Animal Notebook
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You'll learn how to identify animals, all about their habitat/range, diet, predators, how they reproduce, and their conservation status.
Please select a category from the left to select an animal. Amphibian profiles can be found at the NACC. You may also search for the animal by name in the main search engine at the bottom of this page.
VERTEBRATE ANIMAL KINGDOM
| Mammals |
Birds
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Fish |
Amphibians |
Reptiles |
| Warm-blooded vertebrate animals, including humans, characterized by a covering of hair on the skin and milk-producing mammary glands for nourishing the young (in females). |
Warm-blooded, egg-laying, and feathered with forelimbs modified to form wings. |
Cold-blooded aquatic animals having fins, gills, and a streamlined body. |
Cold-blooded, smooth-skinned animals that characteristically hatches as larva with gills. Adults have air-breathing lungs. Capable of living both on land and in water. |
Cold-blooded, usually egg-laying animals with scales and breathing with lungs. |
Adopt an Animal
"Adopt" an animal is program that helps the Zoo take care of the animal you select. Your symbollic animal adoption helps provide veterinary treatment, improve exhibits, sponsor educational classes, seminars and research expeditions. More importantly, your assistance makes the Zoo’s participation in the Species Survival Plans possible.
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