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Charles Darwin
Ivan Pavlov
honeybee
stickleback
sex-linked inheritance
types of natural selection
European, or common, starling
Sparrow
Observe an anole change its skin colour for camouflage and fan its dewlap to mark possession or attract a mate
Learn about bats' roosting, flying, and dietary habits and their echolocation sense
Survival struggles in a meerkat colony
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Konrad Lorenz
Konrad Lorenz
Austrian zoologist
Temple Grandin
Temple Grandin
American scientist and industrial designer
Karl von Frisch
Austrian zoologist
C. Lloyd Morgan
British zoologist and psychologist
Theodore Christian Schneirla
American animal psychologist
Nikolaas Tinbergen
Dutch zoologist
Lubbock, John, 1st Baron Avebury
John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury
British banker, politician, and naturalist
Donald Redfield Griffin
American biophysicist

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Mute swan with cygnet. (birds)
Match the Baby Animal to Its Mama Quiz
Sea otter (Enhydra lutris), also called great sea otter, rare, completely marine otter of the northern Pacific, usually found in kelp beds. Floats on back. Looks like sea otter laughing. saltwater otters
Animal Group Names
vulture. An adult bearded vulture at a raptor recovery center. The Gypaetus barbatus also known as the Lammergeier or Lammergeyer, is a bird of prey and considered an Old World vulture.
Animal Factoids
Lion (panthera leo)
Deadliest Animals Quiz
Demystified
Praying mantis (sphodromantis gastrica)
Why Do Some Animals Eat Their Mates After Sex?