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A-Z Animals

A Z Animals: Animal Facts: Gibbon (Hylobatidae)

For Students 9th - 10th
This entry identifies the defining characteristics of Hylobatidae, more commonly known as the Gibbon.
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A-Z Animals

A Z Animals: Animal Facts: Golden Lion Tamarin (Leontopithecus Rosalia)

For Students 9th - 10th
This entry identifies the defining characteristics of Leontophithecus Rosalia, more commonly known as the Golden Lion Tamarin.
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A-Z Animals

A Z Animals: Animal Facts: Japanese Macaque (Macaca Fuscata)

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn facts about the Japanese Macaque, including details on its appearance, evolution, habitat, breeding, diet, conservation status, and predatory lifestyle.
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A-Z Animals

A Z Animals: Animal Facts: Uakari (Cacajao)

For Students 9th - 10th
This entry identifies the defining characteristics of the cacajo, more commonly known as the uakari.
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International Primate Protection League

For Students 9th - 10th
The International Primate Protection League was founded in 1973 and, since this time, has been working continuously for the well-being of primates. Includes news and recent developments concerning primates, a topic search engine, audio,...
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Starfall

Starfall: Morning Three Night Four

For Students K - 1st Standards
This interactive ebook features the text and optional audio of the old Chinese fable, Morning Three Night Four.
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Denver Zoo

Denver Zoo: Golden Lion Tamarin

For Students 9th - 10th
The Denver Zoo features a comprehensive overview of the golden lion tamarin focusing on its habitat, range, adaptations, diet, physical characteristics, and more.
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Saint Louis Zoo

Saint Louis Zoo: Geoffroy's Marmoset

For Students 9th - 10th
Discover fun facts and learn about the habitat, breeding, appearance, diet, and conservation status of the Geoffroy's marmoset.
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Denver Zoo

Denver Zoo: Mandrill

For Students 9th - 10th
The Denver Zoo features a comprehensive overview of the mandrill focusing on its habitat, range, adaptations, diet, physical characteristics, and more.
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San Francisco Zoo: Mandrill

For Students 9th - 10th
Meet the mandrill, discover fascinating facts, and learn about their physical characteristics, diet, habitat, behavior, and conservation status.
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Canadian Museum of Nature

Canadian Museum of Nature: Baboon

For Students 9th - 10th
The baboon is native to Africa. They have structured societies with dominant males as leaders. Some facts about the baboon and pictures are found here.
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Wolfram Research

Wolfram Math World: Saddle Point

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from MathWorld.com gives an example of a saddle point in one dimension along with a definition with links to relative terms and topics.
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University of Washington

University of Washington: Brains, Brains, Brains

For Students 9th - 10th
Have some fun with this site and see if you can find out which brain picture goes with each of the nine animals named. Answers provided.
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University of Houston

University of Houston: Engines of Our Ingenuity: No. 824: Scopes Trial

For Students 9th - 10th
In this transcript of a radio broadcast, we learn about the Scopes Trial of 1925, which pitted creationists against evolutionists.
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Rhea County: Scopes Evolution Trial Information

For Students 9th - 10th
An article about the Scopes Trial in Dayton, Tennessee. It briefly recounts the substance of the trial and the participants. Find out what happened to William Jennings Bryan, Clarence Darrow, and John Scopes.
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Siteseen

Siteseen: American Historama: The Fundamentalist Movement

For Students 9th - 10th
Comprehensive summary provides a list of interesting facts and information pertaining to Fundamentalism and the Fundamentalist Movement.
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University of Minnesota

University of Minnesota: Animal Astronauts

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about the animals who have been used in space missions, what each of their purposes were, and which vehicles took them to the stars.
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Curated OER

Eternal Egypt: Relief of Tep Em Ankh

For Students 9th - 10th
This low-relief of Tep-em-Ankh shows a nude man being grasped around the legs by a large monkey. A second man leads a female monkey who is carrying a baby.
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Wisconsin Prc Logo

For Students 9th - 10th
Information about primates, includes links to primate centers and organizations. Find out about the International Directory of Primatology. Click into "Resources on Primatology" and then "About the Primates" to get to primate-specific...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Maps Etc: Animals of Asia, 1906

For Students 9th - 10th
A pictorial map from 1906 illustrating the various animals that live in regions of Asia. "The white bear, the seal and many sea birds are found near the Arctic shore. In the cold parts of Siberia tribes of yellow people keep herds of...
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Unesco: Cote D'ivoire: Tai National Park

For Students 9th - 10th
This park is one of the last major remnants of the primary tropical forest of West Africa. Its rich natural flora, and threatened mammal species such as the pygmy hippopotamus and 11 species of monkeys, are of great scientific interest.
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Unesco: Peru: Rio Abiseo National Park

For Students 9th - 10th
The park was created in 1983 to protect the fauna and flora of the rainforests that are characteristic of this region of the Andes. There is a high level of endemism among the fauna and flora found in the park. The yellow-tailed woolly...
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Unesco: China: Huanglong Scenic and Historic Interest Area

For Students 9th - 10th
Situated in the north-west of Sichaun Province, the Huanglong valley is made up of snow-capped peaks and the easternmost of all the Chinese glaciers. In addition to its mountain landscape, diverse forest ecosystems can be found, as well...
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Smithsonian Institution Archives: Gertrude Van Wagenen (1893 1978)

For Students 9th - 10th
Biologist Gertrude Van Wagenen (1893-1978) served on the faculty at Yale and did pioneering studies of rhesus monkeys

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