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Animals: Zoo

Information and photos about just about any animal can be studied at Cyberark...

At the National Zoo's website, you can solve jigsaw puzzles and crossword puzzles, take a virtual world tour, send an e-card, learn about animals and their names.

Petstation offers an online forum and bookstore where every resource is about pets.

NetVet, an electronic zoo, is an in-depth aide about caring for pets.

The Smithsonian Institute maintains our national zoo.

If your dog wishes a Web site of his/her own, look at Dogster.

Switch Zoo encourages students to re-arrange parts of animals into new animals. An interesting perspective.

A virtual visit to the online Bronx zoo includes a conferencing capability.

In contrast to zoos is a wonderful site called Animal Detector; it describes a family who left enticing food on the back porch at night so they could study nocturnal animals.

Zoos are a popular topic for younger students.None of these sites offers more than a similar published book.Altogether, though, the contents are probably more comprehensive than you would find in a medium-sized library.