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PBS: Cheetahs in a Hot Spot
"This beautiful PBS site is the Web companion to the television program which originally aired in February, 2000. The site focuses on three cheetah topics: Fast Cats (""how cheetahsare built for speed""), Deadly Hunters (""the art of stalking, cheetah-style"") and Finding a Home (""efforts to protect and relocate these endangered animals""). For those interested in learning more about Namibia, where most of the world’s remaining cheetahs now live, the Resource page has some good links."
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PBS.com: Dolphins: Close Encounters
"Each year, millions of fans pay to watch -- and even swim with -- [dolphins] their favorite animal. But the dolphin’s popularity also raises a troubling question: are these captive performers our willing partners -- or our prisoners? Visit this PBS site to explore this controversy with experts from both sides of the argument, and to learn how dolphins use sonar to hunt and communicate. Best clicks are the two QuickTime movies, one in At Home in the Sea, and the other in Partners or Prisoners?"
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Patsy Ann: Official Greeter of Juneau, Alaska"
Reviewed by beverly a reader from Vancouver, BC, Canada who is affiliated with the site. The charming tale of a famous dog in Alaskan history, Patsy Ann’s site features a special "Kids ’N Teacher’s" section, where you can find out how old you are in dog years and take the interactive DogStar quiz. Patsy Ann also features a free dog memorial site, Gone to DogStar, where you can remember your canine friend for free.
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Pandas at the National Zoo
"Highlights of this site from Washington, D.C. are the live streaming Panda Cams (with audio from panda-watching crowd), panda postcards, and the For Kids section. For Kids has two printable panda coloring pages, two crossword puzzles, and the fabulous "Saving Giant Pandas" activity book. If you are planning a visit to the National Zoo, be sure to print out the activity book and take it with you. It includes an observation log to be completed at the Panda exhibit, and answers to frequently asked questions."
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Painting Pachyderms
"Don Redfox, the elephant manager at the Toledo Zoo, decided to teach his elephants to paint after he saw a painting elephant from the San Diego Zoo on television. The Toledo elephants paint on easels, holding the brushes with their trunks. "Many zoos don’t teach their elephantsto paint because it’s unnatural. It’s not something they do in the wild. (Obviously. Where would they get the paints?) But others feel it helps ease the boredom of captivity.""
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Otternet
A Surfnetkids Honorable Mention site.
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Otter Project
"The southern sea otter is both an umbrella species and a keystone species. As an umbrella species, protections created for the sea otter and its habitat will benefit a large variety of other species. As a keystone species, the otter is responsible for much of the structure of the ecosystem in which it lives. The Otter Project site excels in explaining the sea otter’s role in nature. It also features sea otter current events."
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Oregon Coast Aquarium
"Best clicks are those listed in the blue What’s Online menu: Passages of the Deep (three new exhibits created from the tank where Keiko the killer whale lived before he moved to a Norwegian fjord), Seahorse Surreal, Those that Sting (jellyfish) and Sharks vs. Dolphins. ""Today, we settle that age-old debate once and for all . . . which are cooler, dolphins or sharks?"" You’ll need a sense of humor to agree with their conclusion, but in addition to the feature story, this fabulous section includes an online quiz, printable coloring pages and classroom worksheets."
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Orca Live
August 4, 2004: From Tannis, a reader from Victoria, BC Canada, who is not affiliated with the site. "Awesome to see whales live in their natural habitat. If you can’t see them, sometimes you can listen to them communicate with each other. There are above water and underwater views of them when they are near. You can also subscribe so that when whales are near the cameras, they will email you an alert."
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Operation RubyThroat: The Hummingbird Project
Reviewed January 12, 2001 by Bill Hilton Jr., a teacher from York, South Carolina who is affiliated with the site: "Everybody loves hummingbirds, and these tiny feathered dynamos can be used to help students learn about science, math, geography, culture, and virtually any academic discipline. Operation RubyThroat is an award-winning cross-disciplinary project in which K-12 students, teachers, and others in the U.S., Canada, Mexico, and Central America collaborate to study behavior and distribution of the ruby- throated hummingbird."
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