Animals & Pets

Categories

Dinosaurs

Sites

EBSCO Animals

Provides in-depth information describing the nature and habitat of familiar animals.
Access this with your library card number and PIN, or at our libraries.

Amazing Animals

from National Geographic

Animal Diversity Web

ADW is a large searchable encyclopedia of the natural history of animals. Thousands of species accounts about individual animal species.

Animal Group Names (Collective Nouns)

Christchurch City Libraries' fact files.

Doglinks

Everything for New Zealand dogs and their people.

EEK!

Environmental Education for Kids. Learn about plants, animals, and Wisconsin's great outdoors. Wisconsin DNR's electronic magazine is for kids in grades 4-8.

Group names of animals

Christchurch City Libraries' fact files

Insects and Spiders of New Zealand/Aotearoa

Designed for 2-6 year olds and their teachers, this site provides information on the "creepy crawlies" of Aotearoa. Viewable in English and Te Reo Maori.

Kiwi Conservation Club

A New Zealand conservation site that contains fact sheets about black robins, wetas, possums, kakapo, kiwi and New Zealand threatened species (including both plant and animal life).

Kiwi Recovery Programme

Cool site all about the kiwi! Check out the kid's pages.

Male, female and baby animal names

Find the terms used to describe male, female and young of over 100 animals.. Christchurch City Libraries' fact files.

New Zealand Birds and Animals

Information about some of our endangered, extinct and introduced animals and birds.

Pet care

Advice from the SPCA

Planet Arkive

Fun facts, information and games about endangered species, wildlife and natural history.

US National Wildlife Federation's Pages for kids.

Take a cool tour (recommended) or visit with Ranger Rick.

Vertebrate Flight Exhibit

This online exhibit explores the phenomenon of vertebrate flight.