A-Z Animals
A Z Animals: Animal Facts: Burrowing Frog (Heleioporus)
View images and learn facts about the Burrowing Frog, including habitat, appearance, diet, and breeding.
San Diego Zoo Global
San Diego Zoo: Kids: Burrowing Owl
Colorful resource for learning fun facts about burrowing owls with photographs as well as information regarding their physical characteristics, habitat, and unique features.
Read Works
Read Works: Awesome Animal Homes
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about four different types of animal homes: mounds, nests, burrows, and lodges. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
Other
Broward Community College: The Gopher Tortoise
The population of the gopher tortoise is limited by homes, roads, and buildings made by humans. This valuable species creates burrows that provide shelter for numerous creatures during natural disasters like forest fires. This site...
Defenders of Wildlife
Defenders of Wildlife: Fact Sheets
Here you can find fact sheets on over 50 species of animals. Find an animal by where it lives in the world, and learn all about it.
Unique Australian Animals
Unique Australian Animals: Wombat
Visit this webpage to learn more about the wombat.
San Diego Zoo Global
San Diego Zoo: Komodo Dragon
This resource provides detailed information on the Komodo Dragon. It contains several photos and a video.
San Diego Zoo Global
San Diego Zoo: Warthog
This resource provides detailed information about the warthog, as well as several pictures.
Sheppard Software
Sheppard Software: Owls
This site gives an in-depth description of an owl, including its behavior, appearance, reproduction, and classification. The site includes photos and illustrations and an interactive quiz to test your understanding.
San Diego Zoo Global
San Diego Zoo: Lizard
This resource provides extensive information about lizards, including photos and an audio clip.
Smithsonian Institution
National Museum of Natural History: Arctic Studies Center: Lemmings
This Smithsonian website has a brief, but thorough, article on the Lemmings that also includes a picture and a quote from naturalist Edward Nelson.
Smithsonian Institution
National Museum of Natural History: American Mammals: Brush Rabbit
When they are frightened, Brush Rabbits often thump the ground with a hind foot and may also squeal. These very small cottontails use burrows dug by other animals as escape routes, and sometimes climb into shrubs or low trees to avoid...
Smithsonian Institution
National Museum of Natural History: American Mammals: Pygmy Rabbit
Pygmy Rabbits dig extensive burrow systems, which are also used by other animals. Loss of habitat is a direct threat to this species, which depends on big sagebrush, particularly mature stands of it. Learn more about the Brachylagus...
Smithsonian Institution
National Museum of Natural History: American Mammals: Mountain Beaver
Some scientists think the Mountain Beaver is the world's most primitive living rodent, similar in appearance and behavior to animals that lived 60 million years ago. They have small eyes and ears and luxurious whiskers, and are, like...