Welcome to GeoZoo, the foundation of one of the most ambitious animal websites on the Internet. GeoZoo currently consists largely of a database with the scientific names of over 50,000 vertebrate species. There are also a few finished articles in the Topics section. More information and features will be added as time allows.
You can start by reading an introduction to Life or an overview of the kingdoms Plantae, Fungi, Protista or Monera. However, GeoZoo focuses on the animal kingdom...
Similarly, you can read introductions to the roughly three dozen animal phyla, though GeoZoo focuses primarily on the phylum Chordata. It especially focuses on the subphylum Vertebrata, which includes seven classes of animals:
1. Animalia > Chordata > Vertebrata > Mammalia
2. animals > chordates > vertebrates > mammals
But GeoZoo also includes some information about invertebrates, especially insects, arachnids, crustaceans, mollusks and some other marine invertebrates.
1. Animalia > Arthropoda > Insecta
2. animals > arthropods > insects
1. Animalia > Mollusca > Cephalopda
2. animals > molluscs > squids, octopuses and relatives
You can search the Life section for information about particular species, families, orders, etc. The stacks are complemented by articles about distribution, diet, behavior and other Topics, along with a Reference, which includes an Animal Glossary. You may also be interested in the World section or the Animals Calendar.
And remember — just about every article on this site comes in two flavors, adults and children.
I hope you enjoy GeoZoo (preferably using the fabulous Firefox browser). More important, I hope you learn from it. I also hope you will be inspired to get involved politically. For animals have never been more threatened, and we can never fix problems like global warming until we defeat corporate corruption. To put it another way, we’ll never save the rainforest if we can’t even reform the school board in our own backyard.
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