFROGS AND PEOPLE, American Tailed Caecilians: Rhinatrematidae - Physical Characteristics, Marbled Caecilian (epicrionops Marmoratus): Species Account - GEOGRAPHIC RANGE, HABITAT, DIET, BEHAVIOR AND REPRODUCTION, AMERICAN TAILED CAECILIANS AND PEOPLE, CONSERVATION STATUS, Amero-Australian Treefrogs: Hylidae - Physical Characteristics, Habitat, Diet, Behavior And Reproduction, Amero-australian Treefrogs And People - GEOGRAPHIC RANGE…
Albatrosses: Diomedeidae - Physical Characteristics, Habitat, Behavior And Reproduction, Chatham Mollymawk (diomedea Cauta Eremita): Species Accounts - GEOGRAPHIC RANGE, DIET, ALBATROSSES AND PEOPLE, CONSERVATION STATUS, Anis Cuckoos and Roadrunners: Cuculiformes - Physical Characteristics, Behavior And Reproduction, Cuculiformes And People, Common Cuckoo (cuculus Canorus): Species Accounts - GEOGRAPHIC RANGE, HABITAT, DIET, CONSERVATION STATUS, Ant Thrushes: Formicariidae - Physical Characteristics, Diet, Behavior And Reproduction, Conservation Status, Barred Antshrike (thamnophilus Doliatus): Species Accounts - GEOGRAPHIC RANGE, HABITAT, ANT THRUSHES AND PEOPLE…
African Burrowing Snakes: Atractaspididae - Physical Characteristics, Diet, Behavior And Reproduction, African Burrowing Snakes And People, Southern Burrowing Asp (atractaspis Bibronii): Species Account - GEOGRAPHIC RANGE, HABITAT, CONSERVATION STATUS, African Side-Necked Turtles: Pelomedusidae - Physical Characteristics, Diet, Behavior And Reproduction, Conservation Status, Helmeted Turtle (pelomedusa Subrufa): Species Account - GEOGRAPHIC RANGE, HABITAT, AFRICAN SIDE-NECKED TURTLES AND PEOPLE, Afro-American River Turtles: Podocnemididae - Physical Characteristics, Behavior And Reproduction, Conservation Status, South American River Turtle (podocnemis Expansa): Species Account - GEOGRAPHIC RANGE, HABITAT, DIET, AFRO-AMERICAN RIVER TURTLES AND PE…
Anglerfishes: Lophiiformes - Physical Characteristics, Behavior And Reproduction, Sargassumfish (histrio Histrio): Species Accounts, Monkfish (lophius Americanus): Species Accounts - GEOGRAPHIC RANGE, HABITAT, DIET, ANGLERFISHES AND PEOPLE, CONSERVATION S, Basses Perches and Relatives: Perciformes - Physical Characteristics, Behavior And Reproduction, Perciformes And People, Conservation Status - GEOGRAPHIC RANGE, HABITAT, DIET, Beardfishes: Polymixiiformes - PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS, GEOGRAPHIC RANGE, HABITAT, DIET, BEHAVIOR AND REPRODUCTION, BEARDFISHES AND PEOPLE, CONSERVATION STATUS, Bichirs: Polypteriformes - Physical Characteristics, Diet, Behavior And Reproduction, Bichir (polypterus Ornatipinnis): Species Account - GEOGRAPHIC RANGE, HABITAT, BICHIRS AND PEOPLE, CONSERVATION STATUS…
Angel Insects or Zorapterans: Zoraptera - Physical Characteristics, Behavior And Reproduction, Angel Insects And People, Hubbard's Angel Insect (zorotypus Hubbardi): Species Accounts - GEOGRAPHIC RANGE, HABITAT, DIET, CONSERVATION STATUS, Ants Sawflies Bees and Wasps: Hymenoptera - Physical Characteristics, Diet, Behavior And Reproduction, Hymenopterans And People, Conservation Status, Honeybee (apis Mellifera): Species Accounts - GEOGRAPHIC RANGE, HABITAT, Barklice Psocids and Book Lice: Psocoptera - Physical Characteristics, Behavior And Reproduction, Book Louse (liposcelis Bostrychophila): Species Accounts - GEOGRAPHIC RANGE, HABITAT, DIET, PSOCIDS AND PEOPLE, CONSERVATION STATUS…
Acoels: Acoela - Physical Characteristics, Behavior And Reproduction, No Common Name (convolutriloba Longifissura): Species Account - GEOGRAPHIC RANGE, HABITAT, DIET, ACOELS AND PEOPLE, CONSERVATION STATUS, Anemones and Corals: Anthozoa - Physical Characteristics, Diet, Behavior And Reproduction, Anemones, Corals, And People, Giant Green Anemone (anthopleura Xanthogrammica): Species Accounts - GEOGRAPHIC RANGE, HABITAT, CONSERVATION STATUS, Anoplans and Enoplans: Nemertea - Physical Characteristics, Behavior And Reproduction, Anoplans, Enoplans, And People, No Common Name (oerstedia Dorsalis): Species Account - GEOGRAPHIC RANGE, HABITAT, DIET, CONSERVATION STATUS…
Aardvark: Tubulidentata - Physical Characteristics, Habitat, Diet, Behavior And Reproduction - GEOGRAPHIC RANGE, AARDVARKS AND PEOPLE, CONSERVATION STATUS, Aardwolf and Hyenas: Hyaenidae - Physical Characteristics, Behavior And Reproduction, Hyaenids And People, Spotted Hyena (crocuta Crocuta:): Species Accounts - GEOGRAPHIC RANGE, HABITAT, DIET, CONSERVATION STATUS, African Mole-Rats: Bathyergidae - Physical Characteristics, Habitat, Behavior And Reproduction, Damaraland Mole-rat (cryptomys Damarensis): Species Accounts - GEOGRAPHIC RANGE, DIET, AFRICAN MOLE-RATS AND PEOPLE, CONSERVATION STATUS…
Amphionids: Amphionidacea - Physical Characteristics, Behavior And Reproduction - GEOGRAPHIC RANGE, HABITAT, DIET, AMPHIONIDS AND PEOPLE, CONSERVATION STATUS, Amphipods: Amphipoda - Physical Characteristics, Behavior And Reproduction, Conservation Status, Skeleton Shrimp (caprella Californica): Species Accounts - GEOGRAPHIC RANGE, HABITAT, DIET, AMPHIPODS AND PEOPLE, Anaspidaceans: Anaspidacea - Physical Characteristics, Behavior And Reproduction, Anaspidaceans And People, No Common Name (anaspides Tasmaniae): Species Account - GEOGRAPHIC RANGE, HABITAT, DIET, CONSERVATION STATUS, Aplacophorans: Aplacophora - Physical Characteristics, Diet, No Common Name (spiomenia Spiculata): Species Account - GEOGRAPHIC RANGE, HABITAT, BEHAVIOR AND REPRODUCTION, APLACOPHORANS AND PEOPLE, CONSERVATION STATUS…
abnormal behaviour, acclimation, acclimatization, action, action theory, active sleep, activity, adaptation, advertisement, aestivation, aggregation, aggression, agonistic behaviour, alarm calls, alarm responses, alertness, allogrooming, alpha male, altricial young, altruism, ambivalent behaviour, ambush behaviour, amensalism, anachoresis, animal economics, anthropomorphism, anti-predator behaviour, antithesis, anxiety, apathy, aposematism, appeasement, appetite, appetitive behaviour, approach–avoidance conflict, arousal, assessment, association, asymmetric contest, asymmetric games, attack, attention…
copulation, copying, cost, cost function, cost of changing, courtship, courtship feeding, crypsis, cue strength, cultural behaviour, curiosity, daily routine, Charles Robert Darwin Biography, (1809–82), Darwinian fitness, death feigning, deceit, decision-making, defence, deimatic display, demand function, development, dialect, dilution effect, discrimination, disinhibition, dispersion, displacement activity, display, distraction display, distress, disturbance effect, domestication, dominance, dormancy, dreaming, drinking, drive, echolocation, ecology, economics…
hunger, hunting, hypnosis, imitation, imprinting, incentive, incest, inclusive fitness, incubation, individual distance, innate behaviour, insight learning, instinct, instrumental conditioning, intelligent behaviour, intentional behaviour, isolating mechanisms, juvenile behaviour, kin recognition, kin selection, kinaesthetic senses, kinesis, klinokinesis, klinotaxis, knowledge, landmarks, language, latent learning, law of heterogeneous summation, learning, leisure, lek, locomotion, Konrad Zacharias Lorenz Biography, (1903–89), lunar rhythms, magnetic orientation, male rivalry, manipulation, mate selection…
preening, prey recognition, problem solving, procedural knowledge, pseudoconditioning, punishment, purposive behaviour, rationality, reafference, reciprocal altruism, recognition, redirected behaviour, reflexes, regulators, reinforcement, reinforcement schedules, reinforcer, releaser, representations, reproductive behaviour, reproductive isolation, reproductive success, reproductive value, resilience, response, reward, rhythms, ritualization, scent marking, schooling, search image, searching, selective breeding, self-awareness, sense organs, sensitive periods, sensitization, sensory receptors, sensory systems, sexual behaviour, sexual cycle…
