SCRUB FOREST |
COASTAL WATERS |
North Island Brown Kiwi |
Saltwater Crocodile |
Description: flightless bird
Range:
New Zealand
Habitat: forest, scrub, overgrown farmland
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Links: Smithsonian National Zoo
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Description: The largest living
reptile. Adult males may reach 23 feet. Females reach 10 feet. Can travel
a great distance over open sea.
Range: Between northern Australia and the southern coast
of India
Habitat: Coastal waters
Diet: These carnivorous crocs will eat anything. The bigger they
are, the bigger the animals they eat.
Reproduction: Lay eggs in freshwater.
Links:
The Big
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DESERTS |
TEMPERATE RAINFOREST |
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Frilled Lizard |
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Description:
Range: Australia; Papua New Guinea
Habitat: Temperate Rainforest
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Red-eyed-Tree
Frog |
Thorny Devil |
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Range: Australia
Habitat: Desert
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Red and Green Macaw |
Western Brown Snake |
Description:
Length to
34 inches
Range: Southern Mexico to tropical South America
Habitat: Lowland tropical forest and savanna
Diet: Fruit, nuts, seeds and nectar
Reproduction: Nests in large cavities in dead trees
Links: Smithsonian National Zoo
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Description: Length - up to 1.5 m (5 feet)
Range: Australia
Habitat: Desert and other hot
regions of Australia
Diet: carnivorous; small animals
Reproduction: Lays 20-40 eggs per clutch
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Emerald Tree Boa |
Red Poison-Arrow Frog |
Description:
Range: South America
Habitat: Tree-tops of the tropical rain forest
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Description: Many variation in
coloration and pattern
Range: western Ecuador, north through Colombia
Habitat: tropical rainforests
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Toco Toucan |
Rainbow Lorikeet |
Description:
Range: Lowlands of Brazil, Guianas, Peru, Bolivia,
Paraguay, Argentina
Habitat: woodland, second growth, palm groves
and rainforests of Guiana to Bolivia and northern Argentina
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Links:
Smithsonian National Zoological Park
The Aviary
WhoZoo:
Toco Toucan
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Description:
Range: Northern and eastern Australia and
islands
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Rainbow Lorikeet
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Nile Monitor |
Gila Monster |
Description:
4.5 to 7 feet in length
Range: Africa
Habitat:
Diet: Carnivorous predator
Reproduction:
Links:
Science News for Kids:
Alien Invasions |
Description: USA's largest lizard
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Galapagos Marine
Iguana |
Green Iguana |
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Habitat: Arboreal (Lives in trees); temperate forests and
Rainforests
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Great White Shark |
Sulphur-crested Cockatoo |
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Emu |
King Penguin |
Description:
Range: Australia
Habitat: plains, scrub, open woodland, coastal heath,
alpine pastures, semi-desert
Diet:
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Links: Smithsonian National Zoo
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Description:
Range: sub-Antarctic islands
Habitat: Barren sea coasts
Diet: All food comes from the ocean.
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Laughing Kookaburra |
Black Sea Turtle |
Description:
Range: lowlands of southeastern Australia
Habitat: open woodland, forest, farmlands, orchards,
towns
Diet: It feeds primarily on snakes, large lizards, worms,
snails, insects, fresh water crayfish, frogs, small birds and rodents.
Reproduction:
Links:
Smithsonian National Zoo
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Green Sea Turtle |
Hawksbill Sea Turtle |
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Green Frog |
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Description:
Range: Near-arctic region: Canada, eastern United States
Habitat: wide variety of habitats that surround most
inland waters, such as: swamps, wooded swamps, ponds, lakes, marshes,
bogs, banks of slow moving rivers and streams, oxbow lakes, sloughs, and
impoundments.
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Tuatura |
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