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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

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Key People

Karl von Frisch

Austrian zoologist

Konrad Lorenz

Konrad Lorenz

Austrian zoologist

Temple Grandin

Temple Grandin

American scientist and industrial designer

Donald Redfield Griffin

American biophysicist

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

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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)

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Mute swan with cygnet. (birds)

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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

Demystified

Praying mantis (sphodromantis gastrica)

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