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National Geographic - Animals
Sections include: Amphibians ; Birds ; Bugs ; Fish ; Invertebrates ; Mammals Reptiles.
[Animal Law] Michigan State University College of Law - Animal Legal & Historical Center
"There are presently over 560 full text cases (US, Historical and UK) and 894 U.S. statutes fully available on the site, with Michigan and California being very comprehensive. More importantly, we have over 30 topics that give the viewer directions and comprehensive explanations on some of the more interesting issues of the animal area."
Annelid Resources - (dead link)
"A guide to information on annelids, and current worm research and researchers."
Sections include: People ; Discussions ; Meetings ; Bibliography ; Faunal Lists ; Biographies ; Phylogeny.
By Geoff Read, Marine Biologists in Wellington, New Zealand
[Ants] Ant Database - (dead link)
Maintained by Ted Schultz, Dept. of Entomology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution
[Ants] Ants of Borneo: A Virtual Museum of Natural History
"This website is dedicated to the ants of Poring, Kinabalu National Park, Sabah, Malaysia, a tropical rainforest with the world's highest ant diversity: 642 species of ants from 82 genera and 8 subfamilies of the Formicidae have been found there. In our virtual museum of natural history you find pictures of Aenictinae, Cerapachyine, Dorylinae, Dolichoderinae, Formicinae, Myrmicinae, Ponerinae, and Pseudomyrmicinae.
By Martin Pfeiffer, University of Ulm
[Ants] AntWeb
"Currently AntWeb contains information on the ant faunas of California and Madagascar, and global coverage of all ant genera...AntWeb provides tools for exploring the diversity and identification of ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)."
- California Academy of Sciences
[Ants] National Public Radio (NPR) - The Connection
Antlion Pit: A Doodlebug Anthology
"Inside you will find exclusive videos of antlion feeding behavior and metamorphosis, as well as information on how and where to find antlions. You can also explore areas not normally associated with entomology, such as the roles antlions and other creatures play in human culture and imagination."
By Mark Swanson
Autodax: Salamander Feeding Movies - (dead link)
"This website gives a sampling of the diverse feeding strategies used by salamanders. Feeding in salamanders is usually completed in only a small fraction of a second. The movies on this site were made using high-speed video cameras running at up to 1000 pictures per second."
By Stephen M. Deban, Dept. of Biology, University of Utah
BBC - Nature - The Life of Mammals
Web site companion to the TV series.
"David Attenborough's latest series presents the biggest ever wildlife series devoted to mammals. It features many of the planet's most fascinating species, including ourselves."
Episodes include: A Winning Design ; Insect Hunters ; Plant Predators ; Chisellers ; Meat Eaters ; Opportunists ; Return to the Water ; Life in the Trees ; Social Climbers ; Food for Thought.
[Bears] Polar Bear Central
Sections include: Learn About Polar Bears ; WWF at Work in the Arctic ; Multimedia Gallery ; Polar Postcards.
From WWF-Central
[Bears] Polar Bear Tracker
Sections include: Where are They? ; About Polar Bears ; Polar Bears at Risk.
- WWF
[Beetles] The Beetles of the Virgin Islands
"These pages are web gateways to an Oracle database containing the data on the beetle fauna of the Virgin Islands. The information itself is the result of years of collecting and organizing effort by Mike Ivie (Montana State University). The pages you see here were created by Norm Johnson (Ohio State University)."
[Birds] Bird Prints - The Complete Morris's British Birds 1891
www.BirdCheck.co.uk
Scanned by Ash. Midcalf
[Birds] BirdCentral.net
"To promote education and enjoyment of birds. To be a source of information and a platform for K-12 students to share their interest, work, and questions concerning birds. To create science curriculum that promotes experience-based learning."
Includes photos and natural history of 406 of the 600+ species found in the lower 48 states, lesson plans, themes, and a glossary.
By Jim Rosso
[Birds] Birdingonthe.Net
Birding for the 21st Century
Sections include: Mailing Lists ; Links ; Galleries ; Species Lists
[Birds] BirdLife International
"...is a global alliance of conservation organisations working together for the world's birds and people."
- Global Seabird Conservation Programme - (dead link)
Sections include: Conservation ; Pollution ; News ; Longlining ; Products.
- Threatened Seabird - Longline Fisheries Interaction Database - (dead link)
"This database aims to highlight the interactions of threatened seabirds and longline fisheries. It provides distribution maps for seabirds threatened by longline fishing overlaid with maps of longline fishing effort in the southern oceans."
[Birds] BIRDNET
The Ornithological Information Source
[Birds] Birds: Bellwethers of Watershed Health
"This module will introduce how birds respond to changes in watersheds, and how landscape conditions can be managed to help birds and improve overall watershed health."
By Lynne Trulio, PhD., San Jose State University
[Birds] BirdSource
Birding with a Purpose
"...is an interactive website where the enthusiasm of birders is combined with state-of-the-art technology to promote conservation and environmental learning."
[Birds] Harmony - John James Audubon - The Birds of America
"A multimedia presentation combining original engravings, music and poetry. Catalog of 435 engravings."
- Musée de la civilisation in Quebec City
[Birds] PBS - Nature - Extraordinary Birds
Sections include: Feathered Friends ; Winged Warriors ; Avian Awareness ; Resources ; Teacher's Guide.
[Birds] Rose-ringed Parakeets
The Status and Distribution of Rose-ringed Parakeets in Bakersfield, California
By Alison Sheehey, CSU, Bakersfield and Barbara Mansfield, Kern Audubon Society
[Birds] Visual Resources for Ornithology (VIREO)
"We now can declare once again that we have all of the North American birds on film."
Includes: Slides for Publication & Reference ; Slides for Lectures ; Contributing Images ; Image Gallery.
Academy of Natural Sciences
Blue Crab Archives
Sections include: Identification ; Anatomy ; Life Cycle ; Crab News ; Discussion Forum ; Glossary ; Links ; Mating ; Molting ; Crab Industry ; Regional Information ; Crab Fossil ; Resources ; Crab Diseases.
By Steve Zinski
Bugbios
Insects on the Web: Shameless Promotion of Insect Appreciation
"This site aims to help you really see insects for the miniature marvels they represent and to understand how intertwined our cultures have become with these alien creatures."
By Dexter Sear
[Butterflies] Butterflies North and South
"This website was produced by Museums and affiliated organizations in Canada and Peru, to give you a glimpse of the butterfly and moth wonders just waiting to be seen and appreciated."
Sections include: Gallery ; Conservation ; Teachers & Games ; Questions & Answers ; Amateurs' Corner ; Gardening ; Links.
[Butterflies] The Butterfly Lab
An Online Interactive by The Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum
"...allows visitors the opportunity to explore The Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum's Judy Istock Butterfly Haven, located in Chicago, IL...In the lab you will learn how to manage the lives of over two hundred butterflies. This includes breeding, feeding and maintaining the caterpillars and butterflies within the Haven's artificial environment."
- Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum
[Butterflies] Lepidopterists' Society - (dead link)
"Butterflies and moths are the focus of this international organization bringing together professional scientists and amateur enthusiasts to study and enjoy the Lepidoptera>
Canadian Museum of Nature
- Natural History Notebooks
"...you'll find lots of fascinating facts about 246 animal species. You'll also learn about the amazing diversity of life on earth (both past and present), and why it's important to protect that diversity...The text was originally published in our Natural History Notebook series (1977-81)."
Checklist of the Collembola of the World
"The main purpose of this checklist is to resolve synonymy related problems. Typical example: given a taxon name, verify whether or not it is currently valid and if it is not valid what is then its currently valid name...This work is updated regularly. This is a provisional edition that contains still a lot of mistakes."
By Frans Janssens
Chemical Ecology of Insects
Sections include: Free Software ; Research on Insects ; Interactive Learning ; Databases and Information ; Links.
By John Byers, USDA-ARS, Phoenix
Chrysis.net
A Web Resource about Hymenoptera Chrysididae & Macrophotography
Sections include: Intro ; Database of the Italian Chrysididae ; Researches & Articles ; Image Gallery ; Photo Resources ; Links.
Coelacanth: The Fish out of Time
"Once thought to have gone extinct with the dinosaurs, the Coelacanth was "discovered" alive and well in 1938. Read all about it- including the latest efforts to protect the creature...[Includes] information, pictures, animations, and the Coelashop. This is the web site of the Coelacanth Rescue Mission, a project under the direction of Jerome F. Hamlin to reduce Coelacanth fatalities."
Crayfish Home - (dead link) Includes: Photographs ; Conservation ; Phylogeny ; Identification ; Lists ; Bibliography ; Other Crustacean Sites ; Links.
Monte L. Bean Life Science Museum - (dead link), Brigham Young University
Crocodile Specialist Group (CSG)
"Bringing alligators, caimans, crocodiles, and gharials back from the edge of extinction and returning them to former abundance is one of the true success stories in international wildlife conservation, a success story that owes much of its credit to the Crocodile Specialist Group (CSG), an international network of people working to conserve the world's 23 species of crocodilians."
Crocodilians: Natural History & Conservation
Includes the Species List, Biology Database, Internet Resources, and a fascinating Communication section where you can "Hear juvenile distress calls, threatening adult hisses, and courtship bellows."
By Adam Britton
Declining Amphibian Populations Task Force (DAPTF) - Home Pages
"Established in 1991, the DAPTF consists of a network of over 3,000 scientists and conservationists belonging to national and regional working groups which now cover more than 90 countries around the world. The mission of the DAPTF is to determine the nature, extent and causes of declines of amphibians throughout the world, and to promote means by which declines can be halted or reversed."
- Froglog - (dead link)
Newsletter of the Declining Amphibian Populations Task Force of the World Conservation Union's Survival Commission
Echinoid Home Page
"The primary purpose of the site, however, is to provide a taxonomic resource for the scientific community in which the genera and higher taxa of echinoid can be simply and rapidly identified. There are currently over 200 pages of detailed information about echinoid taxa."
The Natural History Museum of London
[Elephants] African Elephant Specialist Group (AfESG)
Sections include: African Elephant Database ; Pachyderm ; Human-Elephant Conflict ; African Elephant Bibliography ; Tools for Elephant Management & Research.
- The World Conservation Union (IUCN)
Embryology Tutorial
"This tutorial is part of an ongoing project designed to implement multimedia and computer-based learning materials in the university undergraduate classroom...is meant to supplement the presentation of standard videotape, laser video, digitized video and animation sequences in the traditional lecture period."
By Jeff Hardin, Dept. of Zoology, University of Wisconsin
European Butterflies
In German or English
By Mario Maier
[Fish] University of Texas at Austin - Texas Natural History Collections
- Ichthyology (Fishes)
"More than 32,664 jars of specimens estimated to contain more than 746,900 specimens. More than half from Texas freshwaters, representing 192 counties. Database searchable online. Species distribution maps and fish pictures available."
Florida Panther Net
Fewer than 50 Florida panthers remain.
"Panther Net is a project of the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission's Advisory Council on Environmental Education."
Freshwater Jellyfish!
Sections include: Natural History ; Where Do They Live ; Pictures ; References ; FAQ.
By Dr. Terry Peard, Dept. of Biology, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Michael Thom and Gary Buffone.
Guam Brown Tree Snake Control in Area 50 - (dead link)
"Area 50 Brown Tree Snake Removal Experiment plus reader forum and observations concerning control, behavior and latest research. Guam brown tree snake expandable images. numerous links. Updated Frequently. Guam brown tree snake control and breeding/release of endangered bird (Guam rail)."
By Allan Searle
[Herpetology] University of Texas at Austin - Texas Natural History Collections
- Herpetology
"Includes 63,000 specimens of reptiles and amphibians: frogs, salamanders, caecilians, lizards, snakes, amphisbaenians, tuataras, crocodilians, and turtles (not including 12,000 recently acquired Texas Tech specimens). Database searchable online."
[Insects] Insectclopedia
A general "research portal." Topics include Species ; Research ; Insect Control ; Communication ; Resources ; Schools ; Associations ; Identification ; Hobbies.
[Insects] Insects and Entomology Resources Online - (dead link)
A reference source of South African, especially Western Cape, insects and spiders.
- South African Museum
[Insects] Iowa State University Entomology Image Gallery
Sections include: Beetles ; Lice ; Butterflies, Moths, and Caterpillars ; Plant Diseases and Damage ; Cicadas and Leafhoppers ; Plants ; Flies and Mosquitoes ; Ticks ; Grasshoppers and Crickets ; True Bugs.
[Insects] University of Minnesota Department of Entomology
- Insect Collection
Sections include: Collection Info ; People ; Projects ; Systematic Databases ; Visits & Tours ; Links.
International Wolf Center
- Bibliography of Wolf Resources Search Engine
"This search engine allows you to search a database that contains over 1600 wolf resource records; including books, journal articles and conference proceedings. The database is a first attempt by the International Wolf Center to compile available wolf resources and is not complete. The database will be updated quarterly."
Jaguars: Phantoms of the Night
Multimedia site from National Geographic Online
JungleWalk.com (K12)
"We have a large compilation of links to animal movie and animal sound clips, categorized and arranged for easy reference. Learn about many different animals, big and small. Watch movies of protozoan animal cells and cheetahs hunting, explore bird sounds, and hear blue whale songs, right here at JungleWalk - your virtual Animal Encyclopaedia."
Lepidopterists' Society - (dead link)
"Butterflies and moths are the focus of this international organization bringing together professional scientists and amateur enthusiasts to study and enjoy the Lepidoptera>
List of the World's Bumble Bees
London Museum of Natural History
[Moths] Lepidopterists' Society - (dead link)
"Butterflies and moths are the focus of this international organization bringing together professional scientists and amateur enthusiasts to study and enjoy the Lepidoptera>
Nature - Alien Empire
"This special multimedia Web companion to the three-week [PBS] NATURE miniseries takes you into the bizarre, fascinating world of insects, with amazing graphics, sound and animation, enhanced video, and activities for kids. Read the articles to learn more about how insects reproduce, live together in society, migrate, and battle for survival. Check out our animated musical multimedia presentations on monarch butterflies, mayflies, and bee anatomy and behavior. View video clips from the programs, including an enhanced streaming video clip for higher-speed visitors. Solve our Insect Scramble puzzles -- we've created one for each section. Check out our list of insect resources in print and on the Web. And in a fun activity for kids, print out our cricket and butterfly mask patterns, then follow the directions to make masks you can really wear!"
- PBS Online
Nomina Insecta Nearctica
A Checklist of the Insects of North America
"...is a complete synonymical checklist of the approximately 90,000 species of insects of North America north of Mexico published by Entomological Information Services in 1996 and 1997 in four volumes and a CD-ROM. An abbreviated version of this checklist is now available on Nearctica. The list contains all of the species of insects of North America with the synonyms removed."
[Octopus] TONMO - The Octopus News Magazine Online
"Your Octopus, Squid and Cephalopod Information Center"
Sections include: Ceph Care ; Science ; Fossils ; Culture ; Celphalofun ; Gallery ; Octo DB ; Calendar ; Web Links.
Odonata of North America
"This list, including English names originally proposed in 1978 and now revised several times, is offered as both a current North American check-list and a list of English names. The English names were generated by Dennis R. Paulson and Sidney W. Dunkle (a few were already in use) and approved, with some modification, by the membership of the Dragonfly Society of the Americas."
Provided by the University of Puget Sound Slater Museum of Natural History.
PBS NATURE - Katrina's Animal Rescue
Sections include: Photos ; Ask the Rescuers ; Meet the Rescuers ; Health Effects ; Resources.
PBS - NOVA Online - Tales from the Hive (June 2002) [K12]
"In this NOVA program, our cinematographer literally filmed inside a hive and followed bees in flight to capture closeups to honeybee behavior."
Sections include: Anatomy of a Hive ; The Buzz About Bees ; Dances With Bees ; The Making Of ; Resources ; Transcript.
Pelagic Shark Research Foundation
Sections include: Overview ; Biology ; Monterey Bay ; Images ; Conservation ; Education ; Staff ; Sponsors ; Video.
The Penguin Page
Sections include: Established Species ; Natural Evolution ; Behaviour - Ethology ; Biology Correlates ; Predator - Prey ; Miscellaneous ; Deconstructing Penguin Myths.
Phylum Ctenophora: List of All Valid Species Names
"Because the scientific literature on the Ctenophora is widely dispersed and much of it is difficult to locate, I have compiled a list of all classes, orders, families, genera and species of ctenophores that seem to be in use at the present time. This list is the result of a rather extensive search of the literature, combined with a little independent thinking."
Maintained by Claudie E. Mills, Friday Harbor Laboratories and the Dept. of Zoology, University of Washington
Primates - See our separate Primate Studies page.
Robber Flies (Asilidae)
Insecta: Diptera
Sections include: Information ; Keys ; Database ; News ; New Literature ; Projects ; Addresses ; Links.
By Fritz Geller-Grimm and Torsten Dikow
Salmon - See our separate Salmon Studies page.
Sea Urchin Embryology (SUE) (English or Spanish...and some French)
"...laboratory modules using sea urchin eggs and a web site developed by teachers and Stanford University researchers."
Sections include: Development ; SUE News ; Overheads ; Glossary ; Reference ; Skills ; Classic ; Safety ; Core Lab ; Primary Labs ; Support Lessons ; Information ; Curiosity ; Extended Research.
[Sharks] Biology of the Great White Shark - (dead link)
Sections include: Overview ; Adaptations ; Evolution & Classification ; Anatomy ; Physiology ; Sensory Biology ; Brian and Cognition ; Feeding ; Attacks ; Ecology & Conservation ; Research & Ecotourism.
By Rick Martin
- Reef Quest
[Sharks] Fiona's Shark Mania
An interesting general interest site with a view towards shark conservation.
[Sharks] PBS - NOVA - Island of the Sharks
"Costa Rica's Cocos Island boasts more sharks per cubic yard of water than perhaps any other place on the planet, including whitetip reef sharks, 40-foot whale sharks, and hammerheads that school by the hundreds. On this latest NOVA/PBS Online dventure, we joined Howard and Michele Hall, two of the world's leading underwater filmmakers, as they dove into this shark-infested paradise to shoot an IMAX large-format film."
Sections include: Resources ; Text Sharks ; Cocos Island ; Sharkmasters ; World of Sharks ; Dispatches.
[Sharks] Sharkology (English or Svenska)
"This page contains information on shark ecology, biology and behavior, plus lots of links. The purpose is to be a helping tool for those trying to gain insight in the mysterious and fascinating world of sharks."
Sections include: Biology ; Species ; Faq ; Sharks on the Web.
South African Museum - (dead link)
- Insects and Entomology Resources Online - (dead link)
A reference source of South African, especially Western Cape, insects and spiders.
- Shark Research Centre - (dead link)
[Stingrays] National Geographic - Animals
Sections include: Amphibians ; Birds ; Bugs ; Fish ; Invertebrates ; Mammals Reptiles.
[Tigers] The Tiger Foundation - (dead link)
"Our mandate is straightforward: To create one of the world's most complete and informative sites about tigers; an interactive portal where you can learn, educate your children, voice your opinions, and even get directly involved in wild tiger conservation - in short, a means through which you can make a difference!
The Thylacine Museum
A Natural History of the Thylacinidae
Sections include: Introducing the Thylacine ; The Natural History of Thylacinus Cynocephalus ; An Examination of the Thylacine Skull ; The Thylacine Films ; Some Thylacine Relics ; Various Other Thylacine Topics.
By C. Campbell
[Turtles] National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
UKmoths
"This web site is based mainly around my experiences with moths here in the North West of England, UK. Initially, this site consisted mainly of lists and photos of moths caught in my garden near Rochdale, Greater Manchester, using a Mercury Vapour moth trap. The site is now expanding to include moths found further afield in Britain.
By Ian Kimber
UN - World Conservation Monitoring Centre
- Biodiversity Bulletin
Themes include: Priorities for Biodiversity in the Tropics ; Tropical Montane Cloud Forests: An Urgent Priority for Conservation ; Patterns of Biodiversity in Arctic Birds.
Vancouver Aquarium - (dead link)
- AquaNews - A73 [Springer] Released into Home Waters
- Marine Mammal Rescue and Rehabilitation - (dead link)
[Whales] National Wildlife Magazine
Publication of the National Wildlife Federation
- Orcas on the Edge
"A brutal combination of pollution, global warming, declining prey and heavy boat traffic is sending the Puget Sound orca population to new lows."
By Ken Olsen, Oct/Nov 2006
[Whales] ORCA LIVE
"...one of our specific aims is to relay live sound and images of the orcas in the natural environment of Hanson Island, Canada..."
Sections include: Live ; Community ; Highlights ; Study.
"OrcaLive Highlights are edited from imagery photographed at our live webcasting base on Cracroft Point."
[Whales] WhaleNet
"...offers students and teachers curriculum resources and support, a source of data for interdisciplinary classroom activities, and interactive informational support through WhaleNet utilizing telecommunications...WhaleNet provides a system where students, teachers, and researchers collect and then compile their data on the WhaleNet server. The data is then shared, via WhaleNet, with schools for interdisciplinary curricular activities and student research in their respective classrooms world-wide."
By J. Michael Williamson, Wheelock College in Boston and others.
[Whales] Seattle Post-Intelligencer Special Report - The Sound of Broken Promises
"This six-part special report both chronicles the long life of Granny, the respected elder in her Northwest orca pod, and examines the weak regulations, spotty enforcement and political foot-dragging that have put local orcas in jeopardy. Whale lovers and marine advocates wonder if the recent adoption of Endangered Species Act protections for orcas and a pending plan to restore our inland sea will finally reverse the decline. Or will Granny and her pod continue swimming in a sea of broken promises?"
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