Animal Games

Pick an animal category: mammals, reptiles & amphibians, insects & arachnids, birds, or fish.  Then learn the characteristics of those kinds of animals and play a clue-based guessing game to figure out the animal’s name. Each time you guess correctly, another part of the animal is revealed in the picture.

Earth & Sky Channel: Animals

Here you can download podcasts on up-to-date topics related to animals, discoveries, their behavior and the environment.  There’s also an “Ask the Scientist” sections with answers to questions commonly asked by kids and adults.

MrNussbaum.com Animals

Choose from several interactive games to learn more about reptiles and amphibians, North American birds, sharks, penguins, vultures & condors, mammals, butterflies, crickets, insects, their habitats, adaptations, classifications and needs.  A premium version with more features is available for a fee.

Insects: Entomology Image Gallery

Images of beetles, butterflies, moths, caterpillars, cicadas, leafhoppers, flies, mosquitoes, grasshoppers, crickets, lice, ticks and true bugs.  You can also view images of insect damage to plants.

Birds: Cornell Lab of Ornithology

From site:  The Lab is a nonprofit membership institution whose mission is to interpret and conserve the earth’s biological diversity through research, education, and citizen science focused on birds. Our programs work with citizen scientists, government and nongovernment agencies across North America and beyond. We believe that bird enthusiasts of all ages and skill levels can and do make a difference. We invite you to learn more about our areas of study.

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