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Chicago Zoological Society

Chicago Zoological Society: Zoo Explorer: Crested Wood Partridge

For Students 9th - 10th
Discover interesting details about the unique crested wood partridge by browsing this resource from the Brookfield Zoo. In addition to quick facts, this animal guide provides information on its appearance, eating habits, and breeding.
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Chicago Zoological Society

Chicago Zoological Society: Zoo Explorer: Micronesian Kingfisher

For Students 9th - 10th
Get acquainted with the Micronesian kingfisher by browsing this animal guide from the Brookfield Zoo. Highlights includes quick facts, a photo, and details on its appearance, breeding, communication, and habitat. Discover why these...
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Chicago Zoological Society

Chicago Zoological Society: Zoo Explorer: Trumpeter Swan

For Students 9th - 10th
Get acquainted with the trumpeter swan while browsing this animal guide from the Brookfield Zoo. Highlights include quick facts, a photo, and details on the appearance, habitat, conservation efforts and other characteristics that define...
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Chicago Zoological Society

Chicago Zoological Society: Zoo Explorer: Bottlenose Dolphin

For Students 9th - 10th
Get acquainted with the bottlenose dolphin by browsing this animal quide from the Brookfield Zoo. Highlights include quick facts, a photo, and details on the appearance, social behaviors, communication, and habitat of these aquatic mammals.
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Chicago Zoological Society

Chicago Zoological Society: Zoo Explorer: Alligator Snapping Turtle

For Students 9th - 10th
Get acquainted with the alligator snapping turtle while browsing this animal guide from the Brookfield Zoo. Content includes quick facts and highlights on the appearance, habitat, social behaviors, and mating habits of the largest...
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Chicago Zoological Society

Chicago Zoological Society: Zoo Explorer: Little Blue Heron

For Students 9th - 10th
Get to know the little blue heron by browsing this brief summary from the Brookfield Zoo. This animal guide offers quick facts, a photo, and information on the appearance, social behaviors, and mating habits of these colonial nesters.
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Chicago Zoological Society

Chicago Zoological Society: Zoo Explorer: North American River Otter

For Students 9th - 10th
Familiarize yourself with the North American river otter by browsing this brief overview from the Brookfield Zoo. This animal guide includes quick facts and information on the appearance, habitat, social and eating habits, and other...
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Chicago Zoological Society

Chicago Zoological Society: Zoo Explorer: Asian Small Clawed Otter

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn all about the Asian small-clawed otter by browsing this reference from the Brookfield Zoo. In addition to quick facts, this animal guide provides information on the appearance, habitat, breeding, and social behaviors of this...
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Chicago Zoological Society

Chicago Zoological Society: Zoo Explorer: Black Handed Spider Monkey

For Students 9th - 10th
Find out more about the black-handed spider monkey by browsing this reference from the Brookfield Zoo. In addition to quick facts and a photo, this animal guide offers details on the appearance, environment, eating habits and other...
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Chicago Zoological Society

Chicago Zoological Society: Zoo Explorer: Callimico

For Students 9th - 10th
Get acquainted with the callimico while reading this animal guide from the Brookfield Zoo. Content includes quick facts, a photo, and highlights on the appearance, habitat, and social habits of this unique monkey.
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Chicago Zoological Society

Chicago Zoological Society: Zoo Explorer: Colobus Monkey

For Students 9th - 10th
In addition to quick facts and a photo, the Brookfield Zoo provides information on the social and eatings habits, appearance, habitat, and other characteristics of the colobus monkey, who despite having no thumbs move around trees fairly...
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Chicago Zoological Society

Chicago Zoological Society: Zoo Explorer: Giant Anteater

For Students 9th - 10th
In addition to quick facts, the Brookfield Zoo provides information on the social and eatings habits, appearance, habitat, and other characteristics of the giant anteater.
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Chicago Zoological Society

Chicago Zoological Society: Zoo Explorer: Western Lowland Gorilla

For Students 9th - 10th
Find out more about the western lowland gorilla by browsing this resource from the Brookfield Zoo. In addition to quick facts, this animal guide provides information on its appearance, family dynamics, and communication.
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Chicago Zoological Society

Chicago Zoological Society: Zoo Explorer: White Cheeked Gibbon

For Students 9th - 10th
Find out more about the white-cheeked gibbon by browsing this reference from the Brookfield Zoo. In addition to quick facts, this animal guide offers information on its appearance, communication, habitat, and unique characteristics.
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Chicago Zoological Society

Chicago Zoological Society: Zoo Explorer: Blue Poison Frog

For Students 9th - 10th
In addition to quick facts, the Brookfield Zoo provides the lowdown on the social and eating habits, appearance, habitat, and other characteristics of the blue poison frog.
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San Diego Zoo Global

San Diego Zoo: Kids: Blue Tongued Skink

For Students K - 1st
Have you ever stuck your tongue out at someone? For people, it is considered bad manners, but for this lizard, it is a way to scare off a predator!
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San Diego Zoo Global

San Diego Zoo: Kids: Bee

For Students K - 1st
Bees fly from flower to flower, sipping nectar and collecting grains of pollen. Bees have a special tongue that sucks up the nectar and a crop in their throat for storing it until they get back to the hive, where it is turned into honey...
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Smithsonian Institution

Smithsonian National Zoo: Zoogoer Magazine: Trekking the Treetops

For Students 9th - 10th
Terry Dunn's article, "Trekking the Treetops," focuses on the range of plant and animal life to be found in the canopies of the forests. The article centers on the canopy of tropical rainforests.
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: We Saw Him at the Zoo

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
In this lesson plan, the mentor text utilized is Deborah Guarino's book, Is Your Mama a Llama?, with the focus of sentence fluency. Each student will think of an animal that that has the same initial sound as his/her name. Using the...
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Ducksters

Ducksters: Zoos for Kids: Zoological Gardens and Their Animals

For Students 1st - 5th
Kids learn about the zoo. History and types of zoological gardens. List of Zoos with interesting animals.
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Other

"Animals You Can See at the Zoo" by Roland Merino

For Students 3rd - 5th
A short story about some of the animals you can see at the zoo and the sounds they make. Requires Real Player to hear the sounds.
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Other

You Better Belize It: The Belize Zoo

For Students 9th - 10th
This site describes the Belize Zoo with full color photos of some animals found there. It describes where the zoo is located and why it opened in 1983.
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The BIG zoo

The Big Zoo: Mexican Gray Wolf

For Students 9th - 10th
Virtual zoo site provides some insight into these fascinating creatures. Contains a physical description as well as information regarding their diet, habitat, social structure, birth and offspring and senses.
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The BIG zoo

The Big Zoo: Saltwater Crocodile

For Students 9th - 10th
Virtual zoo site provides some fascinating facts on this largest living reptile. Contains a physical description as well as information on their habitat, diet, social structure and birth and offspring.

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