Animals

Key to Invertebrates Found At or Near The Walla Walla College Marine Station (Rosario, Fidalgo Island, Anacortes, WA)  Nice sets of illustrated keys for local waters.

MBL Marine Invertebrate KEYS  This site links to dichotomous keys to the invertebrates of the northeastern United States.  Some work more or less here in the Pacific Northwest

Cephalopods  Octopi, Squid, Cuttlefish and the extinct Ammonites from the Tree of Life web site

3-D INSECTS  An odd site at the Department of Entomology at Virginia Tech University, with manipulatable, computer-rendered insects.  Requires a VRML viewer (and the image files are quite large)

See how they itch  A cute little page with a crawling dust mite from the Cells Alive site.

Key to soil litter arthropods in Missouri

Ocean Planet  This is a great site:  home of a recent Smithsonian exhibit covering the over 99 percent of living space on earth that is in the ocean.  Enter the Exhibition.  Then try one of the Curator Special Tours first.

Frog Calls  A site about midwest frogs sponsered by the Chicago Herpetological Society

Tweeters Birding Email  The best local birding contact

Bird song display list  "wav" files of common bird songs

National Zoo  For photographs and information about individual animals, click on Animal Photos (mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and invertebrates), then click on the photo album icon in the menu to the left.  Several live web cams feature a few of the animals.

Wild Cam Africa  A web cam maintained by the National Geographic Soicety at a watering hole in Botswana.  Best viewing times are 1-5 pm PST (night-time) and 9pm-1 am PST(early morning)

The Hairy Museum of Natural History  Tongue in cheek, intelligent comments about many aspects of animal evolution, including Ray Troll's Hall of Ich-theology.