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World Animal Net - English
URL: http://www.worldanimal.net/

World Animal Net is the world's largest network of animal protection societies with over 1,500 affiliates in more than 80 countries campaigning to improve the status and welfare of animals.

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Multimedia Animals Encyclopedia - English
URL: http://mbgnet.mobot.org/sets/ency.htm

Multimedia Animals Encyclopedia is a comprehensive reference containing detailed illustrations, descriptions and cross-referenced facts for more than 2,000 species.

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SeaWorld/Busch Gardens Animal Information Database - English
URL: http://www.buschgardens.org/

Largest animal resource on the Internet today.

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SeaWorld - English
URL: http://www.seaworld.org/

SeaWorld/Busch Gardens Animal Information Database - your largest animal resource on the Internet today.

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TheBigZoo.com - Virtual Zoo, Zoo Store, Zoo News - English
URL: http://www.thebigzoo.com/

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Our virtual zoo offers research, photos, and videos of 151 animals. The zoo store features 2304 products, including educational books, videos, posters, calendars and toys. Our zoo news section tracks the major events at zoos around the world.

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Searching for Animals.com - English
URL: http://www.searchingforanimals.com/

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Help locate information about animals including cats, dogs, horses and more.

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Naturalia - English, Italian
URL: http://www.naturalia.org/

For many years now, the legitimacy of zoological gardens has been the subject of debate and many towns have, in fact, chosen to close theirs, affirming the animal's right to freedom. We believe, however, that it is essential to offer a means of getting to know wildlife, and that is what has led us to the idea of a "virtual zoo" - images, sounds and information that, without condemning animals to suffer, opens the fascinating world of nature to the whole family.

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Animal Pictures Archive - English
URL: http://www.animalpicturesarchive.com/animal/

View over 20000 images of insects mammals reptiles fish amphibians birds and more. Also includes clipart images animated GIFs and animal sounds.

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Antarctica: Animal Printouts - English
URL: http://www.allaboutnature.com/school/Antarctica/Animalprintouts.shtml

Antarctica, the frozen continent surrounding the Earth's South Pole, and the frigid seas surrounding it, are home to many animals. In particular, the Antarctic seas are teeming with life, ranging from microscopic plankton to the biggest animal that ever lived on Earth, the Blue whale.

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Tundra Animal Printouts - English
URL: http://www.allaboutnature.com/biomes/tundra/tundra.shtml

The tundra is a cold, treeless area; it is the coldest biome. The tundra is characterized by very low temperatures, very little precipitation (rain or snow), a short growing season, few nutrients, and low biological diversity. The word tundra comes from the Finnish word tunturia, which means "treeless plain."

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Pond Life Animal Printouts - English
URL: http://www.allaboutnature.com/biomes/pond/pondlife.shtml

Ponds are teeming with both animal and plant life. Some animals live in the water (fish, crayfish, etc.), some live above the water (ducks, insects, etc), and others live in the area surrounding the pond (raccoons, earthworms, etc.).

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Savanna Animal Printouts - English
URL: http://www.allaboutnature.com/biomes/savanna/savanna.shtml

A savanna is a hot, seasonally dry grassland with scattered trees. This environment is intermediate between a grassland and a forest. Savannas are located in the dry tropics and the subtropics, often bordering a rainforest. Savannas have an extended dry season and a rainy season.

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Prairie Animal Printouts - English
URL: http://www.allaboutnature.com/biomes/grassland/prairie.shtml

A prairie is a temperate grassland, plains of grass that get hot in the summer and cold in the winter. Most of the interior of North America was a prairie before European settlement radically altered the environment with agriculure. Even now, the prairie is a large area.

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Coral Reef Animal Printouts - English
URL: http://www.enchantedlearning.com/biomes/coralreef/coralreef.shtml

Coral reefs are warm, clear, shallow ocean habitats that are rich in life. The reef's massive structure is formed from coral polyps, tiny animals that live in colonies; when coral polyps die, they leave behind a hard, stony, branching structure made of limestone.

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A Sampling of Tropical Rainforest Animals - English
URL: http://www.allaboutnature.com/subjects/rainforest/animals/Rfbiomeanimals.shtml

Rainforests are very dense, warm, wet forests. They are havens for millions of plants and animals. Rainforests are extremely important in the ecology of the Earth. The plants of the rainforest generate much of the Earth's oxygen. These plants are also very important to people in other ways; many are used in new drugs that fight disease and illness.

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Temperate Deciduous Forest Animal Printouts - English
URL: http://www.allaboutnature.com/biomes/tempdecid/tempdecid.shtml

Temperate deciduous forests are forests in cool, rainy areas; they have trees that lose their leaves in Fall and regrow them in Spring. Temperate deciduous forests are found in the middle latitudes around the globe and have four distinct seasons: Spring, Summer, Fall, and Winter. In the Northern Hemisphere, these forests are found in North America, Europe, and Asia. In the Southern Hemisphere, there are smaller areas of these forests, in South America, Africa, and Australia.

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Grassland Animal Printouts - English
URL: http://www.allaboutnature.com/biomes/grassland/grassland.shtml

A grassland is a grassy, windy, partly-dry biome, a sea of grass. Almost one-fourth of the Earth's land area is grassland. In many areas, grasslands separate forests from deserts. Deep-rooted grasses dominate the flora in a grassland; there are very few trees and shrubs in a grassland, less than one tree per acre. There are many different words for grassland environments around the world, including savannas, pampas, campos, plains, steppes, prairies and veldts.

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Chaparral Animal Printouts - English
URL: http://www.allaboutnature.com/biomes/chaparral/chaparral.shtml

A chaparral is a shrubby coastal area that has hot dry summers and mild, cool, rainy winters. Chaparrals consist of regions of tall, dense shrubs with leathery leaves or needles; the shrubs are interspersed with some woodland (scrub oak). The total annual rainfall in a chaparral ranges from 15 to 40 inches per year (38-100 cm). The word chaparral comes from "chaparro," which means scrub oak in Spanish. Chaparrals are also called Mediterranean scrub, shrublands, or scrublands.

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Taiga Animal Printouts - English
URL: http://www.zoomwhales.com/biomes/taiga/taiga.shtml

A taiga, also called a boreal forest or northern coniferous forest, is a cold woodland or forest. Taiga is a Russian word for marshy pine forest. EnchantedLearning.com.

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Desert Animal Printouts - English
URL: http://www.allaboutnature.com/biomes/desert/desert.shtml

Deserts cover about one third of the Earth's land area. The desert is a harsh environment with very little rainfall and extreme temperatures. Desert plant life is not abundant; neither is animal life.

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