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Animal Kingdom

Meet the animals!

Mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, fish, bugs, dinosaurs and pets. Tap one and Buzzby tells you all about it, then tap 🐾 Hear it! for the real animal sound.

Show animals for:

All ages Ages 3 to 4 Preschool Age 5 Kindergarten Age 6 Grade 1 Age 7 Grade 2 Age 8 Grade 3 Ages 9 to 10 Grade 4 and 5 Ages 11 to 12 Grade 6 and 7 Ages 13 to 14 Grade 8

Grown ups: set the age on each child's profile and every page opens at their level.

🦁 Mammals

Mammals have fur or hair, are warm blooded and feed their babies milk.

🏠 Lives in: Grasslands of Africa
🍽️ Eats: Meat, like zebras and antelope
🔊 Sound or move: Roars so loud you can hear it 8 kilometers away
✨ Fun fact: A lion family is called a pride, and the moms do most of the hunting.

Ages 3 to 10 More about the lion ›

🏠 Lives in: Africa and Asia
🍽️ Eats: Grass, leaves, bark and fruit
🔊 Sound or move: Trumpets through its trunk
✨ Fun fact: An elephant's trunk has about 40,000 muscles and can pick up a single peanut.

Ages 3 to 10 More about the elephant ›

🏠 Lives in: Homes all around the world
🍽️ Eats: Dog food, meat and vegetables
🔊 Sound or move: Barks, whines and howls
✨ Fun fact: A dog's nose print is one of a kind, just like your fingerprint.

Ages 3 to 7 More about the dog ›

🏠 Lives in: Homes all around the world
🍽️ Eats: Cat food, fish and meat
🔊 Sound or move: Meows and purrs
✨ Fun fact: Cats sleep for up to 16 hours a day. That is a lot of naps!

Ages 3 to 7 More about the cat ›

🏠 Lives in: Farms
🍽️ Eats: Grass and hay
🔊 Sound or move: Moos
✨ Fun fact: A cow has four parts to its stomach to help it digest grass.

Ages 3 to 7 More about the cow ›

🏠 Lives in: Farms and open fields
🍽️ Eats: Grass, hay and oats
🔊 Sound or move: Neighs and whinnies
✨ Fun fact: Horses can sleep standing up, and they have the biggest eyes of any land mammal.

Ages 3 to 8 More about the horse ›

🏠 Lives in: African savanna
🍽️ Eats: Leaves from the tops of tall trees
🔊 Sound or move: Hums quietly at night
✨ Fun fact: A giraffe is the tallest animal on land, and its tongue is dark blue and about 50 centimeters long.

Ages 3 to 10 More about the giraffe ›

🏠 Lives in: Bamboo forests in China
🍽️ Eats: Bamboo, bamboo and more bamboo
🔊 Sound or move: Bleats and squeaks
✨ Fun fact: A panda eats for up to 14 hours a day and can munch 20 kilograms of bamboo.

Ages 3 to 10 More about the panda ›

🏠 Lives in: Australia
🍽️ Eats: Grass and plants
🔊 Sound or move: Hops on strong back legs
✨ Fun fact: A baby kangaroo, called a joey, is only as big as a jellybean when it is born.

Ages 5 to 10 More about the kangaroo ›

🏠 Lives in: Oceans around the world
🍽️ Eats: Fish and squid
🔊 Sound or move: Clicks and whistles
✨ Fun fact: Dolphins are mammals, not fish. They breathe air through a blowhole on top of their head.

Ages 5 to 10 More about the dolphin ›

🏠 Lives in: Caves and trees, almost everywhere
🍽️ Eats: Insects, fruit or nectar
🔊 Sound or move: Squeaks too high for us to hear
✨ Fun fact: A bat is the only mammal that can truly fly, and it finds its way in the dark with sound.

Ages 6 to 10 More about the bat ›

🏠 Lives in: Rivers and lakes in Canada
🍽️ Eats: Tree bark and water plants
🔊 Sound or move: Slaps its tail on the water as a warning
✨ Fun fact: Beavers build dams out of sticks and mud, and their big front teeth never stop growing.

Ages 5 to 10 More about the beaver ›

🏠 Lives in: The icy Arctic
🍽️ Eats: Seals
🔊 Sound or move: Growls and chuffs
✨ Fun fact: Under its white fur, a polar bear's skin is black to soak up the sun's warmth.

Ages 5 to 10 More about the polar bear ›

🏠 Lives in: Forests of Canada
🍽️ Eats: Twigs, leaves and water plants
🔊 Sound or move: Makes a low bellow
✨ Fun fact: A moose can dive under water to eat plants and can run as fast as a car in town.

Ages 5 to 10 More about the moose ›

🏠 Lives in: Forests of Asia
🍽️ Eats: Deer and wild pigs
🔊 Sound or move: Roars and chuffs
✨ Fun fact: Every tiger has its own stripe pattern, and the stripes are on its skin too, not just its fur.

Ages 3 to 10 More about the tiger ›

🏠 Lives in: Forests and mountains of the north
🍽️ Eats: Deer, elk and small animals
🔊 Sound or move: Howls to call its pack
✨ Fun fact: Wolves live in family packs and can hear a howl from many kilometers away.

Ages 5 to 10 More about the wolf ›

🏠 Lives in: Forests, fields and even cities
🍽️ Eats: Mice, berries and insects
🔊 Sound or move: Yips and barks
✨ Fun fact: A fox uses its bushy tail like a blanket to keep warm when it sleeps.

Ages 3 to 10 More about the fox ›

🏠 Lives in: Rainforests of Africa, Asia and South America
🍽️ Eats: Fruit, leaves and insects
🔊 Sound or move: Chatters and hoots
✨ Fun fact: Many monkeys use their tails like an extra hand to hang from branches.

Ages 3 to 8 More about the monkey ›

🏠 Lives in: Mountain forests of Africa
🍽️ Eats: Leaves, stems and fruit
🔊 Sound or move: Grunts and beats its chest
✨ Fun fact: Gorillas are gentle giants that live in family groups led by a silverback dad.

Ages 5 to 10 More about the gorilla ›

🏠 Lives in: African grasslands
🍽️ Eats: Grass
🔊 Sound or move: Brays and barks
✨ Fun fact: No two zebras have the same stripes, and the stripes help confuse biting flies.

Ages 3 to 10 More about the zebra ›

🏠 Lives in: Rivers and lakes in Africa
🍽️ Eats: Grass, lots of it at night
🔊 Sound or move: Grunts and bellows
✨ Fun fact: A hippo spends most of the day in the water and its skin makes its own sunscreen.

Ages 3 to 10 More about the hippo ›

🏠 Lives in: African and Asian grasslands
🍽️ Eats: Grass, leaves and shoots
🔊 Sound or move: Snorts and squeaks
✨ Fun fact: A rhino horn is made of keratin, the same stuff as your fingernails.

Ages 5 to 10 More about the rhino ›

🏠 Lives in: Deserts of Africa and Asia
🍽️ Eats: Dry grass, thorny plants and dates
🔊 Sound or move: Grumbles and groans
✨ Fun fact: A camel's hump stores fat, not water, and it can go a week without a drink.

Ages 5 to 10 More about the camel ›

🏠 Lives in: Eucalyptus forests of Australia
🍽️ Eats: Eucalyptus leaves
🔊 Sound or move: Grunts and snores
✨ Fun fact: Koalas sleep up to 20 hours a day and are not bears, they are marsupials with pouches.

Ages 3 to 10 More about the koala ›

🏠 Lives in: Rainforests of Central and South America
🍽️ Eats: Leaves and buds
🔊 Sound or move: Moves very, very slowly
✨ Fun fact: A sloth only climbs down from its tree about once a week.

Ages 3 to 10 More about the sloth ›

🏠 Lives in: Forests and meadows
🍽️ Eats: Grass, leaves and acorns
🔊 Sound or move: Snorts and stamps
✨ Fun fact: Male deer grow new antlers every year and drop them in winter.

Ages 3 to 8 More about the deer ›

🏠 Lives in: Meadows, gardens and burrows
🍽️ Eats: Grass, clover and vegetables
🔊 Sound or move: Thumps its back foot as a warning
✨ Fun fact: A rabbit's teeth never stop growing, so it chews all day to keep them short.

Ages 3 to 7 More about the rabbit ›

🏠 Lives in: Parks and forests
🍽️ Eats: Nuts, seeds and acorns
🔊 Sound or move: Chatters and flicks its tail
✨ Fun fact: Squirrels bury nuts for winter and forget some, which grow into new trees.

Ages 3 to 7 More about the squirrel ›

🏠 Lives in: Gardens and hedges of Europe
🍽️ Eats: Beetles, worms and slugs
🔊 Sound or move: Snuffles and grunts
✨ Fun fact: A hedgehog rolls into a spiky ball when it feels scared.

Ages 3 to 8 More about the hedgehog ›

🏠 Lives in: Forests and towns of North America
🍽️ Eats: Almost anything, from fruit to frogs
🔊 Sound or move: Chitters and purrs
✨ Fun fact: Raccoons have clever hands and often look like they are washing their food.

Ages 3 to 8 More about the raccoon ›

🏠 Lives in: Rivers and lakes
🍽️ Eats: Fish and crayfish
🔊 Sound or move: Chirps and squeaks
✨ Fun fact: River otters love to play and slide down muddy banks on their tummies.

Ages 3 to 8 More about the otter ›

🏠 Lives in: Oceans everywhere
🍽️ Eats: Fish, seals and squid
🔊 Sound or move: Clicks, whistles and calls
✨ Fun fact: Orcas are the biggest dolphins and each family has its own calls, like a language.

Ages 5 to 10 More about the orca ›

🏠 Lives in: Cold coasts and icy seas
🍽️ Eats: Fish and squid
🔊 Sound or move: Barks and grunts
✨ Fun fact: Seals can hold their breath for over 30 minutes and sleep in the water.

Ages 3 to 8 More about the seal ›

🏠 Lives in: Arctic seas and ice
🍽️ Eats: Clams from the seabed
🔊 Sound or move: Bellows and whistles
✨ Fun fact: A walrus uses its long tusks to pull itself out of the water onto the ice.

Ages 5 to 10 More about the walrus ›

🏠 Lives in: Forests and mountains
🍽️ Eats: Berries, fish, nuts and honey
🔊 Sound or move: Growls and huffs
✨ Fun fact: Black bears and grizzlies sleep most of the winter in a den, and that is called hibernation.

Ages 3 to 10 More about the bear ›

🏠 Lives in: Mountains and rivers of western Canada
🍽️ Eats: Salmon, berries and roots
🔊 Sound or move: Roars and grunts
✨ Fun fact: A grizzly can run faster than a horse over a short distance.

Ages 5 to 10 More about the grizzly bear ›

🏠 Lives in: Arctic tundra of Canada
🍽️ Eats: Lichen, grass and leaves
🔊 Sound or move: Clicks when it walks
✨ Fun fact: Caribou are the only deer where the females grow antlers too, and they travel thousands of kilometers each year.

Ages 5 to 10 More about the caribou ›

🏠 Lives in: Prairies of Canada and the USA
🍽️ Eats: Grass
🔊 Sound or move: Grunts and snorts
✨ Fun fact: The bison is the biggest land animal in North America and can jump a tall fence.

Ages 5 to 10 More about the bison ›

🏠 Lives in: Snowy forests of Canada
🍽️ Eats: Snowshoe hares
🔊 Sound or move: Silent, with big furry paws
✨ Fun fact: A lynx has huge furry paws that work like snowshoes.

Ages 5 to 10 More about the lynx ›

🏠 Lives in: Forests of North America
🍽️ Eats: Bark, leaves and twigs
🔊 Sound or move: Grunts and rattles its quills
✨ Fun fact: A porcupine has about 30,000 quills, and it cannot shoot them, they just come off when touched.

Ages 5 to 10 More about the porcupine ›

🏠 Lives in: Fields and woods of North America
🍽️ Eats: Insects, berries and eggs
🔊 Sound or move: Stamps its feet before it sprays
✨ Fun fact: A skunk warns you with a little dance before it sprays its smelly spray.

Ages 3 to 8 More about the skunk ›

🏠 Lives in: Rivers of eastern Australia
🍽️ Eats: Worms and shrimp
🔊 Sound or move: Grumbles and growls
✨ Fun fact: A platypus has a duck bill and lays eggs, but it is a mammal that feeds its babies milk.

Ages 6 to 10 More about the platypus ›

🏠 Lives in: Deserts of southern Africa
🍽️ Eats: Insects, scorpions and lizards
🔊 Sound or move: Chirps and barks
✨ Fun fact: Meerkats take turns standing guard on their back legs to watch for danger.

Ages 3 to 10 More about the meerkat ›

🏠 Lives in: African grasslands
🍽️ Eats: Gazelles and antelope
🔊 Sound or move: Chirps and purrs, it cannot roar
✨ Fun fact: The cheetah is the fastest land animal, as fast as a car on the highway, but only for a short sprint.

Ages 5 to 10 More about the cheetah ›

🏠 Lives in: Forests and grasslands of Africa and Asia
🍽️ Eats: Deer, monkeys and birds
🔊 Sound or move: Coughs and growls
✨ Fun fact: Leopards are so strong they can drag their dinner up into a tree.

Ages 5 to 10 More about the leopard ›

🏠 Lives in: Rainforests of Africa
🍽️ Eats: Fruit, leaves, nuts and insects
🔊 Sound or move: Hoots and pants
✨ Fun fact: Chimps use sticks as tools to fish for termites.

Ages 5 to 10 More about the chimpanzee ›

🏠 Lives in: Rainforests of Borneo and Sumatra
🍽️ Eats: Fruit, especially figs
🔊 Sound or move: Long calls that echo through the forest
✨ Fun fact: An orangutan builds a new leafy nest to sleep in almost every night.

Ages 5 to 10 More about the orangutan ›

🏠 Lives in: Fields, barns and houses
🍽️ Eats: Seeds, grains and crumbs
🔊 Sound or move: Squeaks
✨ Fun fact: A mouse can squeeze through a hole the size of a pencil.

Ages 3 to 7 More about the mouse ›

🏠 Lives in: Deserts, and homes as pets
🍽️ Eats: Seeds, grains and vegetables
🔊 Sound or move: Squeaks and chatters
✨ Fun fact: Hamsters stuff their cheeks full of food to carry it back to their nest.

Ages 3 to 7 More about the hamster ›

🏠 Lives in: Farms
🍽️ Eats: Vegetables, grain and fruit
🔊 Sound or move: Oinks and squeals
✨ Fun fact: Pigs are very clever and roll in mud to stay cool, because they cannot sweat.

Ages 3 to 7 More about the pig ›

🏠 Lives in: Farms and hills
🍽️ Eats: Grass and hay
🔊 Sound or move: Baas
✨ Fun fact: A sheep's woolly coat is shorn once a year and made into sweaters and blankets.

Ages 3 to 7 More about the sheep ›

🏠 Lives in: Farms and rocky hills
🍽️ Eats: Grass, leaves and shrubs
🔊 Sound or move: Bleats
✨ Fun fact: Goats are great climbers and have rectangle shaped pupils in their eyes.

Ages 3 to 7 More about the goat ›

🏠 Lives in: Farms and dry hills
🍽️ Eats: Grass, hay and straw
🔊 Sound or move: Hee haws
✨ Fun fact: A donkey has very good memory and can remember a friend after many years.

Ages 3 to 7 More about the donkey ›

🏠 Lives in: Mountains of South America
🍽️ Eats: Grass and hay
🔊 Sound or move: Hums
✨ Fun fact: Llamas carry loads up mountains, and they spit when they are annoyed.

Ages 3 to 8 More about the llama ›

🏠 Lives in: Grasslands of South America, and homes as pets
🍽️ Eats: Hay, grass and vegetables
🔊 Sound or move: Wheeks and purrs
✨ Fun fact: Guinea pigs wheek loudly when they hear the fridge open, because they know food is coming.

Ages 3 to 7 More about the guinea pig ›

🏠 Lives in: Snowy lands of the far north
🍽️ Eats: Lichen, moss and grass
🔊 Sound or move: Clicks and grunts
✨ Fun fact: Reindeer noses warm up the icy air before they breathe it in.

Ages 3 to 8 More about the reindeer ›

🏠 Lives in: Forests and lakes of Canada
🍽️ Eats: Milk, then leaves and water plants
🔊 Sound or move: Mews softly to its mom
✨ Fun fact: A moose calf can swim just a few days after it is born.

Ages 3 to 7 More about the moose calf ›

🦉 Birds

Birds have feathers, wings and a beak, and they hatch from eggs.

🏠 Lives in: Gardens, parks and forests
🍽️ Eats: Worms, insects and berries
🔊 Sound or move: Sings cheerily in the morning
✨ Fun fact: Robins find worms by looking, then tilting their heads to listen.

Ages 3 to 7 More about the robin ›

🏠 Lives in: Forests, barns and deserts
🍽️ Eats: Mice, voles and small animals
🔊 Sound or move: Hoots at night
✨ Fun fact: An owl can turn its head almost all the way around, and its wings make hardly any sound.

Ages 3 to 10 More about the owl ›

🏠 Lives in: Antarctica and cold southern coasts
🍽️ Eats: Fish, squid and krill
🔊 Sound or move: Brays and squawks
✨ Fun fact: Penguins cannot fly, but they can swim faster than most people can run.

Ages 3 to 10 More about the penguin ›

🏠 Lives in: Mountains, coasts and big rivers
🍽️ Eats: Fish and small animals
🔊 Sound or move: A high piping call
✨ Fun fact: An eagle can spot a rabbit from more than 3 kilometers away.

Ages 5 to 10 More about the eagle ›

🏠 Lives in: Rainforests
🍽️ Eats: Seeds, nuts and fruit
🔊 Sound or move: Squawks and can copy words
✨ Fun fact: Some parrots can learn to say hundreds of words.

Ages 3 to 8 More about the parrot ›

🏠 Lives in: Ponds, lakes and rivers
🍽️ Eats: Water plants, seeds and small bugs
🔊 Sound or move: Quacks
✨ Fun fact: A duck's feathers are waterproof, so water rolls right off its back.

Ages 3 to 7 More about the duck ›

🏠 Lives in: Farms
🍽️ Eats: Grain, seeds and bugs
🔊 Sound or move: Clucks, and the rooster crows
✨ Fun fact: A hen can lay about 300 eggs in a year.

Ages 3 to 7 More about the chicken ›

🏠 Lives in: Salty lakes and lagoons
🍽️ Eats: Tiny shrimp and algae
🔊 Sound or move: Honks like a goose
✨ Fun fact: Flamingos are pink because of the shrimp they eat, and they stand on one leg to stay warm.

Ages 3 to 10 More about the flamingo ›

🏠 Lives in: Gardens and forests of the Americas
🍽️ Eats: Flower nectar and tiny insects
🔊 Sound or move: Its wings hum as they beat
✨ Fun fact: A hummingbird beats its wings about 50 times a second and can fly backwards.

Ages 5 to 10 More about the hummingbird ›

🏠 Lives in: Lakes and fields across Canada
🍽️ Eats: Grass, grain and water plants
🔊 Sound or move: Honks
✨ Fun fact: Canada geese fly in a V shape to save energy on their long journeys south.

Ages 5 to 10 More about the canada goose ›

🏠 Lives in: Forests and parks in India
🍽️ Eats: Seeds, insects and small plants
🔊 Sound or move: A loud call that sounds like "may awe"
✨ Fun fact: A peacock's tail can have more than 200 shimmering feathers that it fans out to show off.

Ages 3 to 10 More about the peacock ›

🏠 Lives in: Forests
🍽️ Eats: Insects hiding under bark
🔊 Sound or move: Drums on trees with its beak
✨ Fun fact: A woodpecker can peck 20 times a second and has a special skull to protect its brain.

Ages 5 to 10 More about the woodpecker ›

🏠 Lives in: African grasslands
🍽️ Eats: Plants, seeds and insects
🔊 Sound or move: Booms and hisses
✨ Fun fact: The ostrich is the biggest bird on Earth and lays the biggest egg, but it cannot fly.

Ages 5 to 10 More about the ostrich ›

🏠 Lives in: Rainforests of Central and South America
🍽️ Eats: Fruit and berries
🔊 Sound or move: Croaks like a frog
✨ Fun fact: A toucan's giant beak is light as a sponge and helps keep it cool.

Ages 3 to 10 More about the toucan ›

🏠 Lives in: Lakes, rivers and ponds
🍽️ Eats: Water plants and grass
🔊 Sound or move: Hisses and honks
✨ Fun fact: Swans pick one partner and stay together for life.

Ages 3 to 8 More about the swan ›

🏠 Lives in: Coasts and lakes
🍽️ Eats: Fish
🔊 Sound or move: Grunts
✨ Fun fact: A pelican scoops up fish in the big pouch under its beak, which holds more than its tummy.

Ages 3 to 10 More about the pelican ›

🏠 Lives in: Forests of New Zealand
🍽️ Eats: Worms and insects
🔊 Sound or move: Whistles at night
✨ Fun fact: The kiwi cannot fly and has nostrils at the tip of its long beak to sniff out worms.

Ages 5 to 10 More about the kiwi ›

🏠 Lives in: Riverbanks
🍽️ Eats: Small fish
🔊 Sound or move: Sharp whistle
✨ Fun fact: A kingfisher dives straight into the water like an arrow to catch a fish.

Ages 5 to 10 More about the kingfisher ›

🏠 Lives in: Towns, farms and forests everywhere
🍽️ Eats: Almost anything
🔊 Sound or move: Caws
✨ Fun fact: Crows are among the cleverest birds and can use tools and remember faces.

Ages 5 to 10 More about the crow ›

🏠 Lives in: Cities and towns
🍽️ Eats: Seeds and crumbs
🔊 Sound or move: Coos
✨ Fun fact: Pigeons can find their way home from hundreds of kilometers away.

Ages 3 to 7 More about the pigeon ›

🏠 Lives in: Gardens, parks and streets
🍽️ Eats: Seeds and small insects
🔊 Sound or move: Chirps
✨ Fun fact: Sparrows take dust baths to keep their feathers clean.

Ages 3 to 7 More about the sparrow ›

🏠 Lives in: Forests and gardens of eastern Canada
🍽️ Eats: Acorns, nuts and seeds
🔊 Sound or move: A loud jay jay call
✨ Fun fact: A blue jay can copy the call of a hawk to scare other birds away from the feeder.

Ages 3 to 8 More about the blue jay ›

🏠 Lives in: Gardens and woods of North America
🍽️ Eats: Seeds, berries and insects
🔊 Sound or move: A bright cheer cheer song
✨ Fun fact: The bright red cardinal sings all year round, even in the snow.

Ages 3 to 8 More about the cardinal ›

🏠 Lives in: Forests and backyards across Canada
🍽️ Eats: Seeds and insects
🔊 Sound or move: Sings its name, chick a dee dee dee
✨ Fun fact: A chickadee hides thousands of seeds and remembers where every one is.

Ages 3 to 8 More about the chickadee ›

🏠 Lives in: Lakes across Canada
🍽️ Eats: Fish
🔊 Sound or move: A haunting wail across the lake
✨ Fun fact: The loon is on the Canadian one dollar coin, the loonie, and can dive 60 meters deep.

Ages 5 to 10 More about the loon ›

🏠 Lives in: Arctic tundra
🍽️ Eats: Lemmings and voles
🔊 Sound or move: Hoots and barks
✨ Fun fact: Snowy owls hunt in daylight and their white feathers hide them in the snow.

Ages 3 to 10 More about the snowy owl ›

🏠 Lives in: Coasts and rivers of Canada and the USA
🍽️ Eats: Fish
🔊 Sound or move: A high chirping call
✨ Fun fact: A bald eagle's nest can be as wide as a car and is used for many years.

Ages 5 to 10 More about the bald eagle ›

🏠 Lives in: Cold northern coasts
🍽️ Eats: Small fish
🔊 Sound or move: Growls like a tiny motor
✨ Fun fact: A puffin can hold a dozen little fish in its colorful beak at once.

Ages 3 to 10 More about the puffin ›

🏠 Lives in: Beaches and harbors
🍽️ Eats: Fish, crabs and chips it steals
🔊 Sound or move: Loud squawks
✨ Fun fact: Seagulls can drink salty sea water, something most animals cannot do.

Ages 3 to 7 More about the seagull ›

🏠 Lives in: Marshes and riverbanks
🍽️ Eats: Fish and frogs
🔊 Sound or move: A harsh croak
✨ Fun fact: A heron stands perfectly still, then strikes like lightning to catch a fish.

Ages 5 to 10 More about the heron ›

🏠 Lives in: Wetlands and rooftops of Europe
🍽️ Eats: Frogs, fish and insects
🔊 Sound or move: Clatters its beak
✨ Fun fact: Storks build huge nests on chimneys and come back to the same one every year.

Ages 5 to 10 More about the stork ›

🏠 Lives in: Farms and forests of North America
🍽️ Eats: Seeds, nuts and insects
🔊 Sound or move: Gobbles
✨ Fun fact: Wild turkeys can fly short distances and sleep in trees at night.

Ages 3 to 8 More about the turkey ›

🏠 Lives in: Farms, lakes and fields
🍽️ Eats: Grass and grain
🔊 Sound or move: Honks and hisses
✨ Fun fact: Geese are great guards and will honk loudly at anyone who comes near.

Ages 3 to 7 More about the goose ›

🏠 Lives in: Rainforests of South America
🍽️ Eats: Nuts, seeds and fruit
🔊 Sound or move: Screeches
✨ Fun fact: A macaw's beak is strong enough to crack a Brazil nut.

Ages 3 to 8 More about the macaw ›

🏠 Lives in: Forests of Australia
🍽️ Eats: Seeds, nuts and roots
🔊 Sound or move: Screeches and can mimic words
✨ Fun fact: A cockatoo raises its feathery crest when it is excited or surprised.

Ages 3 to 8 More about the cockatoo ›

🏠 Lives in: Grasslands of Australia, and homes as pets
🍽️ Eats: Seeds and leafy greens
🔊 Sound or move: Chirps and chatters
✨ Fun fact: Budgies are tiny parrots and some learn to say dozens of words.

Ages 3 to 7 More about the budgie ›

🏠 Lives in: Grasslands of Australia
🍽️ Eats: Plants, seeds and insects
🔊 Sound or move: Booms and drums
✨ Fun fact: The emu is the second tallest bird on Earth and the dads sit on the eggs.

Ages 5 to 10 More about the emu ›

🏠 Lives in: Mountains and open plains
🍽️ Eats: Animals that have already died
🔊 Sound or move: Hisses and grunts
✨ Fun fact: Vultures are nature's clean up crew and can soar for hours without flapping.

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🏠 Lives in: Open oceans of the south
🍽️ Eats: Squid and fish
🔊 Sound or move: Clacks its beak
✨ Fun fact: An albatross has the longest wings of any bird and can fly for days without landing.

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🏠 Lives in: Woods and hedges of Europe
🍽️ Eats: Insects and berries
🔊 Sound or move: One of the most beautiful songs of all
✨ Fun fact: The nightingale sings at night when most other birds are asleep.

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🐢 Reptiles

Reptiles have dry scaly skin, are cold blooded and most lay eggs.

🏠 Lives in: Ponds, rivers and oceans
🍽️ Eats: Plants, insects and jellyfish
🔊 Sound or move: Moves slowly and swims gracefully
✨ Fun fact: A turtle cannot leave its shell. The shell is part of its skeleton.

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🏠 Lives in: Rivers and swamps in warm places
🍽️ Eats: Fish, birds and big animals
🔊 Sound or move: Growls and hisses
✨ Fun fact: A crocodile can hold its breath under water for more than an hour.

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🏠 Lives in: Forests, deserts and grasslands
🍽️ Eats: Mice, frogs and eggs
🔊 Sound or move: Hisses and slithers
✨ Fun fact: Snakes smell with their tongues and swallow their food whole.

Ages 3 to 10 More about the snake ›

🏠 Lives in: Deserts, forests and gardens
🍽️ Eats: Insects and plants
🔊 Sound or move: Scurries fast over rocks
✨ Fun fact: Some lizards can drop their tail to escape and then grow a new one.

Ages 3 to 8 More about the lizard ›

🏠 Lives in: Rainforests of Africa and Madagascar
🍽️ Eats: Insects
🔊 Sound or move: Moves slowly and sways like a leaf
✨ Fun fact: A chameleon can change color and move each eye in a different direction.

Ages 5 to 10 More about the chameleon ›

🏠 Lives in: Warm places, often on walls
🍽️ Eats: Insects
🔊 Sound or move: Chirps and clicks
✨ Fun fact: Geckos can walk up glass and across ceilings thanks to tiny hairs on their toes.

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🏠 Lives in: Dry land, deserts and islands
🍽️ Eats: Grass, leaves and cactus
🔊 Sound or move: Plods along slowly
✨ Fun fact: Giant tortoises can live for more than 100 years.

Ages 3 to 10 More about the tortoise ›

🏠 Lives in: Islands in Indonesia
🍽️ Eats: Deer, pigs and other animals
🔊 Sound or move: Hisses
✨ Fun fact: The Komodo dragon is the biggest lizard in the world, as long as a small car.

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🏠 Lives in: Gardens and fields across Canada
🍽️ Eats: Worms, slugs and frogs
🔊 Sound or move: Slithers quietly
✨ Fun fact: Garter snakes sleep together in big groups through the Canadian winter.

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🏠 Lives in: Warm oceans
🍽️ Eats: Jellyfish, seagrass and sponges
🔊 Sound or move: Glides through the water
✨ Fun fact: Sea turtles swim thousands of kilometers and come back to the same beach to lay their eggs.

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🏠 Lives in: Swamps and rivers of the southern USA
🍽️ Eats: Fish, turtles and birds
🔊 Sound or move: Bellows and hisses
✨ Fun fact: You can tell an alligator from a crocodile by its wide, rounded snout.

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🏠 Lives in: Rainforests of Central and South America
🍽️ Eats: Leaves, flowers and fruit
🔊 Sound or move: Head bobs and tail whips
✨ Fun fact: Iguanas can fall from tall trees and land without getting hurt.

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🏠 Lives in: Deserts of Australia, and homes as pets
🍽️ Eats: Insects and vegetables
🔊 Sound or move: Waves its arm as a hello
✨ Fun fact: A bearded dragon puffs up the spiky beard under its chin when it wants to look big.

Ages 3 to 8 More about the bearded dragon ›

🏠 Lives in: Forests and grasslands of Africa, Asia and Australia
🍽️ Eats: Rats, birds and small animals
🔊 Sound or move: Hisses
✨ Fun fact: Pythons are some of the longest snakes in the world and squeeze their food instead of biting it.

Ages 6 to 10 More about the python ›

🏠 Lives in: Forests and fields of Asia and Africa
🍽️ Eats: Rodents, frogs and other snakes
🔊 Sound or move: Hisses and spreads its hood
✨ Fun fact: A cobra spreads the skin on its neck into a hood to look bigger when it is scared.

Ages 6 to 10 More about the cobra ›

🏠 Lives in: Deserts and dry hills of the Americas
🍽️ Eats: Mice and rats
🔊 Sound or move: Rattles its tail as a warning
✨ Fun fact: The rattle is made of old pieces of skin that click together, and it says keep away.

Ages 6 to 10 More about the rattlesnake ›

🏠 Lives in: Woods and meadows of North America
🍽️ Eats: Berries, mushrooms and worms
🔊 Sound or move: Quiet, pulls into its shell
✨ Fun fact: A box turtle can close its shell up tight like a box, with itself inside.

Ages 3 to 8 More about the box turtle ›

🏠 Lives in: Ponds and rivers of Canada
🍽️ Eats: Fish, frogs and water plants
🔊 Sound or move: Hisses and snaps
✨ Fun fact: Snapping turtles can live for over 100 years, and their eggs hatch into boys or girls depending on how warm the nest is.

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🏠 Lives in: Gardens and forests in warm places
🍽️ Eats: Insects and spiders
🔊 Sound or move: Scurries into leaf litter
✨ Fun fact: Many skinks have shiny blue tails that distract hungry birds.

Ages 5 to 10 More about the skink ›

🏠 Lives in: Africa, Asia and Australia
🍽️ Eats: Eggs, insects and small animals
🔊 Sound or move: Hisses and flicks its forked tongue
✨ Fun fact: Monitor lizards are clever and can count small numbers of snails.

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🏠 Lives in: Deserts of Asia, and homes as pets
🍽️ Eats: Crickets and mealworms
🔊 Sound or move: Chirps and squeaks
✨ Fun fact: A leopard gecko stores fat in its chubby tail for times when food is short.

Ages 3 to 8 More about the leopard gecko ›

🏠 Lives in: Rivers and swamps of South America
🍽️ Eats: Fish, caimans and capybaras
🔊 Sound or move: Hisses, mostly silent
✨ Fun fact: The green anaconda is the heaviest snake in the world and loves to swim.

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🐸 Amphibians

Amphibians start life in water with gills, then grow lungs and live on land too.

🏠 Lives in: Ponds, streams and wet forests
🍽️ Eats: Flies, moths and bugs
🔊 Sound or move: Croaks and ribbits
✨ Fun fact: A frog starts life as a tadpole with a tail and no legs.

Ages 3 to 8 More about the frog ›

🏠 Lives in: Gardens and fields
🍽️ Eats: Slugs, worms and insects
🔊 Sound or move: Trills and chirps
✨ Fun fact: Toads have bumpy dry skin and hop less than frogs. They walk instead.

Ages 3 to 8 More about the toad ›

🏠 Lives in: Damp forests and under logs
🍽️ Eats: Worms and insects
🔊 Sound or move: Silent, walks slowly
✨ Fun fact: A salamander can grow back a lost leg or even part of its tail.

Ages 5 to 10 More about the salamander ›

🏠 Lives in: Ponds and damp woods
🍽️ Eats: Tiny water creatures and insects
🔊 Sound or move: Wiggles through the water
✨ Fun fact: Newts spend part of the year in water and part on land.

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🏠 Lives in: Rainforests and leafy trees
🍽️ Eats: Insects
🔊 Sound or move: Peeps loudly at night
✨ Fun fact: Tree frogs have sticky pads on their toes so they can climb leaves and glass.

Ages 3 to 10 More about the tree frog ›

🏠 Lives in: Lakes near Mexico City
🍽️ Eats: Worms, insects and small fish
🔊 Sound or move: Silent, with feathery gills that wave
✨ Fun fact: An axolotl stays a water baby its whole life and always seems to smile.

Ages 5 to 10 More about the axolotl ›

🏠 Lives in: Wetlands across eastern Canada
🍽️ Eats: Tiny insects
🔊 Sound or move: A high peep that fills spring nights
✨ Fun fact: This frog is as small as a paper clip but its chorus can be heard a kilometer away.

Ages 5 to 10 More about the spring peeper ›

🏠 Lives in: Rainforests of Central and South America
🍽️ Eats: Ants and tiny bugs
🔊 Sound or move: Buzzes and trills
✨ Fun fact: Its bright colors warn other animals that it is not safe to eat.

Ages 5 to 10 More about the poison dart frog ›

🏠 Lives in: Ponds and lakes of North America
🍽️ Eats: Insects, fish and even small frogs
🔊 Sound or move: A deep jug o rum call
✨ Fun fact: The bullfrog is the biggest frog in North America and can jump ten times its length.

Ages 3 to 10 More about the bullfrog ›

🏠 Lives in: Damp forests of Europe
🍽️ Eats: Worms, slugs and insects
🔊 Sound or move: Silent
✨ Fun fact: Its bright yellow spots warn animals to leave it alone.

Ages 5 to 10 More about the fire salamander ›

🏠 Lives in: Rainforests of Central and South America
🍽️ Eats: Small insects
🔊 Sound or move: Soft peeps
✨ Fun fact: A glass frog has see through skin on its belly, so you can see its tiny heart beating.

Ages 5 to 10 More about the glass frog ›

🏠 Lives in: Underground in warm wet soil
🍽️ Eats: Worms and insects
🔊 Sound or move: Silent and hidden
✨ Fun fact: A caecilian looks like a big worm but it is an amphibian with a backbone.

Ages 7 to 10 More about the caecilian ›

🏠 Lives in: Forests across Canada
🍽️ Eats: Insects and spiders
🔊 Sound or move: Quacks like a duck
✨ Fun fact: A wood frog freezes solid in winter and thaws out alive in spring.

Ages 5 to 10 More about the wood frog ›

🏠 Lives in: Lakes and rivers of eastern Canada
🍽️ Eats: Crayfish, worms and small fish
🔊 Sound or move: Squeaks, a little like a puppy
✨ Fun fact: The mudpuppy keeps its feathery red gills its whole life and stays under water.

Ages 6 to 10 More about the mudpuppy ›

🐠 Fish and Sea Life

Fish breathe through gills and most are covered in scales. The ocean is home to many other amazing creatures too.

🏠 Lives in: Coral reefs in warm seas
🍽️ Eats: Algae and tiny sea creatures
🔊 Sound or move: Wiggles among the anemone
✨ Fun fact: Clownfish live safely inside a stinging sea anemone that would hurt other fish.

Ages 3 to 8 More about the clownfish ›

🏠 Lives in: Oceans around the world
🍽️ Eats: Fish, seals and squid
🔊 Sound or move: Swims silently and smoothly
✨ Fun fact: Sharks have been around longer than dinosaurs and can grow thousands of teeth in a lifetime.

Ages 3 to 10 More about the shark ›

🏠 Lives in: Deep oceans
🍽️ Eats: Krill and small fish
🔊 Sound or move: Sings long songs under water
✨ Fun fact: The blue whale is the biggest animal that has ever lived, longer than two school buses.

Ages 3 to 10 More about the whale ›

🏠 Lives in: Rocky seabeds and reefs
🍽️ Eats: Crabs and shellfish
🔊 Sound or move: Jets through the water
✨ Fun fact: An octopus has three hearts, blue blood and eight arms that can taste.

Ages 3 to 10 More about the octopus ›

🏠 Lives in: Seagrass and coral
🍽️ Eats: Tiny shrimp
🔊 Sound or move: Floats upright, tail curled
✨ Fun fact: Seahorse dads carry the eggs in a pouch until the babies hatch.

Ages 5 to 10 More about the seahorse ›

🏠 Lives in: Rock pools and the seabed
🍽️ Eats: Clams and mussels
🔊 Sound or move: Creeps on hundreds of tiny tube feet
✨ Fun fact: A starfish is not a fish. It has no brain and can grow back a lost arm.

Ages 3 to 8 More about the starfish ›

🏠 Lives in: Beaches and rock pools
🍽️ Eats: Almost anything it can find
🔊 Sound or move: Scuttles sideways
✨ Fun fact: A crab grows by shedding its shell and growing a bigger one.

Ages 3 to 8 More about the crab ›

🏠 Lives in: Oceans everywhere
🍽️ Eats: Tiny plankton
🔊 Sound or move: Drifts and pulses
✨ Fun fact: Jellyfish have no brain, heart or bones, and they have floated in the sea for 500 million years.

Ages 5 to 10 More about the jellyfish ›

🏠 Lives in: Rivers and the Pacific Ocean
🍽️ Eats: Insects, shrimp and small fish
🔊 Sound or move: Leaps up waterfalls
✨ Fun fact: Salmon swim back to the exact stream where they were born to lay their eggs.

Ages 5 to 10 More about the salmon ›

🏠 Lives in: Warm shallow seas
🍽️ Eats: Shellfish and algae
🔊 Sound or move: Puffs up like a ball
✨ Fun fact: When scared, a pufferfish gulps water and swells up so it is too big to swallow.

Ages 5 to 10 More about the pufferfish ›

🏠 Lives in: Pacific coast of Canada
🍽️ Eats: Sea urchins, clams and crabs
🔊 Sound or move: Squeaks and chirps
✨ Fun fact: Sea otters hold hands while they sleep so they do not drift apart.

Ages 3 to 10 More about the sea otter ›

🏠 Lives in: Warm oceans
🍽️ Eats: Tiny plankton and small fish
🔊 Sound or move: Glides slowly with its huge mouth open
✨ Fun fact: The whale shark is the biggest fish in the sea, but it is as gentle as a cow.

Ages 6 to 10 More about the whale shark ›

🏠 Lives in: Ponds, and fish tanks at home
🍽️ Eats: Fish flakes, peas and algae
🔊 Sound or move: Silent, with gulping mouth
✨ Fun fact: Goldfish can remember things for months and recognize the person who feeds them.

Ages 3 to 7 More about the goldfish ›

🏠 Lives in: Coral reefs and the Amazon river
🍽️ Eats: Tiny shrimp and algae
🔊 Sound or move: Glides slowly
✨ Fun fact: Angelfish are thin like a plate so they can slip between coral.

Ages 3 to 8 More about the angelfish ›

🏠 Lives in: Warm and cool oceans
🍽️ Eats: Squid and fish
🔊 Sound or move: Slashes with its long bill
✨ Fun fact: A swordfish can swim faster than a speedboat and uses its sword to stun fish.

Ages 5 to 10 More about the swordfish ›

🏠 Lives in: Rivers and the deep sea
🍽️ Eats: Small fish and worms
🔊 Sound or move: Wriggles like a ribbon
✨ Fun fact: Some eels swim all the way across the ocean to lay their eggs.

Ages 5 to 10 More about the eel ›

🏠 Lives in: Warm open oceans
🍽️ Eats: Plankton
🔊 Sound or move: Flaps its wings like a bird
✨ Fun fact: A manta ray can be as wide as a car and leaps right out of the water.

Ages 5 to 10 More about the manta ray ›

🏠 Lives in: Rocky seabeds of the North Atlantic
🍽️ Eats: Clams, snails and small fish
🔊 Sound or move: Clicks its claws
✨ Fun fact: Lobsters can live for 50 years and keep growing their whole lives.

Ages 3 to 10 More about the lobster ›

🏠 Lives in: Oceans, rivers and ponds
🍽️ Eats: Tiny plants and bits of food
🔊 Sound or move: Snaps and flicks its tail
✨ Fun fact: Shrimp swim backwards by flicking their tails.

Ages 3 to 8 More about the shrimp ›

🏠 Lives in: Oceans everywhere
🍽️ Eats: Fish and shrimp
🔊 Sound or move: Jets backwards and squirts ink
✨ Fun fact: A squid shoots a cloud of ink to hide, then jets away.

Ages 3 to 10 More about the squid ›

🏠 Lives in: Pacific coasts
🍽️ Eats: Fish and squid
🔊 Sound or move: Barks loudly
✨ Fun fact: Sea lions can walk on land using their flippers, unlike seals that wiggle.

Ages 3 to 8 More about the sea lion ›

🏠 Lives in: Icy Arctic seas near Canada
🍽️ Eats: Fish, squid and shrimp
🔊 Sound or move: Clicks and whistles
✨ Fun fact: The narwhal's long tusk is a tooth, which is why people call it the unicorn of the sea.

Ages 5 to 10 More about the narwhal ›

🏠 Lives in: Arctic waters and Hudson Bay
🍽️ Eats: Fish, squid and shrimp
🔊 Sound or move: Chirps, squeaks and whistles
✨ Fun fact: Belugas are nicknamed sea canaries because they are so chatty.

Ages 3 to 10 More about the beluga whale ›

🏠 Lives in: Oceans, including the coast of BC
🍽️ Eats: Krill and small fish
🔊 Sound or move: Sings long songs
✨ Fun fact: A humpback leaps clear out of the water and its song can last for hours.

Ages 3 to 10 More about the humpback whale ›

🏠 Lives in: Warm coastal seas
🍽️ Eats: Fish, squid and stingrays
🔊 Sound or move: Glides silently
✨ Fun fact: A hammerhead's wide head lets it see almost all the way around itself.

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🏠 Lives in: Warm shallow seas
🍽️ Eats: Tiny plankton
🔊 Sound or move: Sways gently
✨ Fun fact: Coral looks like a plant but it is made of thousands of tiny animals living together.

Ages 5 to 10 More about the coral ›

🏠 Lives in: Rocky seabeds
🍽️ Eats: Algae
🔊 Sound or move: Creeps on tiny tube feet
✨ Fun fact: A sea urchin is a round ball of spikes, and its mouth is on the bottom.

Ages 5 to 10 More about the sea urchin ›

🏠 Lives in: Rivers of South America
🍽️ Eats: Fish, insects and seeds
🔊 Sound or move: Snaps its sharp teeth
✨ Fun fact: Piranhas are much shyer than their reputation, and many eat plants.

Ages 6 to 10 More about the piranha ›

🏠 Lives in: Sandy seabeds in warm seas
🍽️ Eats: Clams, shrimp and crabs
🔊 Sound or move: Flaps along the sand
✨ Fun fact: A stingray hides under the sand with only its eyes peeking out.

Ages 5 to 10 More about the stingray ›

🏠 Lives in: Cold clear rivers and lakes
🍽️ Eats: Insects and small fish
🔊 Sound or move: Leaps for flies
✨ Fun fact: Trout can see colors and jump out of the water to catch flies.

Ages 3 to 8 More about the trout ›

🐝 Insects and Bugs

Insects have six legs and three body parts. Spiders and snails are bugs but not insects.

🏠 Lives in: Hives in gardens and fields
🍽️ Eats: Nectar and pollen from flowers
🔊 Sound or move: Buzzes
✨ Fun fact: A honeybee visits about 100 flowers on one trip, and bees dance to tell each other where the flowers are.

Ages 3 to 10 More about the honeybee ›

🏠 Lives in: Gardens, meadows and forests
🍽️ Eats: Flower nectar
🔊 Sound or move: Flutters silently
✨ Fun fact: A butterfly starts as a caterpillar and tastes with its feet.

Ages 3 to 8 More about the butterfly ›

🏠 Lives in: Gardens and leafy plants
🍽️ Eats: Tiny aphids
🔊 Sound or move: Crawls and flies
✨ Fun fact: Ladybugs are a gardener's friend because they eat the bugs that harm plants.

Ages 3 to 7 More about the ladybug ›

🏠 Lives in: Underground nests almost everywhere
🍽️ Eats: Seeds, crumbs and sweet things
🔊 Sound or move: Marches in a line
✨ Fun fact: An ant can carry something 50 times heavier than itself.

Ages 3 to 8 More about the ant ›

🏠 Lives in: Ponds and rivers
🍽️ Eats: Mosquitoes and flies
🔊 Sound or move: Zips and hovers
✨ Fun fact: Dragonflies can fly in every direction, even backwards, and their eyes see almost all around.

Ages 5 to 10 More about the dragonfly ›

🏠 Lives in: Grassy fields
🍽️ Eats: Grass and leaves
🔊 Sound or move: Chirps by rubbing its legs
✨ Fun fact: A grasshopper can jump 20 times its own length.

Ages 3 to 8 More about the grasshopper ›

🏠 Lives in: Corners, gardens and forests
🍽️ Eats: Flies and other insects
🔊 Sound or move: Spins silk quietly
✨ Fun fact: Spiders are not insects. They have eight legs, and their silk is stronger than steel of the same thickness.

Ages 5 to 10 More about the spider ›

🏠 Lives in: Damp gardens
🍽️ Eats: Leaves and plants
🔊 Sound or move: Slides on a trail of slime
✨ Fun fact: A snail carries its home on its back and can sleep for months in dry weather.

Ages 3 to 7 More about the snail ›

🏠 Lives in: Meadows and woods on summer nights
🍽️ Eats: Nectar and pollen
🔊 Sound or move: Blinks its light
✨ Fun fact: Fireflies make light with no heat and flash in patterns to talk to each other.

Ages 5 to 10 More about the firefly ›

🏠 Lives in: Milkweed fields across Canada
🍽️ Eats: Milkweed as a caterpillar, nectar as a butterfly
🔊 Sound or move: Glides on orange wings
✨ Fun fact: Monarchs fly all the way from Canada to Mexico for the winter, thousands of kilometers.

Ages 6 to 10 More about the monarch butterfly ›

🏠 Lives in: Gardens and meadows
🍽️ Eats: Nectar and pollen
🔊 Sound or move: A deep buzz
✨ Fun fact: A bumblebee shivers its wings to warm up before it flies on a cold morning.

Ages 3 to 8 More about the bumblebee ›

🏠 Lives in: Leaves and plants
🍽️ Eats: Leaves, leaves and more leaves
🔊 Sound or move: Munches quietly
✨ Fun fact: A caterpillar eats so much that it grows thousands of times bigger before becoming a butterfly or moth.

Ages 3 to 7 More about the caterpillar ›

🏠 Lives in: Gardens and woods at night
🍽️ Eats: Nectar, and some eat nothing as adults
🔊 Sound or move: Flutters toward lights
✨ Fun fact: Moths find flowers in the dark with their feathery antennae.

Ages 3 to 8 More about the moth ›

🏠 Lives in: Fields and under logs
🍽️ Eats: Plants, fungi and crumbs
🔊 Sound or move: Chirps by rubbing its wings
✨ Fun fact: You can tell the temperature by counting cricket chirps, they chirp faster when it is warm.

Ages 5 to 10 More about the cricket ›

🏠 Lives in: Gardens and bushes in warm places
🍽️ Eats: Flies, moths and grasshoppers
🔊 Sound or move: Silent, stands very still
✨ Fun fact: A praying mantis can turn its head to look right over its shoulder.

Ages 5 to 10 More about the praying mantis ›

🏠 Lives in: Bushes and trees in warm places
🍽️ Eats: Leaves
🔊 Sound or move: Sways like a twig in the wind
✨ Fun fact: A stick insect looks exactly like a twig so birds cannot find it.

Ages 3 to 10 More about the stick insect ›

🏠 Lives in: Everywhere on land
🍽️ Eats: Plants, wood or other insects
🔊 Sound or move: Scuttles and buzzes
✨ Fun fact: There are more kinds of beetles than any other animal, about 400,000.

Ages 5 to 10 More about the beetle ›

🏠 Lives in: Near still water
🍽️ Eats: Nectar, and the females drink blood
🔊 Sound or move: A high whine
✨ Fun fact: Only the mom mosquitoes bite, and they use the blood to make eggs.

Ages 5 to 10 More about the mosquito ›

🏠 Lives in: Soil in gardens and fields
🍽️ Eats: Dead leaves and soil
🔊 Sound or move: Silent, wriggles
✨ Fun fact: Earthworms make soil healthy by digging tunnels and have no eyes at all.

Ages 3 to 8 More about the earthworm ›

🏠 Lives in: Underground and in wood in warm places
🍽️ Eats: Wood
🔊 Sound or move: Clicks its head to warn the nest
✨ Fun fact: Termites build mud towers taller than a giraffe with air tunnels inside.

Ages 6 to 10 More about the termite ›

🏠 Lives in: Deserts and dry places
🍽️ Eats: Insects and spiders
🔊 Sound or move: Silent, raises its tail
✨ Fun fact: Scorpions glow blue green under ultraviolet light.

Ages 6 to 10 More about the scorpion ›

🏠 Lives in: Under rocks and logs
🍽️ Eats: Insects and spiders
🔊 Sound or move: Scurries fast
✨ Fun fact: Centipede means a hundred feet, but most have between 30 and 350 legs.

Ages 5 to 10 More about the centipede ›

🏠 Lives in: Gardens, trees and eaves
🍽️ Eats: Insects, fruit and sweet things
🔊 Sound or move: Buzzes
✨ Fun fact: Wasps chew wood into paper to build their nests.

Ages 5 to 10 More about the wasp ›

🏠 Lives in: Deserts and rainforests
🍽️ Eats: Insects, and sometimes small frogs
🔊 Sound or move: Silent and hairy
✨ Fun fact: Tarantulas look scary but are gentle and can live for 25 years.

Ages 6 to 10 More about the tarantula ›

🏠 Lives in: Trees in summer
🍽️ Eats: Tree sap
🔊 Sound or move: The loudest insect buzz of summer
✨ Fun fact: Some cicadas live underground for 17 years before coming out to sing.

Ages 5 to 10 More about the cicada ›

🏠 Lives in: Ponds and calm streams
🍽️ Eats: Insects that fall onto the water
🔊 Sound or move: Skates across the surface
✨ Fun fact: Water striders have waterproof legs that let them walk on water.

Ages 5 to 10 More about the water strider ›

🦖 Dinosaurs

Dinosaurs lived millions of years ago. We know them from their fossil bones, eggs and footprints.

🏠 Lives in: Forests of North America, 66 million years ago
🍽️ Eats: Other dinosaurs
🔊 Sound or move: A deep rumbling growl
✨ Fun fact: T rex had teeth as long as bananas but arms shorter than yours.

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🏠 Lives in: Plains of North America, 66 million years ago
🍽️ Eats: Plants and ferns
🔊 Sound or move: Grunts and bellows
✨ Fun fact: Triceratops had three horns and a big bony frill, and lived at the same time as T rex.

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🏠 Lives in: Forests of North America, 150 million years ago
🍽️ Eats: Low plants and ferns
🔊 Sound or move: Low grunts
✨ Fun fact: Stegosaurus had big plates on its back and a brain the size of a walnut.

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🏠 Lives in: Floodplains of North America, 150 million years ago
🍽️ Eats: Leaves from the tops of tall trees
🔊 Sound or move: Deep rumbles
✨ Fun fact: Brachiosaurus was as tall as a four storey building and its front legs were longer than its back legs.

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🏠 Lives in: Deserts of Mongolia, 75 million years ago
🍽️ Eats: Small animals and lizards
🔊 Sound or move: Chirps and hisses
✨ Fun fact: A real velociraptor was only the size of a turkey and had feathers.

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🏠 Lives in: North America, 68 million years ago
🍽️ Eats: Low plants
🔊 Sound or move: Grunts
✨ Fun fact: Ankylosaurus was covered in armour like a tank and had a heavy club on its tail.

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🏠 Lives in: Skies over North America, 85 million years ago
🍽️ Eats: Fish
🔊 Sound or move: Screeches
✨ Fun fact: Pteranodon was not a dinosaur but a flying reptile with wings as wide as a small plane.

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🏠 Lives in: Rivers of North Africa, 95 million years ago
🍽️ Eats: Fish, and lots of them
🔊 Sound or move: Growls and hisses
✨ Fun fact: Spinosaurus was even longer than T rex and loved to swim.

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🏠 Lives in: North America, 150 million years ago
🍽️ Eats: Ferns and soft plants
🔊 Sound or move: Cracked its whip like tail
✨ Fun fact: Diplodocus was longer than two school buses, mostly neck and tail.

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🏠 Lives in: North America, 75 million years ago
🍽️ Eats: Leaves and pine needles
🔊 Sound or move: Honked through the tube on its head
✨ Fun fact: The long tube on its head worked like a trumpet to call its herd.

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🏠 Lives in: Alberta, Canada, 70 million years ago
🍽️ Eats: Other dinosaurs
🔊 Sound or move: Roars
✨ Fun fact: Albertosaurus was a cousin of T rex and was found in Alberta, which is where it got its name.

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🏠 Lives in: Europe, 125 million years ago
🍽️ Eats: Plants
🔊 Sound or move: Bellows
✨ Fun fact: Iguanodon had a sharp thumb spike and could walk on two legs or four.

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🐶 Pets

Pets are animals that live with families. They need food, water, a safe place and lots of kindness.

🏠 Lives in: Homes all around the world
🍽️ Eats: Puppy food and lots of water
🔊 Sound or move: Yips and whimpers
✨ Fun fact: Puppies are born with their eyes closed and open them after about two weeks.

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🏠 Lives in: Homes all around the world
🍽️ Eats: Kitten food and milk from its mom
🔊 Sound or move: Tiny mews
✨ Fun fact: A kitten purrs when it is happy and even when it is a little scared.

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🏠 Lives in: Homes, in a big cage with toys
🍽️ Eats: Pellets, fruit and vegetables
🔊 Sound or move: Whistles and talks
✨ Fun fact: Pet parrots can live for 50 years, so they can be a friend for life.

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🏠 Lives in: Farms and stables
🍽️ Eats: Hay, grass and oats
🔊 Sound or move: Neighs and nickers
✨ Fun fact: A pony is a small horse, and it loves apples and carrots as treats.

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🏠 Lives in: Homes with a warm sunny spot
🍽️ Eats: Leafy greens and dandelions
🔊 Sound or move: Slow and quiet
✨ Fun fact: A pet tortoise can live longer than the people who look after it.

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🏠 Lives in: Fish tanks at home
🍽️ Eats: Fish pellets
🔊 Sound or move: Flares its fins
✨ Fun fact: A betta fish builds a nest of bubbles at the top of its tank.

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🏠 Lives in: Homes and hutches
🍽️ Eats: Hay, greens and a few pellets
🔊 Sound or move: Purrs by grinding its teeth gently
✨ Fun fact: A happy bunny does a jump and twist in the air called a binky.

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🏠 Lives in: Mountains of South America, and homes as pets
🍽️ Eats: Hay and special pellets
🔊 Sound or move: Squeaks and barks
✨ Fun fact: A chinchilla has the softest fur of any animal and takes baths in dust, not water.

Ages 5 to 10 More about the chinchilla ›

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