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It breeds in summer on rocky, ice-free ground all around Antarctica, building nests of pebbles, and spends the winter far out at sea among the pack ice.","path":"/discover/animals/adelie-penguin","category":"birds","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/adelie-penguin-480.webp?v=5d022153c7c20dc0","alt":"Ad\u00E9lie penguin , Hope Bay, Trinity Peninsula, on the northernmost tip of the Antarctic Peninsula","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:birds","tag:penguin","tag:antarctic","tag:pebble-nest","tag:swimmer","tag:colony","habitat:antarctic","continent:antarctica","subgroup:penguin","iucn:lc"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:african-buffalo","kind":"animal","title":"African buffalo","summary":"The African buffalo is a huge, cow-like grazer with heavy, curving horns. It lives in herds that can number in the thousands, and a herd will rush to protect a calf in danger. It lives across much of Africa south of the Sahara, from open savannas to rainforests.","path":"/discover/animals/african-buffalo","category":"mammals","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/african-buffalo-480.webp?v=b672534e53660874","alt":"An African Buffalo Bull","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:mammals","tag:savanna","tag:herds","tag:horns","tag:grazer","habitat:african-savanna","habitat:grasslands","continent:africa","subgroup:hoofed","iucn:nt"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:african-fish-eagle","kind":"animal","title":"African fish eagle","summary":"The African fish eagle is a big eagle of Africa\u0027s lakes, rivers and coasts, with a white head, chest and tail and a chestnut-brown body. It snatches fish from the surface of the water, and its loud, ringing call is one of the best-known sounds of Africa.","path":"/discover/animals/african-fish-eagle","category":"birds","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/african-fish-eagle-480.webp?v=4843876f4ec90354","alt":"African fish eagle , Lake Ziway, Ethiopia","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:birds","tag:bird-of-prey","tag:raptor","tag:eagle","tag:lakes-and-rivers","tag:fish-eater","tag:loud-call","habitat:wetlands","habitat:african-savanna","continent:africa","subgroup:raptor","iucn:lc"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:african-forest-elephant","kind":"animal","title":"African forest elephant","summary":"The African forest elephant is a separate species from the bigger bush elephant. It lives in the rainforests of central and western Africa, eats lots of fruit and spreads the seeds of forest trees in its dung. It is Critically Endangered.","path":"/discover/animals/african-forest-elephant","category":"mammals","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/african-forest-elephant-480.webp?v=5b74d6c9ee3c7e16","alt":"Forest elephants in the swamp Mbeli Bai, Nouabal\u00E9-Ndoki National Park, Congo","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:mammals","tag:rainforest","tag:critically-endangered","tag:seed-disperser","tag:elephants","habitat:wetlands","continent:africa","subgroup:elephant","iucn:cr"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:african-penguin","kind":"animal","title":"African penguin","summary":"The African penguin is a penguin of warm, sunny coasts. It lives only in South Africa and Namibia, nests in burrows and under bushes, and hunts sardines and anchovies in the cold sea. Its numbers have fallen so far that it is now Critically Endangered, and people are working hard to protect it.","path":"/discover/animals/african-penguin","category":"birds","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/african-penguin-480.webp?v=f1852843aade6b50","alt":"African penguin , Boulders Beach, Simon\u0027s Town, South Africa","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:birds","tag:penguin","tag:africa","tag:coast","tag:critically-endangered","tag:warm-climate-penguin","continent:africa","subgroup:penguin","has:journey","iucn:cr"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:african-wild-dog","kind":"animal","title":"African wild dog","summary":"The African wild dog, or painted dog, has a patchy coat unlike any other dog\u0027s, big round ears and only four toes on its front feet. It lives in close packs that hunt together, share food and care for the pups. It is endangered: the IUCN estimated in 2025 that only about 1,676 adults are left in the wild.","path":"/discover/animals/african-wild-dog","category":"mammals","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/african-wild-dog-480.webp?v=0ba20b58dc37cfd9","alt":"Only 3000-5000 African wild dogs lived in the wild in 1997","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:mammals","has:3d","tag:dog-family","tag:pack","tag:diurnal","tag:endangered","tag:teamwork","habitat:african-savanna","continent:africa","subgroup:dog-family","has:sound","iucn:en"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:aldabra-giant-tortoise","kind":"animal","title":"Aldabra giant tortoise","summary":"The Aldabra giant tortoise is one of the largest land tortoises on Earth. Wild ones live on Aldabra Atoll, a ring of coral islands in the Indian Ocean, where more than 100,000 of them graze, browse and shape the land like elephants do in Africa. They can live for more than 100 years.","path":"/discover/animals/aldabra-giant-tortoise","category":"reptiles","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/aldabra-giant-tortoise-480.webp?v=c94cdbd28ad92dfc","alt":"Aldabra giant tortoise , Changuu Island, Tanzania","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:reptiles","tag:giant","tag:island","tag:long-lived","tag:vulnerable","habitat:grasslands","continent:africa","subgroup:turtle","iucn:vu"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:alligator-gar","kind":"animal","title":"Alligator gar","summary":"The alligator gar is one of the largest freshwater fish in North America. It has a broad snout lined with teeth, armor-like scales, and a swim bladder that works like a lung, so it can gulp air in warm, still water. It lives in the big rivers, swamps and bayous of the southern United States, Mexico and Central America.","path":"/discover/animals/alligator-gar","category":"fish","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/alligator-gar-480.webp?v=cc3caba87ddfbfdc","alt":"Alligator gar - taken at the Cincinnati Zoo","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:fish","tag:giant","tag:rivers","tag:air-breathing","tag:ancient-fish","tag:wetlands","habitat:wetlands","continent:north-america","subgroup:freshwater-fish","iucn:lc"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:alligator-snapping-turtle","kind":"animal","title":"Alligator snapping turtle","summary":"The alligator snapping turtle is the largest freshwater turtle in the United States. It lies still on the bottom of rivers and lakes with its mouth open, wiggling a worm-like lure on its tongue to trick fish into swimming close. Its numbers have fallen, and it is now endangered.","path":"/discover/animals/alligator-snapping-turtle","category":"reptiles","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/alligator-snapping-turtle-480.webp?v=aa294863aaa04d77","alt":"Photo of Alligator snapping turtle","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:reptiles","tag:freshwater","tag:giant","tag:lure","tag:endangered","habitat:wetlands","continent:north-america","subgroup:turtle","iucn:en"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:alpaca","kind":"animal","title":"Alpaca","summary":"Alpacas are small, woolly members of the camel family from the high Andes Mountains of South America. People bred them from wild vicu\u00F1as thousands of years ago, mainly for their soft, warm fleece. Every alpaca lives with people.","path":"/discover/animals/alpaca","category":"mammals","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/alpaca-480.webp?v=acd399a55831c805","alt":"A pair of young alpacas at the pre-Inca burial site of Sillustani, Peru","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:mammals","tag:mountains","tag:domesticated","tag:andes","tag:fleece","habitat:mountains","continent:south-america","subgroup:hoofed","has:domestic"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:amazon-milk-frog","kind":"animal","title":"Amazon milk frog","summary":"The Amazon milk frog is a large tree frog that lives high in the treetops of the rainforest in northeastern South America. It is active at night, has big golden eyes, and lays its eggs in pools of rainwater trapped in holes in trees, where its tadpoles grow up.","path":"/discover/animals/amazon-milk-frog","category":"amphibians","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/amazon-milk-frog-480.webp?v=3204366e42fdbcf8","alt":"Photo of Amazon milk frog","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:amphibians","has:3d","tag:tree-frog","tag:rainforest","tag:canopy","tag:tadpoles","habitat:amazon-rainforest","continent:south-america","subgroup:frog","iucn:lc"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:amazon-river-dolphin","kind":"animal","title":"Amazon river dolphin","summary":"The Amazon river dolphin, or boto, is the largest river dolphin. Many adults are pink. It lives only in fresh water, in the Amazon and Orinoco river basins of South America, and its bendy neck and big flippers let it twist between tree trunks in flooded forests as it hunts fish using sound.","path":"/discover/animals/amazon-river-dolphin","category":"mammals","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/amazon-river-dolphin-480.webp?v=5d461c1356c2d9a8","alt":"Photo of Amazon river dolphin","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:mammals","tag:south-america","tag:rivers","tag:toothed-whale","tag:echolocation","tag:endangered","habitat:amazon-rainforest","habitat:wetlands","continent:south-america","subgroup:marine-mammal","iucn:en"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:american-alligator","kind":"animal","title":"American alligator","summary":"The American alligator is a large, armored reptile of the swamps, marshes and lakes of the southeastern United States. Alligator mothers guard their nests and carry their babies to the water, and the holes alligators dig help many other animals survive dry seasons.","path":"/discover/animals/american-alligator","category":"reptiles","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/american-alligator-480.webp?v=ab4222ef03e6996a","alt":"American Alligator, Photographer Donald W DeLoach Jr","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:reptiles","has:3d","tag:crocodilian","tag:wetlands","tag:comeback","tag:keystone-species","habitat:wetlands","continent:north-america","subgroup:crocodilian","has:sound","iucn:lc"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:american-bison","kind":"animal","title":"American bison","summary":"The American bison is the largest land animal in North America. Once tens of millions roamed the Great Plains, but by the 1890s fewer than a thousand were left. Careful protection, starting with a tiny herd in Yellowstone, brought bison back.","path":"/discover/animals/american-bison","category":"mammals","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/american-bison-480.webp?v=a8e50c031ce61631","alt":"Photo of American bison","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:mammals","has:3d","tag:grasslands","tag:prairie","tag:near-threatened","tag:comeback","habitat:grasslands","continent:north-america","subgroup:hoofed","has:sound","iucn:nt"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:american-black-bear","kind":"animal","title":"American black bear","summary":"The American black bear is the most common bear in North America. It lives mostly in forests, climbs trees with its short, curved claws, eats mainly plants, and spends the winter in a den. Not all black bears are black: some are brown, cinnamon, blue-gray or even white.","path":"/discover/animals/american-black-bear","category":"mammals","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/american-black-bear-480.webp?v=177fb0f103ad2e71","alt":"American black bear, Parc Omega, Quebec, Canada","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:mammals","tag:forest","tag:north-america","tag:hibernation","tag:climber","habitat:temperate-forest","habitat:mountains","continent:north-america","subgroup:bear","iucn:lc"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:american-bullfrog","kind":"animal","title":"American bullfrog","summary":"The American bullfrog is the largest true frog in North America. It lives in warm, still ponds and lakes, sits and waits for food to come close, and the males\u0027 deep \u0027jug-o-rum\u0027 call carries more than a kilometer. Its tadpoles can take years to turn into frogs.","path":"/discover/animals/american-bullfrog","category":"amphibians","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/american-bullfrog-480.webp?v=3c16acc4d4f49254","alt":"Photo of American bullfrog","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:amphibians","has:3d","tag:frog","tag:ponds","tag:metamorphosis","tag:loud-call","tag:invasive-elsewhere","habitat:wetlands","continent:north-america","subgroup:frog","iucn:lc"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:american-crocodile","kind":"animal","title":"American crocodile","summary":"The American crocodile is a large reptile of warm coasts and mangrove swamps, from the southern tip of Florida through Mexico, Central America, the Caribbean and northern South America. It is shy, it basks in the sun to warm up, and mother crocodiles carry their babies to the water.","path":"/discover/animals/american-crocodile","category":"reptiles","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/american-crocodile-480.webp?v=d1b178a7f0415478","alt":"Crocodylus acutus, American Crocodile, Cocodrilo Americano","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:reptiles","tag:crocodilian","tag:mangroves","tag:coasts","tag:vulnerable","habitat:wetlands","continent:north-america","continent:south-america","subgroup:crocodilian","iucn:vu"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:american-crow","kind":"animal","title":"American crow","summary":"The American crow is an all-black bird found across much of North America, from fields and beaches to city centers. It eats almost anything, lives in close family groups, gathers in huge winter roosts, and a University of Washington study found that wild crows can recognize and remember a human face.","path":"/discover/animals/american-crow","category":"birds","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/american-crow-480.webp?v=d89c27fefbb61a1d","alt":"Northwestern crow , adult, at Steveston Harbor, British Columbia, Canada on April 29, 2014","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:birds","tag:clever","tag:city-bird","tag:family","tag:north-america","continent:north-america","subgroup:songbird","has:sound","iucn:lc"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:american-flamingo","kind":"animal","title":"American flamingo","summary":"The American flamingo is a tall, bright pink wading bird of the Caribbean. It gets its color from pigments in the tiny water animals and algae it eats, and it feeds by filtering water through its bent bill with its head upside down. Flamingos live and nest in huge, noisy groups.","path":"/discover/animals/american-flamingo","category":"birds","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/american-flamingo-480.webp?v=27d151d6c9e7cace","alt":"Caribbean Flamingo, also known as the American Flamingo, at Slimbridge Wildfowl and Wetlands Centre, Slimbridge, Gloucestershire, England","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:birds","tag:wading-bird","tag:pink","tag:filter-feeder","tag:caribbean","tag:colony","habitat:wetlands","continent:north-america","continent:south-america","subgroup:waterbird","iucn:lc"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:american-goldfinch","kind":"animal","title":"American goldfinch","summary":"The American goldfinch is a small finch that eats almost nothing but seeds. In summer the male is bright lemon yellow with a black cap and black wings, and in winter both males and females turn a soft olive brown. Goldfinches wait until late summer to build their nests.","path":"/discover/animals/american-goldfinch","category":"birds","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/american-goldfinch-480.webp?v=7656ac6ab65ceb1e","alt":"American goldfinch feeding on seeds of purple coneflower","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:birds","tag:songbird","tag:finch","tag:seed-eater","tag:backyard-bird","habitat:grasslands","continent:north-america","subgroup:songbird","has:sound","has:journey","iucn:lc"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:american-lobster","kind":"animal","title":"American lobster","summary":"The American lobster is a big crustacean that lives on the rocky sea floor of the northwest Atlantic Ocean. It has two very different claws, one for crushing and one for tearing, and it must climb out of its hard shell again and again to grow.","path":"/discover/animals/american-lobster","category":"invertebrates","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/american-lobster-480.webp?v=4464756867f7a9c4","alt":"The lobster\u0027s large claw can crush crabs, clams and fingers","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:invertebrates","tag:lobster","tag:crustacean","tag:sea-floor","tag:molting","tag:fishing","continent:north-america","subgroup:crustacean","iucn:lc"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:american-robin","kind":"animal","title":"American robin","summary":"The American robin is a very familiar bird over most of North America, with a gray-brown back, a warm orange breast and a cheery song. It runs across lawns pulling up earthworms, eats lots of berries in winter, and builds a mud-lined nest for its sky-blue eggs.","path":"/discover/animals/american-robin","category":"birds","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/american-robin-480.webp?v=70020f48a410022c","alt":"American robin in Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, NY","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:birds","has:3d","tag:songbird","tag:thrush","tag:backyard","tag:blue-eggs","habitat:temperate-forest","continent:north-america","subgroup:songbird","has:sound","has:journey","iucn:lc"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:american-toad","kind":"animal","title":"American toad","summary":"The American toad is a common, warty toad of eastern North America, found in forests, prairies, farms and backyards. It has big poison glands behind its eyes, hunts insects and worms at night, and in spring the males sing a long, musical trill from shallow ponds, where females lay thousands of eggs in long strings.","path":"/discover/animals/american-toad","category":"amphibians","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/american-toad-480.webp?v=53a75fed5d97e3c1","alt":"Eastern American Toad, Jacques-Cartier National Park, Quebec, Canada","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:amphibians","tag:toad","tag:garden","tag:trill","tag:forest","tag:north-america","habitat:temperate-forest","habitat:grasslands","continent:north-america","subgroup:frog","has:sound","iucn:lc"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:andean-condor","kind":"animal","title":"Andean condor","summary":"The Andean condor is one of the largest flying birds in the world. With wings up to 3.2 meters across, it soars over the Andes Mountains of South America, barely flapping, as it searches for dead animals to eat. It is a vulture, nature\u0027s clean-up crew.","path":"/discover/animals/andean-condor","category":"birds","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/andean-condor-480.webp?v=d3b56c8de53e9141","alt":"Andean condor male, Farellones, Andes Mountains, Chile","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:birds","tag:bird-of-prey","tag:vulture","tag:scavenger","tag:mountains","tag:soaring","tag:vulnerable","habitat:mountains","habitat:grasslands","continent:south-america","subgroup:raptor","has:sound","iucn:vu"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:antarctic-krill","kind":"animal","title":"Antarctic krill","summary":"Antarctic krill are small, shrimp-like crustaceans about 6 centimeters long that live in the icy Southern Ocean around Antarctica. They gather in enormous swarms, and almost all the bigger animals of the Antarctic, from penguins to blue whales, depend on them for food.","path":"/discover/animals/antarctic-krill","category":"invertebrates","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/antarctic-krill-480.webp?v=6ec4bfa0a3db4d4c","alt":"Antarctic krill Euphausia superba","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:invertebrates","has:3d","tag:crustacean","tag:plankton","tag:swarm","tag:southern-ocean","habitat:antarctic","subgroup:crustacean","iucn:lc"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:arabian-oryx","kind":"animal","title":"Arabian oryx","summary":"The Arabian oryx is a white desert antelope with long, straight horns and a black-and-white face. Hunting wiped it out in the wild, but animals kept in zoos were bred and returned to the deserts of Arabia. Today it lives wild again in five countries.","path":"/discover/animals/arabian-oryx","category":"mammals","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/arabian-oryx-480.webp?v=5f9cbd807456413e","alt":"Oryx leucoryx, Chay Bar Yotvata, Israel","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:mammals","tag:desert","tag:antelope","tag:comeback","tag:vulnerable","habitat:desert","continent:asia","subgroup:hoofed","iucn:vu"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:arapaima","kind":"animal","title":"Arapaima","summary":"The arapaima is one of the biggest freshwater fish in the world, longer than a grown-up is tall. It lives in the warm, slow rivers and flooded lakes of the Amazon, and it must swim up to the surface to gulp air every few minutes.","path":"/discover/animals/arapaima","category":"fish","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/arapaima-480.webp?v=1e8cff52f1b5495f","alt":"Photo of Arapaima","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:fish","tag:amazon","tag:giant","tag:air-breathing","tag:rivers","tag:fishing","habitat:amazon-rainforest","habitat:wetlands","continent:south-america","subgroup:freshwater-fish","iucn:dd"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:arctic-fox","kind":"animal","title":"Arctic fox","summary":"The Arctic fox lives on the frozen tundra around the North Pole. Its coat changes color with the seasons, white or blue-gray in winter and brown or gray in summer, and it has short ears, a short nose and furry feet to keep the cold out. It eats lemmings, birds and leftovers from polar bears.","path":"/discover/animals/arctic-fox","category":"mammals","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/arctic-fox-480.webp?v=d04a17c8dfcbd88e","alt":"Arctic fox in winter coat in the snow, Iceland","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:mammals","tag:dog-family","tag:arctic","tag:cold","tag:color-change","tag:least-concern","habitat:arctic","continent:north-america","continent:europe","continent:asia","subgroup:dog-family","iucn:lc"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:arctic-tern","kind":"animal","title":"Arctic tern","summary":"The Arctic tern is a small, graceful seabird with a black cap, a red bill and red legs. Every year it flies from its nesting grounds in the Arctic to the edge of the ice around Antarctica and back again. Scientists who tracked terns from Greenland and Iceland found that they flew an average of 70,900 kilometers in one year.","path":"/discover/animals/arctic-tern","category":"birds","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/arctic-tern-480.webp?v=7153af7af3c15f9d","alt":"Arctic tern, it breeds in the north polar region and winters in the south polar region","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:birds","tag:seabird","tag:tern","tag:migration","tag:arctic","tag:antarctic","habitat:arctic","habitat:antarctic","continent:europe","continent:north-america","continent:asia","continent:antarctica","continent:africa","continent:south-america","continent:oceania","subgroup:seabird","has:sound","has:journey","iucn:lc"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:army-ant","kind":"animal","title":"Army ant","summary":"Army ants hunt together in giant swarms and never build a permanent nest. This page is about the best-studied kind, Eciton burchellii, of Central and South American forests. Each night of its traveling phase the colony moves, and the workers link their legs to build a living camp around their queen and young.","path":"/discover/animals/army-ant","category":"invertebrates","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/army-ant-480.webp?v=389c1bc66a8e4f4a","alt":"Photo of Army ant","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:invertebrates","tag:ant","tag:insect","tag:colony","tag:rainforest","tag:hunter","tag:nomad","habitat:amazon-rainforest","continent:north-america","continent:south-america","subgroup:insect"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:asian-black-bear","kind":"animal","title":"Asian black bear","summary":"The Asian black bear is a black bear with a cream crescent on its chest, shaped like a new moon. It lives in forests and mountains from Iran and Pakistan across the Himalayas and Southeast Asia to China, Korea, Japan and the Russian Far East. It eats mostly plants, especially fruit and nuts, and in cold places it sleeps through the winter.","path":"/discover/animals/asian-black-bear","category":"mammals","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/asian-black-bear-480.webp?v=8b1aa791164ce951","alt":"Asian Black Bear Ursus thibetanus by Dr","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:mammals","tag:bears","tag:forests","tag:mountains","tag:vulnerable","habitat:temperate-forest","habitat:mountains","habitat:asian-rainforest","continent:asia","subgroup:bear","iucn:vu"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:asian-elephant","kind":"animal","title":"Asian elephant","summary":"The Asian elephant is the largest land animal in Asia. It is a little smaller than its African cousins, with smaller ears, a head shaped like two domes and a trunk with one finger-like tip. It lives in forests and grassy clearings in 13 countries of South and Southeast Asia.","path":"/discover/animals/asian-elephant","category":"mammals","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/asian-elephant-480.webp?v=85a7e53ee64e77c5","alt":"Indian elephant bull in musth in Bandipur National Park","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:mammals","has:3d","tag:elephant","tag:endangered","tag:forest","tag:superpower","habitat:asian-rainforest","habitat:grasslands","continent:asia","subgroup:elephant","iucn:en"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:atlantic-blue-crab","kind":"animal","title":"Atlantic blue crab","summary":"The Atlantic blue crab is a swimming crab with bright blue claws and back legs shaped like paddles. It lives along the Atlantic coast of the Americas, especially in bays where rivers meet the sea, like the Chesapeake Bay. A mother crab carries up to two million eggs in a spongy orange mass under her body.","path":"/discover/animals/atlantic-blue-crab","category":"invertebrates","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/atlantic-blue-crab-480.webp?v=1d0096a3786c2931","alt":"Atlantic Blue Crab in Alc\u00FAdia, Spain","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:invertebrates","has:3d","tag:crab","tag:crustacean","tag:estuary","tag:swimmer","tag:fishing","habitat:wetlands","continent:north-america","continent:south-america","subgroup:crustacean"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:atlantic-bluefin-tuna","kind":"animal","title":"Atlantic bluefin tuna","summary":"The Atlantic bluefin tuna is the largest of all tunas: big ones can be about 4 meters long. Its torpedo-shaped body is built for long journeys, and it can keep its body warmer than the water around it. Bluefin tuna were badly overfished, but with fishing limits set by countries working together, the numbers caught are now controlled.","path":"/discover/animals/atlantic-bluefin-tuna","category":"fish","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/atlantic-bluefin-tuna-480.webp?v=f1143a6625c0e014","alt":"A wild Atlantic bluefin tuna leaping out of the Adriatic Sea off Croatia","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:fish","tag:ocean","tag:migration","tag:warm-bodied","tag:fishing","subgroup:ocean-fish","iucn:lc"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:atlantic-cod","kind":"animal","title":"Atlantic cod","summary":"The Atlantic cod is a large, speckled fish of the cold North Atlantic. It has a whisker-like barbel on its chin and three fins along its back. For hundreds of years people have caught cod for food, so many that some cod populations crashed and are still being rebuilt today.","path":"/discover/animals/atlantic-cod","category":"fish","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/atlantic-cod-480.webp?v=8b247634d17cc05c","alt":"An Atlantic cod , taken at Ozeaneum Stralsund aquarium, Stralsund, Germany","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:fish","has:3d","tag:ocean","tag:north-atlantic","tag:fishing","tag:cold-water","tag:vulnerable","subgroup:ocean-fish","iucn:vu"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:atlantic-ghost-crab","kind":"animal","title":"Atlantic ghost crab","summary":"The Atlantic ghost crab is a sand-colored crab of beaches along the Atlantic coast of the Americas. It is so pale that it almost disappears on the sand, like a ghost. It digs deep burrows, comes out mostly at night, and runs very fast on its long legs.","path":"/discover/animals/atlantic-ghost-crab","category":"invertebrates","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/atlantic-ghost-crab-480.webp?v=b7ffa92ece8a532b","alt":"Ghost Crab at Smyrna Dunes Park, New Smyrna Beach","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:invertebrates","has:3d","tag:crab","tag:crustacean","tag:beach","tag:nocturnal","tag:burrow","continent:north-america","continent:south-america","subgroup:crustacean"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:atlantic-herring","kind":"animal","title":"Atlantic herring","summary":"The Atlantic herring is a small, silvery fish of the cold North Atlantic. Herring swim in enormous schools, eat tiny floating plankton, and lay their sticky eggs on the sea floor. Whales, seabirds and many fish depend on them for food, and people have fished for them for hundreds of years.","path":"/discover/animals/atlantic-herring","category":"fish","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/atlantic-herring-480.webp?v=5535aefbe6fe83cd","alt":"A whole Atlantic herring lying on its side next to a measuring rule","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:fish","has:3d","tag:ocean","tag:north-atlantic","tag:schooling","tag:forage-fish","tag:fishing","subgroup:ocean-fish","iucn:lc"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:atlantic-horseshoe-crab","kind":"animal","title":"Atlantic horseshoe crab","summary":"The Atlantic horseshoe crab is a living fossil: its relatives have looked much the same for hundreds of millions of years. Despite its name, it is more closely related to spiders and scorpions than to crabs. Each spring, thousands crawl onto beaches to lay eggs, feeding hungry shorebirds, and its blue blood helps keep medicines safe.","path":"/discover/animals/atlantic-horseshoe-crab","category":"invertebrates","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/atlantic-horseshoe-crab-480.webp?v=42620b4267ed2c38","alt":"Atlantic horseshoe crab at St","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:invertebrates","has:3d","tag:living-fossil","tag:coast","tag:arthropod","tag:medicine","continent:north-america","subgroup:horseshoe-crab","iucn:vu"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:atlantic-mackerel","kind":"animal","title":"Atlantic mackerel","summary":"The Atlantic mackerel is a sleek, shiny fish of the North Atlantic Ocean, with a blue-green back covered in wavy black bars and a silvery white belly. Mackerel swim in large schools near the surface, eat tiny crustaceans and lay floating eggs. Many fish and sea mammals eat them, and so do people.","path":"/discover/animals/atlantic-mackerel","category":"fish","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/atlantic-mackerel-480.webp?v=ffb87297bfde40d0","alt":"Mackerel, caught close to the western edge of the Belgian part of the North Sea, Belgium","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:fish","has:3d","tag:ocean","tag:north-atlantic","tag:schooling","tag:stripes","tag:fishing","subgroup:ocean-fish","iucn:lc"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:mudskipper","kind":"animal","title":"Atlantic mudskipper","summary":"The Atlantic mudskipper is a fish that spends much of its time out of the water. It lives on the muddy shores of mangrove swamps and river mouths along the coast of West and Central Africa, where it skips across the mud on its strong front fins and catches food on land.","path":"/discover/animals/mudskipper","category":"fish","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/mudskipper-480.webp?v=430419e4f508e654","alt":"Atlantic mudskippers photographed on the shore near Tenda-Ba in The Gambia","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:fish","tag:amphibious","tag:mangroves","tag:coasts","tag:air-breathing","tag:africa","habitat:wetlands","continent:africa","subgroup:freshwater-fish","iucn:lc"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:atlantic-puffin","kind":"animal","title":"Atlantic puffin","summary":"The Atlantic puffin is a small seabird of the North Atlantic, often called the clown of the sea because of its huge, colorful bill. It spends most of its life far out on the ocean and comes ashore only in summer to nest in burrows on islands and cliff tops. Underwater, its small wings work like flippers.","path":"/discover/animals/atlantic-puffin","category":"birds","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/atlantic-puffin-480.webp?v=4cc50caf81ae991e","alt":"Atlantic puffin on the North Coast of Skomer Island, Pembrokeshire, Wales","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:birds","has:3d","tag:seabird","tag:burrow","tag:colorful-bill","tag:vulnerable","tag:north-atlantic","habitat:arctic","continent:europe","continent:north-america","subgroup:seabird","has:sound","has:journey","iucn:vu"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:atlantic-salmon","kind":"animal","title":"Atlantic salmon","summary":"The Atlantic salmon hatches in a river, swims out to the North Atlantic Ocean to feed and grow, then returns to the very river where it was born to lay its eggs. Along the way it changes color and shape several times.","path":"/discover/animals/atlantic-salmon","category":"fish","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/atlantic-salmon-480.webp?v=7c50f821cb37169e","alt":"Photo of Atlantic salmon","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:fish","tag:migration","tag:rivers","tag:ocean","tag:near-threatened","tag:superpower","continent:europe","continent:north-america","subgroup:freshwater-fish","has:journey","iucn:nt"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:atlas-moth","kind":"animal","title":"Atlas moth","summary":"The atlas moth is one of the largest moths in the world, with wings up to about 24 centimeters across. It lives in tropical and subtropical forests of southern and Southeast Asia. Its caterpillars eat a lot and spin silk cocoons, and the adults cannot eat at all: they live for only about a week.","path":"/discover/animals/atlas-moth","category":"invertebrates","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/atlas-moth-480.webp?v=4e1b346ffb0b7042","alt":"Female Atlas Moth in the Wilhelma, Stuttgart, Germany","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:invertebrates","tag:moth","tag:insect","tag:metamorphosis","tag:giant","tag:silk","habitat:asian-rainforest","continent:asia","subgroup:insect"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:australian-box-jellyfish","kind":"animal","title":"Australian box jellyfish","summary":"The Australian box jellyfish has a clear, box-shaped bell with bunches of long tentacles at each of its four corners. Unlike most jellyfish it swims on purpose, it has 24 eyes but no brain, and it grows very fast after leaving the tiny polyp it started from. Its sting is very dangerous, so people in northern Australia swim carefully in stinger season.","path":"/discover/animals/australian-box-jellyfish","category":"invertebrates","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/australian-box-jellyfish-480.webp?v=c88765f05bc1b70a","alt":"A preserved Australian box jellyfish in a glass case at the Grant Museum of Zoology, London","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:invertebrates","tag:cnidarian","tag:jellyfish","tag:australia","tag:superpower","continent:oceania","subgroup:cnidarian"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:axolotl","kind":"animal","title":"Axolotl","summary":"The axolotl is a salamander from the canals and lakes of Mexico City. Unlike most amphibians, it keeps its baby features, such as feathery gills and a fin, its whole life. It can regrow lost legs and even parts of its heart, but in the wild it is critically endangered.","path":"/discover/animals/axolotl","category":"amphibians","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/axolotl-480.webp?v=408af51903f79046","alt":"Photo of Axolotl","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:amphibians","has:3d","tag:salamander","tag:regeneration","tag:critically-endangered","tag:superpower","habitat:wetlands","continent:north-america","subgroup:salamander","iucn:cr"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:aye-aye","kind":"animal","title":"Aye-aye","summary":"The aye-aye is a lemur from Madagascar, and the largest primate that is active at night. It taps on branches with its long, skinny middle finger, listens with its enormous ears for hidden grubs, then bites into the wood and hooks them out.","path":"/discover/animals/aye-aye","category":"mammals","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/aye-aye-480.webp?v=f8c722bd908a4ec4","alt":"The Aye-aye, the largest nocturnal lemur of Madgascar, is certainly one of the most amazing creatures on earth","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:mammals","tag:lemur","tag:primate","tag:nocturnal","tag:endangered","continent:africa","subgroup:primate","iucn:en"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:bactrian-camel","kind":"animal","title":"Bactrian camel","summary":"The Bactrian camel is the two-humped camel of Central Asia\u0027s cold deserts and steppes. People tamed it thousands of years ago, and it carried goods along the Silk Road. Its wild cousin, the wild camel, is a separate species that is endangered.","path":"/discover/animals/bactrian-camel","category":"mammals","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/bactrian-camel-480.webp?v=fed61940c9984ee3","alt":"Bactrian Camel in Shanghai Zoo","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:mammals","tag:desert","tag:domesticated","tag:two-humps","tag:silk-road","habitat:desert","habitat:grasslands","continent:asia","subgroup:hoofed","has:sound","has:domestic"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:bald-eagle","kind":"animal","title":"Bald eagle","summary":"The bald eagle is one of North America\u0027s biggest birds, with a white head and tail, a dark brown body and a huge yellow bill. It lives near lakes, rivers and coasts and eats mostly fish. Once rare because of hunting and pesticides, it has made an amazing comeback.","path":"/discover/animals/bald-eagle","category":"birds","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/bald-eagle-480.webp?v=75e0d83ce982d715","alt":"Bald Eagle, South Meadows Trail","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:birds","has:3d","tag:bird-of-prey","tag:raptor","tag:wetlands","tag:comeback","habitat:wetlands","habitat:temperate-forest","continent:north-america","subgroup:raptor","has:sound","iucn:lc"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:barn-owl","kind":"animal","title":"Barn owl","summary":"The barn owl is a pale, ghostly owl with a heart-shaped face that works like a dish to collect sound. It hunts mice and voles at night over fields and grassland, finding them by hearing alone if it has to. Barn owls live on every continent except Antarctica.","path":"/discover/animals/barn-owl","category":"birds","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/barn-owl-480.webp?v=5a65763ac9f124f5","alt":"Photo of Barn owl","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:birds","tag:owl","tag:nocturnal","tag:farmland","tag:super-hearing","habitat:grasslands","continent:africa","continent:asia","continent:europe","continent:north-america","continent:south-america","continent:oceania","subgroup:owl","has:sound","iucn:lc"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:barn-swallow","kind":"animal","title":"Barn swallow","summary":"The barn swallow is a small, speedy bird with a glossy blue back, a reddish throat and a long, deeply forked tail. It catches insects in the air, builds cup-shaped mud nests on barns and bridges, and makes long migrations between the Northern Hemisphere, where it nests, and the Southern Hemisphere, where it spends the winter.","path":"/discover/animals/barn-swallow","category":"birds","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/barn-swallow-480.webp?v=bab0618601c3dd17","alt":"500px provided description: The Barn Swallow Hirundo rustica is the most widespread species of swallow in the world","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:birds","has:3d","tag:migration","tag:mud-nest","tag:aerial-insect-eater","tag:farm-bird","habitat:grasslands","habitat:wetlands","continent:europe","continent:asia","continent:africa","continent:north-america","continent:south-america","continent:oceania","subgroup:songbird","has:sound","has:journey","iucn:lc"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:bar-tailed-godwit","kind":"animal","title":"Bar-tailed godwit","summary":"The bar-tailed godwit is a long-billed shorebird that breeds on Arctic tundra and spends the rest of the year on mudflats far to the south. Godwits from Alaska fly non-stop across the Pacific Ocean to New Zealand and Australia, and one young bird tracked in 2022 flew at least 13,560 kilometers without landing.","path":"/discover/animals/bar-tailed-godwit","category":"birds","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/bar-tailed-godwit-480.webp?v=57e7eb211d9c5766","alt":"Bar-tailed Godwit in breeding plumage","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:birds","tag:shorebird","tag:migration","tag:record-flight","tag:mudflats","tag:tundra","tag:near-threatened","habitat:wetlands","habitat:arctic","continent:africa","continent:asia","continent:europe","continent:north-america","continent:oceania","subgroup:waterbird","has:sound","has:journey","iucn:nt"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:basking-shark","kind":"animal","title":"Basking shark","summary":"The basking shark is the second-biggest fish in the world, after the whale shark. It swims slowly near the surface with its enormous mouth open, sieving tiny floating animals called zooplankton out of the water. It is gentle and lives mainly in cool seas.","path":"/discover/animals/basking-shark","category":"fish","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/basking-shark-480.webp?v=36033d1b39183b95","alt":"Photo of Basking shark","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:fish","has:3d","tag:shark","tag:ocean","tag:filter-feeder","tag:giant","tag:migration","tag:endangered","habitat:deep-ocean","subgroup:shark","iucn:en"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:bee-hummingbird","kind":"animal","title":"Bee hummingbird","summary":"The bee hummingbird of Cuba is the smallest living bird: about 5.5 to 6 centimeters long and weighing only about 2 grams. It hovers in front of small flowers to sip nectar, also eats tiny insects and spiders, and lays eggs the size of peas.","path":"/discover/animals/bee-hummingbird","category":"birds","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/bee-hummingbird-480.webp?v=07779f526a1662db","alt":"Bee hummingbird immature male, Cuba","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:birds","tag:tiny","tag:record-breaker","tag:hummingbird","tag:near-threatened","tag:superpower","continent:north-america","subgroup:hummingbird","iucn:nt"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:beluga","kind":"animal","title":"Beluga whale","summary":"The beluga whale is a small white whale of the Arctic. It has no fin on its back, a soft, round forehead it can change shape, and a neck that bends, and it makes so many whistles, chirps and clicks that sailors called it the canary of the sea.","path":"/discover/animals/beluga","category":"mammals","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/beluga-480.webp?v=916d4cef636d72ae","alt":"Beluga en L\u0027Oceanogr\u00E0fic","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:mammals","tag:ocean","tag:arctic","tag:marine-mammal","tag:sounds","tag:echolocation","habitat:arctic","subgroup:marine-mammal","has:sound","iucn:lc"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:big-belly-seahorse","kind":"animal","title":"Big-belly seahorse","summary":"The big-belly seahorse lives in the cool coastal waters of southeastern Australia and New Zealand. It is one of the largest seahorses, usually 18 to 28 centimeters long. It grips seaweed and jetties with its curly tail and sucks up tiny shrimp through its snout. As in all seahorses, the male carries the eggs in a pouch on his belly and gives birth to hundreds of babies.","path":"/discover/animals/big-belly-seahorse","category":"fish","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/big-belly-seahorse-480.webp?v=351c07e357c50079","alt":"Photo of Big-belly seahorse","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:fish","tag:seahorse","tag:father-gives-birth","tag:kelp","tag:camouflage","continent:oceania","subgroup:reef-fish","iucn:lc"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:black-mamba","kind":"animal","title":"Black mamba","summary":"The black mamba is a long, slender, very fast snake of the savannas and rocky hills of sub-Saharan Africa. It is gray to brown, gets its name from its inky-black mouth, hunts small mammals by day, and is shy: it would almost always rather slip away from people. It is also highly venomous, so it is a snake to admire from far away.","path":"/discover/animals/black-mamba","category":"reptiles","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/black-mamba-480.webp?v=79250ace76ab97db","alt":"Black mamba in defensive posture, photo taken by Bill Love, Blue Chameleon Ventures","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:reptiles","tag:snake","tag:venomous","tag:fast","tag:savanna","tag:africa","habitat:african-savanna","continent:africa","subgroup:snake","iucn:lc"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:black-rhinoceros","kind":"animal","title":"Black rhinoceros","summary":"The black rhinoceros is the smaller of Africa\u0027s two rhinos. It has two horns and a pointed, hooked upper lip that it uses to pick leaves and twigs from bushes. It is Critically Endangered, but thanks to rangers and conservationists its numbers have been climbing again.","path":"/discover/animals/black-rhinoceros","category":"mammals","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/black-rhinoceros-480.webp?v=9e282fca10718639","alt":"South-western black rhinoceros female, Etosha National Park, Namibia","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:mammals","tag:savanna","tag:horns","tag:critically-endangered","tag:comeback","habitat:african-savanna","habitat:desert","continent:africa","subgroup:hoofed","iucn:cr"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:black-swan","kind":"animal","title":"Black swan","summary":"The black swan is the only swan in the world that is almost entirely black. It has a bright red bill with a white band near the tip, and white flight feathers that flash when it flies. It is native to Australia and New Zealand, and people have taken it to other countries too.","path":"/discover/animals/black-swan","category":"birds","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/black-swan-480.webp?v=d78f2833f5cbb428","alt":"Mourning swans, a genus of swans with almost completely black plumage and a longer neck than any other swans","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:birds","tag:swan","tag:waterfowl","tag:wetlands","tag:australia","tag:introduced-species","habitat:wetlands","continent:oceania","subgroup:waterbird","has:sound","iucn:lc"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:black-capped-chickadee","kind":"animal","title":"Black-capped chickadee","summary":"The black-capped chickadee is a small, curious songbird of North American woods and backyards. It hides thousands of seeds to eat later and remembers where they are, and its \u0022chick-a-dee-dee-dee\u0022 call tells other birds how dangerous a nearby predator is.","path":"/discover/animals/black-capped-chickadee","category":"birds","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/black-capped-chickadee-480.webp?v=69b179b37be98f54","alt":"Black-capped chickadee foraging in Central Park","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:birds","tag:songbird","tag:backyard","tag:clever","tag:north-america","habitat:temperate-forest","continent:north-america","subgroup:songbird","has:sound","iucn:lc"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:black-tailed-prairie-dog","kind":"animal","title":"Black-tailed prairie dog","summary":"Black-tailed prairie dogs are sociable ground squirrels of North America\u0027s Great Plains. They dig huge underground towns, keep the grass short to watch for danger, and bark warnings to each other. Many other animals depend on their towns.","path":"/discover/animals/black-tailed-prairie-dog","category":"mammals","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/black-tailed-prairie-dog-480.webp?v=e398baa264f78837","alt":"A Black-tailed Prairie Dog photographed at Wichita Mountain Wildlife Refuge","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:mammals","tag:grasslands","tag:rodents","tag:burrows","tag:keystone","habitat:grasslands","continent:north-america","subgroup:rodent-and-rabbit","has:sound","iucn:lc"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:blacktip-reef-shark","kind":"animal","title":"Blacktip reef shark","summary":"The blacktip reef shark is a medium-sized shark of warm, shallow coral reefs in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. You can spot it by the black tips on all its fins. It hunts fish, squid and crabs, stays close to its home reef, and gives birth to just a few live pups at a time.","path":"/discover/animals/blacktip-reef-shark","category":"fish","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/blacktip-reef-shark-480.webp?v=e50f06f32083f1de","alt":"Blacktip reef shark , Moorea, French Polynesia","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:fish","tag:shark","tag:coral-reef","tag:ocean","tag:vulnerable","habitat:coral-reef","subgroup:shark","iucn:vu"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:blue-dragon","kind":"animal","title":"Blue dragon","summary":"The blue dragon is a sea slug only about 3 centimeters long that floats upside down on the ocean\u0027s surface, held up by a bubble of gas in its stomach. It eats stinging animals such as the Portuguese man o\u0027 war and keeps their stinging cells in its own finger-like tips.","path":"/discover/animals/blue-dragon","category":"invertebrates","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/blue-dragon-480.webp?v=acd45d15541637a5","alt":"Also known as Sea Swallow, Blue Glaucus, Blue Sea Slug, Blue Ocean Slug and Lizard Nudibranch","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:invertebrates","tag:mollusc","tag:sea-slug","tag:ocean","tag:superpower","subgroup:mollusc"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:blue-jay","kind":"animal","title":"Blue jay","summary":"The blue jay is a large, crested songbird of eastern and central North America, blue above and white below with a black necklace. It is clever and loud, can copy the calls of hawks, and can bury thousands of acorns in a single fall. Its acorn burying is credited with helping oak trees spread.","path":"/discover/animals/blue-jay","category":"birds","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/blue-jay-480.webp?v=b2f0c8f62aed2331","alt":"Blue Jay \u2013 Ontario, Canada","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:birds","tag:songbird","tag:corvid","tag:acorns","tag:mimic","habitat:temperate-forest","continent:north-america","subgroup:songbird","has:sound","iucn:lc"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:blue-sea-star","kind":"animal","title":"Blue sea star","summary":"The blue sea star is easy to spot on Indian and Pacific Ocean reefs: bright blue, with five smooth, tube-shaped arms. It cleans up the reef by eating dead animals, tiny creatures and the thin film that grows on rocks, and it can grow back an arm it loses.","path":"/discover/animals/blue-sea-star","category":"invertebrates","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/blue-sea-star-480.webp?v=c4a1c45d72af32fd","alt":"Blue star , Anilao, Philippines","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:invertebrates","tag:echinoderm","tag:sea-star","tag:coral-reef","tag:superpower","habitat:coral-reef","subgroup:echinoderm"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:blue-tang","kind":"animal","title":"Blue tang","summary":"The blue tang is a royal-blue reef fish with black markings and a bright yellow tail. It lives on coral reefs across the Indian and Pacific Oceans, starts life yellow, and carries sharp blades at the base of its tail.","path":"/discover/animals/blue-tang","category":"fish","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/blue-tang-480.webp?v=3256b33c729b39d5","alt":"Blue tang , Monterey Bay Aquarium","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:fish","has:3d","tag:coral-reef","tag:ocean","tag:colorful","habitat:coral-reef","subgroup:reef-fish","iucn:lc"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:blue-whale","kind":"animal","title":"Blue whale","summary":"The blue whale is the largest animal ever to live on Earth, bigger than any dinosaur. It is a baleen whale: instead of teeth it has bristly plates that strain huge mouthfuls of seawater to catch krill. Blue whales live in every ocean except the Arctic, and their deep calls are among the loudest sounds made by any animal.","path":"/discover/animals/blue-whale","category":"mammals","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/blue-whale-480.webp?v=c4ac971353167893","alt":"Photo of Blue whale","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:mammals","tag:ocean","tag:biggest-animal","tag:baleen-whale","tag:endangered","tag:superpower","habitat:deep-ocean","subgroup:marine-mammal","has:sound","iucn:en"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:blue-wildebeest","kind":"animal","title":"Blue wildebeest","summary":"The blue wildebeest, or gnu, is a big antelope with a box-like head, curved horns, a mane and a beard. It grazes the savannas of eastern and southern Africa, and in the Serengeti huge herds travel in a giant circle every year following the rains.","path":"/discover/animals/blue-wildebeest","category":"mammals","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/blue-wildebeest-480.webp?v=f071c400b6b57c2b","alt":"Blue wildebeest female and calf, Etosha National Park, Namibia","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:mammals","tag:savanna","tag:migration","tag:herds","tag:antelope","habitat:african-savanna","habitat:grasslands","continent:africa","subgroup:hoofed","iucn:lc"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:blue-and-yellow-macaw","kind":"animal","title":"Blue-and-yellow macaw","summary":"The blue-and-yellow macaw is a large parrot of South America and Panama. It is bright blue on top and golden yellow underneath, with a green forehead and a white face lined with black. It lives near swamps and rivers, cracks nuts with its strong black beak and stays with one mate for life.","path":"/discover/animals/blue-and-yellow-macaw","category":"birds","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/blue-and-yellow-macaw-480.webp?v=e99faad4e9212fd2","alt":"Blue-and-yellow Macaw in flight","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:birds","has:3d","tag:parrot","tag:rainforest","tag:swamp","tag:colorful","habitat:amazon-rainforest","continent:south-america","continent:north-america","subgroup:parrot","iucn:lc"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:blue-footed-booby","kind":"animal","title":"Blue-footed booby","summary":"The blue-footed booby is a seabird of the tropical eastern Pacific, from Mexico to Peru and the Gal\u00E1pagos Islands. Its bright blue feet star in its courtship dance: birds with bluer feet are more likely to find a mate. It catches fish by diving into the sea from high in the air.","path":"/discover/animals/blue-footed-booby","category":"birds","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/blue-footed-booby-480.webp?v=c459e4181247abcb","alt":"Photo of Blue-footed booby","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:birds","tag:seabird","tag:booby","tag:galapagos","tag:plunge-diver","tag:courtship-dance","continent:south-america","continent:north-america","subgroup:seabird","iucn:lc"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:boa-constrictor","kind":"animal","title":"Boa constrictor","summary":"The boa constrictor is a large, heavy snake of South America. Of all the boas, it lives in the greatest variety of places, from rainforests to dry scrub and farms. It catches food by squeezing, it has no venom, and mothers give birth to live babies.","path":"/discover/animals/boa-constrictor","category":"reptiles","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/boa-constrictor-480.webp?v=d54bccfbfc7afc28","alt":"Boa constrictor, Terra Fauna exibition in shopping center Va\u0148kovka in Brno","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:reptiles","tag:snake","tag:constrictor","tag:live-birth","tag:rainforest","tag:south-america","habitat:amazon-rainforest","habitat:grasslands","continent:south-america","subgroup:snake","iucn:lc"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:bobcat","kind":"animal","title":"Bobcat","summary":"The bobcat is North America\u0027s most common wild cat, found from southern Canada across the United States to Mexico. It is bigger than a house cat, with a short tail, ear tufts and a spotted coat. It lives in forests, swamps, deserts and even some cities, and hunts mostly rabbits.","path":"/discover/animals/bobcat","category":"mammals","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/bobcat-480.webp?v=d7383b9b94035871","alt":"Photo of Bobcat","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:mammals","tag:cats","tag:north-america","tag:forests","tag:adaptable","habitat:temperate-forest","habitat:desert","habitat:wetlands","continent:north-america","subgroup:small-cat","iucn:lc"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:bonobo","kind":"animal","title":"Bonobo","summary":"The bonobo is a great ape that looks a lot like a chimpanzee but is more slender, with a rounder head. It lives only in the rainforests south of the Congo River, in groups where females take the lead and squabbles rarely turn into fights.","path":"/discover/animals/bonobo","category":"mammals","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/bonobo-480.webp?v=2f50e7c94a88228c","alt":"Female Bonobo at La Vall\u00E9e de Singes, at Romagne , France","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:mammals","tag:great-ape","tag:primate","tag:rainforest","tag:endangered","continent:africa","subgroup:primate","has:sound","iucn:en"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:bornean-orangutan","kind":"animal","title":"Bornean orangutan","summary":"The Bornean orangutan is a shaggy red great ape that spends almost all its life in the treetops of Borneo\u0027s rainforests. It eats mostly ripe fruit, builds a new leafy bed every night, and lives a quieter, more solitary life than other great apes.","path":"/discover/animals/bornean-orangutan","category":"mammals","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/bornean-orangutan-480.webp?v=1059f8da5d05532d","alt":"Photo of Bornean orangutan","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:mammals","has:3d","tag:great-ape","tag:primate","tag:rainforest","tag:critically-endangered","tag:tree-dweller","habitat:asian-rainforest","continent:asia","subgroup:primate","iucn:cr"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:bowhead-whale","kind":"animal","title":"Bowhead whale","summary":"The bowhead whale is a giant baleen whale that spends its whole life in cold Arctic waters. Its enormous bow-shaped head can push through sea ice, its blubber is thicker than any other whale\u0027s, and some bowheads may live for more than 200 years.","path":"/discover/animals/bowhead-whale","category":"mammals","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/bowhead-whale-480.webp?v=2ae8215d6cabb690","alt":"A bowhead whale swims through blue water toward ice","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:mammals","has:3d","tag:whales","tag:arctic","tag:ocean","tag:superpower","habitat:arctic","subgroup:marine-mammal","iucn:lc"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:brown-bear","kind":"animal","title":"Brown bear","summary":"The brown bear lives in more places than any other bear, from European forests to the mountains of Asia and the rivers of Alaska. It eats almost anything, from berries to salmon, and spends the long winter asleep in a cozy den. Grizzly bears and Kodiak bears are brown bears too.","path":"/discover/animals/brown-bear","category":"mammals","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/brown-bear-480.webp?v=ec55916452a84895","alt":"A Kamchatka Brown Bear near Dvuhyurtochnoe taken on July 23rd, 2015","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:mammals","has:3d","tag:forest","tag:mountains","tag:hibernation","tag:salmon","tag:superpower","habitat:temperate-forest","habitat:mountains","continent:north-america","continent:europe","continent:asia","subgroup:bear","has:sound","iucn:lc"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:brown-pelican","kind":"animal","title":"Brown pelican","summary":"The brown pelican is a large coastal bird of the Americas with an enormous bill and a stretchy throat pouch. It catches fish by diving head-first into the sea from high in the air. Brown pelicans almost disappeared from North America because of pesticides such as DDT, but after DDT was banned they made a full comeback.","path":"/discover/animals/brown-pelican","category":"birds","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/brown-pelican-480.webp?v=bf53ccc487dfbf69","alt":"Brown pelican sitting on a rock in the cliffs of Bodega Head, Sonoma County, California","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:birds","tag:pelican","tag:seabird","tag:plunge-diver","tag:coast","tag:conservation-success","continent:north-america","continent:south-america","subgroup:seabird","has:journey","iucn:lc"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:brown-rat","kind":"animal","title":"Brown rat","summary":"Brown rats are large rodents that came from East Asia and spread around the world with people, mainly on ships. They are smart, strong swimmers with a superb sense of smell. Wild rats can carry germs that make people sick, so they are best left alone.","path":"/discover/animals/brown-rat","category":"mammals","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/brown-rat-480.webp?v=cc56d0d73cec1dd2","alt":"Brown rat , Drenthe, Netherlands","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:mammals","has:3d","tag:rodents","tag:towns-and-gardens","tag:worldwide","tag:invasive","habitat:wetlands","continent:asia","continent:europe","continent:africa","continent:north-america","continent:south-america","continent:oceania","subgroup:rodent-and-rabbit","iucn:lc"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:brown-throated-sloth","kind":"animal","title":"Brown-throated sloth","summary":"The brown-throated sloth is a three-toed sloth of the rainforests of Central and South America. It eats leaves, saves energy by moving very slowly, and its shaggy fur can turn green with tiny algae that grow in it.","path":"/discover/animals/brown-throated-sloth","category":"mammals","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/brown-throated-sloth-480.webp?v=c6cbbb4eea3e94ac","alt":"Brown-throated Three-toed Sloth in Panama","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:mammals","tag:rainforest","tag:slow","tag:tree-dweller","tag:superpower","habitat:amazon-rainforest","continent:south-america","continent:north-america","subgroup:xenarthran-and-kin","iucn:lc"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:budgerigar","kind":"animal","title":"Budgerigar","summary":"The budgerigar, or budgie, is a little parrot from the dry heart of Australia. Wild budgies are green and yellow with wavy black stripes. They are nomads that travel in flocks, they must find water every day, and they breed after good rain. Budgies are also popular pets all over the world.","path":"/discover/animals/budgerigar","category":"birds","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/budgerigar-480.webp?v=e85d5bfe5c886bad","alt":"Photo of Budgerigar","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:birds","tag:parrot","tag:australia","tag:nomad","tag:flocks","habitat:grasslands","habitat:desert","continent:oceania","subgroup:parrot","iucn:lc"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:buff-tailed-bumblebee","kind":"animal","title":"Buff-tailed bumblebee","summary":"The buff-tailed bumblebee is one of the most common bumblebees in Europe. It is large and furry, with golden-yellow bands, and the queen has a buff, or light brown, tail. It lives in nests of up to a few hundred bees, and people raise it to pollinate crops such as greenhouse tomatoes.","path":"/discover/animals/buff-tailed-bumblebee","category":"invertebrates","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/buff-tailed-bumblebee-480.webp?v=715793a1e4a6a030","alt":"Photo of Buff-tailed bumblebee","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:invertebrates","tag:bee","tag:insect","tag:pollinator","tag:metamorphosis","tag:gardens","habitat:grasslands","continent:europe","continent:africa","continent:asia","subgroup:insect"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:bull-shark","kind":"animal","title":"Bull shark","summary":"The bull shark is a large, stout shark of warm coasts around the world. It is one of very few sharks that can swim from the salty sea into fresh water, and it has been found thousands of kilometers up big rivers like the Amazon and the Mississippi.","path":"/discover/animals/bull-shark","category":"fish","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/bull-shark-480.webp?v=41f7c5ad7e204be4","alt":"Photo of Bull shark","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:fish","has:3d","tag:shark","tag:ocean","tag:rivers","tag:estuaries","tag:vulnerable","habitat:wetlands","subgroup:shark","iucn:vu"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:bull-headed-dung-beetle","kind":"animal","title":"Bull-headed dung beetle","summary":"The bull-headed dung beetle is a shiny black beetle about 1 centimeter long. Large males have two long, curved horns on their heads, like a bull. These beetles dig tunnels under cow dung and pack dung into balls for their young, which cleans up pastures and helps the soil. They came from Europe and now also live in North America and Australia.","path":"/discover/animals/bull-headed-dung-beetle","category":"invertebrates","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/bull-headed-dung-beetle-480.webp?v=bf9a65ca962661f6","alt":"Photo of Taurus scarab","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:invertebrates","has:3d","tag:beetle","tag:insect","tag:horns","tag:recycler","tag:farms","habitat:grasslands","continent:europe","continent:north-america","continent:oceania","subgroup:insect"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:burmese-python","kind":"animal","title":"Burmese python","summary":"The Burmese python is one of the largest snakes in the world. In its home in South and Southeast Asia it has become rare because so many are caught, but in southern Florida, where people let pet pythons go, it has spread through the Everglades and eats many of the animals that live there.","path":"/discover/animals/burmese-python","category":"reptiles","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/burmese-python-480.webp?v=b6dbb7778e119f3d","alt":"Burmese Python , NPSPhoto, R","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:reptiles","tag:snake","tag:constrictor","tag:giant","tag:invasive","tag:vulnerable","habitat:asian-rainforest","habitat:wetlands","continent:asia","subgroup:snake","iucn:vu"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:burrowing-owl","kind":"animal","title":"Burrowing owl","summary":"The burrowing owl is a small, sandy-brown owl with long legs and bright yellow eyes. Unlike most owls, it lives underground, in burrows dug by prairie dogs, ground squirrels or tortoises, or sometimes by the owls themselves. It lives in open grasslands and deserts from Canada to the tip of South America.","path":"/discover/animals/burrowing-owl","category":"birds","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/burrowing-owl-480.webp?v=1b1ca008429d1094","alt":"A western burrowing owl near a ditch along Road Z amongst rice fields in Glenn County, California","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:birds","tag:owl","tag:bird-of-prey","tag:burrow","tag:grasslands","tag:day-active","tag:long-legs","habitat:grasslands","habitat:desert","continent:north-america","continent:south-america","subgroup:owl","iucn:lc"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:california-condor","kind":"animal","title":"California condor","summary":"The California condor is the largest wild bird in North America, a giant vulture with wings about 2.8 meters wide. In the 1980s only 22 were left. Thanks to a huge rescue effort, the US Fish and Wildlife Service counted 607 condors at the end of 2025, 392 of them flying free.","path":"/discover/animals/california-condor","category":"birds","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/california-condor-480.webp?v=be0e1ec827d8157e","alt":"California Condor at San Diego Zoo, USA","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:birds","tag:bird-of-prey","tag:vulture","tag:scavenger","tag:critically-endangered","tag:recovery","tag:soaring","habitat:mountains","habitat:grasslands","continent:north-america","subgroup:raptor","iucn:cr"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:california-sea-lion","kind":"animal","title":"California sea lion","summary":"The California sea lion is an \u0027eared seal\u0027 of the west coast of North America. It is clever, playful and very noisy, with a bark like a dog\u0027s. Unlike true seals, it has ear flaps and can turn its back flippers forward to walk on land. Its numbers have grown a lot since it was protected.","path":"/discover/animals/california-sea-lion","category":"mammals","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/california-sea-lion-480.webp?v=071fec78df37b141","alt":"California sea lion and a Western gull in Scripps Park in La Jolla","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:mammals","tag:sea-lion","tag:coasts","tag:pinniped","tag:playful","continent:north-america","subgroup:marine-mammal","iucn:lc"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:canada-goose","kind":"animal","title":"Canada goose","summary":"The Canada goose is a big, black-necked goose with a white chinstrap, found near lakes, rivers, fields and parks across North America. Many migrate in noisy V-shaped flocks, but more and more stay all year on city lawns. People also brought Canada geese to Britain and other parts of Europe.","path":"/discover/animals/canada-goose","category":"birds","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/canada-goose-480.webp?v=66f67d60f2d83ba8","alt":"La Roche-en-Ardenne - Bernache du Canada, Branta canadensis","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:birds","has:3d","tag:goose","tag:waterfowl","tag:migration","tag:parks","tag:introduced-species","tag:north-america","habitat:wetlands","habitat:grasslands","continent:north-america","continent:europe","subgroup:waterbird","has:sound","iucn:lc"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:canada-lynx","kind":"animal","title":"Canada lynx","summary":"The Canada lynx is a wild cat of the snowy northern forests of Canada and Alaska. Its huge, furry paws work like snowshoes, and it depends on one animal above all, the snowshoe hare. When hares are plentiful, lynx do well; when hares become scarce, lynx have a hard time too.","path":"/discover/animals/canada-lynx","category":"mammals","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/canada-lynx-480.webp?v=68e709d04b24123c","alt":"Photo of Canada lynx","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:mammals","tag:cats","tag:snow","tag:boreal-forest","tag:superpower","habitat:temperate-forest","continent:north-america","subgroup:small-cat","iucn:lc"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:cane-toad","kind":"animal","title":"Cane toad","summary":"The cane toad is a large, warty toad that comes from the Amazon and Guianas of South America. People carried it to many warm places, including Australia in 1935, hoping it would eat beetles in sugarcane fields. It did not solve that problem, but it spread fast, and its poison harms native animals that try to eat it.","path":"/discover/animals/cane-toad","category":"amphibians","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/cane-toad-480.webp?v=2836e77019c9c546","alt":"Cane toad , Tavoro Falls, Taveuni, Fiji","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:amphibians","tag:toad","tag:invasive","tag:poisonous","tag:australia","tag:south-america","habitat:amazon-rainforest","habitat:grasslands","continent:south-america","subgroup:frog","iucn:lc"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:capybara","kind":"animal","title":"Capybara","summary":"The capybara is the largest rodent alive, a giant cousin of the guinea pig. It lives in groups beside rivers, lakes and marshes in South America, grazes on grass and water plants, and dives into the water to stay cool and safe.","path":"/discover/animals/capybara","category":"mammals","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/capybara-480.webp?v=69b1cb401098f4db","alt":"Capybara walking with Pink Ip\u00EA trees in the background in Parque Estadual Encontro das \u00C1guas, Brazil","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:mammals","has:3d","tag:rodent","tag:wetlands","tag:swimmer","tag:record-holder","habitat:wetlands","habitat:amazon-rainforest","continent:south-america","subgroup:rodent-and-rabbit","iucn:lc"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:caracal","kind":"animal","title":"Caracal","summary":"The caracal is a sleek, reddish-gold wild cat of Africa, the Middle East and Central Asia to India. Its name comes from a Turkish word meaning \u0022black ears\u0022, for its black-backed ears with long tufts. It hunts on the ground, but it can leap two meters or more into the air to catch birds.","path":"/discover/animals/caracal","category":"mammals","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/caracal-480.webp?v=8e45b878cca45a16","alt":"Southern and Eastern African Caracal","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:mammals","tag:cats","tag:savanna","tag:desert","tag:superpower","habitat:african-savanna","habitat:desert","habitat:mountains","continent:africa","continent:asia","subgroup:small-cat","iucn:lc"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:caribbean-hermit-crab","kind":"animal","title":"Caribbean hermit crab","summary":"The Caribbean hermit crab is a land hermit crab with a big purple claw and red legs. It lives near the coasts of Bermuda, Florida and the Caribbean, carries an empty snail shell for protection, and goes back to the sea only to release its eggs.","path":"/discover/animals/caribbean-hermit-crab","category":"invertebrates","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/caribbean-hermit-crab-480.webp?v=203dca1dbeacf4ae","alt":"Caribbean hermit crab","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:invertebrates","tag:crab","tag:crustacean","tag:hermit-crab","tag:shells","tag:land-crab","habitat:wetlands","continent:north-america","subgroup:crustacean"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:cattle","kind":"animal","title":"Cattle","summary":"Cattle are large farm animals that people tamed from wild oxen long ago. They eat grass and digest it with a stomach that has four parts. Farmers around the world keep cattle for milk, meat and leather, and in some places oxen still pull plows and carts.","path":"/discover/animals/cattle","category":"mammals","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/cattle-480.webp?v=566c12a215d73715","alt":"Photo of Cattle","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:mammals","has:3d","tag:farm-animal","tag:domesticated","tag:ruminant","tag:grasslands","habitat:grasslands","continent:africa","continent:asia","continent:europe","continent:north-america","continent:south-america","continent:oceania","subgroup:hoofed","has:sound","has:domestic"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:central-bearded-dragon","kind":"animal","title":"Central bearded dragon","summary":"The central bearded dragon is a lizard of the dry woodlands, scrub and deserts of eastern inland Australia. It eats plants and small animals, basks on fence posts and logs, waves its arm and bobs its head to talk to other dragons, and puffs out a spiky beard to look big. It is also a very popular pet lizard.","path":"/discover/animals/central-bearded-dragon","category":"reptiles","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/central-bearded-dragon-480.webp?v=40840d60695e2967","alt":"Photo of Central bearded dragon","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:reptiles","tag:lizard","tag:dragon-lizard","tag:outback","tag:pet-species","tag:australia","habitat:desert","habitat:grasslands","continent:oceania","subgroup:lizard","iucn:lc"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:chambered-nautilus","kind":"animal","title":"Chambered nautilus","summary":"The chambered nautilus is a relative of octopuses and squids that lives inside a coiled shell full of sealed rooms. It moves up and down along deep reef slopes by changing how much gas and water are in its shell, and it finds food mostly by smell.","path":"/discover/animals/chambered-nautilus","category":"invertebrates","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/chambered-nautilus-480.webp?v=e307c8aff0755ee6","alt":"Nautilus in Berlin Zoo Aquarium","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:invertebrates","has:3d","tag:ocean","tag:deep-sea","tag:shell","tag:cephalopod","tag:superpower","habitat:coral-reef","habitat:deep-ocean","subgroup:mollusc","iucn:vu"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:cheetah","kind":"animal","title":"Cheetah","summary":"The cheetah is the fastest land animal. It can go from standing still to 72 kilometers per hour in about two and a half seconds, and its top speed is around 100 kilometers per hour, as fast as a car on a highway. Cheetahs live mostly in Africa, with a very small group in Iran.","path":"/discover/animals/cheetah","category":"mammals","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/cheetah-480.webp?v=305d2d60d860afd3","alt":"Cheetah female after chase, Phinda Private Game Reserve, South Africa","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:mammals","has:3d","tag:big-cat","tag:fastest","tag:savanna","tag:vulnerable","tag:superpower","habitat:african-savanna","habitat:grasslands","habitat:desert","continent:africa","continent:asia","subgroup:big-cat","has:sound","iucn:vu"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:chicken","kind":"animal","title":"Chicken","summary":"The chicken is a domesticated bird: people raise it on farms and in backyards all over the world for eggs and meat. Its wild ancestor is the red junglefowl of the forests of southern and Southeast Asia, and scientists think chickens were first domesticated about 3,500 years ago near rice fields in Southeast Asia.","path":"/discover/animals/chicken","category":"birds","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/chicken-480.webp?v=d681985738d912bf","alt":"Photo of Chicken","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:birds","has:3d","tag:farm-animal","tag:domesticated","tag:eggs","tag:flock","continent:africa","continent:asia","continent:europe","continent:north-america","continent:south-america","continent:oceania","subgroup:gamebird","has:sound","has:domestic"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:chinook-salmon","kind":"animal","title":"Chinook salmon","summary":"The Chinook salmon, also called the king salmon, is the largest Pacific salmon. It hatches in a cold river, travels to the ocean to feed and grow for a few years, then swims back up its home river to lay eggs.","path":"/discover/animals/chinook-salmon","category":"fish","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/chinook-salmon-480.webp?v=64b7c77f7c8d8a22","alt":"Chinook Salmon make their way up ship creek to spawn","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:fish","tag:salmon","tag:migration","tag:rivers","tag:ocean","tag:fishing","habitat:wetlands","continent:north-america","continent:asia","subgroup:freshwater-fish","iucn:lc"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:chinstrap-penguin","kind":"animal","title":"Chinstrap penguin","summary":"The chinstrap penguin is named for the thin black band that runs under its chin from ear to ear, like a helmet strap. It breeds in huge colonies on the Antarctic Peninsula and nearby islands, raises two chicks each summer and dives for krill close to shore.","path":"/discover/animals/chinstrap-penguin","category":"birds","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/chinstrap-penguin-480.webp?v=1a5a90e9f2f6da53","alt":"Chinstrap penguin on Barrientos Island, in Antarctica on March 3, 2019","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:birds","tag:penguin","tag:antarctic","tag:colony","tag:krill-eater","tag:climber","habitat:antarctic","continent:antarctica","subgroup:penguin","iucn:lc"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:christmas-island-red-crab","kind":"animal","title":"Christmas Island red crab","summary":"The Christmas Island red crab is a bright red land crab that lives almost only on Christmas Island in the Indian Ocean. It lives in burrows in the rainforest, and when the wet season begins, millions of crabs march down to the ocean together to breed, crossing roads, rocks and beaches.","path":"/discover/animals/christmas-island-red-crab","category":"invertebrates","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/christmas-island-red-crab-480.webp?v=4b72b1eb85c595ae","alt":"The Christmas Island red crab, Gecarcoidea natalis, is a species of terrestrial crab endemic to Christmas Island in the Indian Ocean","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:invertebrates","tag:crab","tag:crustacean","tag:islands","tag:migration","tag:land-crab","subgroup:crustacean"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:christmas-tree-worm","kind":"animal","title":"Christmas tree worm","summary":"The Christmas tree worm is a small sea worm that lives in a tube inside living coral on Caribbean reefs. Only its two colorful, spiral crowns show. They catch tiny floating food and help it breathe, and the worm pulls them in with a flash if anything comes too close.","path":"/discover/animals/christmas-tree-worm","category":"invertebrates","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/christmas-tree-worm-480.webp?v=59c80654d7477547","alt":"Photo of Christmas tree worm","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:invertebrates","tag:worms","tag:coral-reef","tag:caribbean","tag:colorful","habitat:coral-reef","continent:north-america","continent:south-america","subgroup:worm"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:clouded-leopard","kind":"animal","title":"Clouded leopard","summary":"The clouded leopard is a forest cat of mainland Southeast Asia and the Himalayan foothills. It is named for the cloud-shaped patches on its coat, and it is an amazing climber that can creep headfirst down a tree trunk. It is Vulnerable, and fewer of them are left each year.","path":"/discover/animals/clouded-leopard","category":"mammals","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/clouded-leopard-480.webp?v=dec5498bcab3d69d","alt":"Mainland Clouded Leopard male in Kaeng Krachan National Park, Thailandd","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:mammals","tag:cats","tag:rainforest","tag:climber","tag:vulnerable","habitat:asian-rainforest","habitat:mountains","continent:asia","subgroup:big-cat","iucn:vu"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:cockatiel","kind":"animal","title":"Cockatiel","summary":"The cockatiel is a small, slim parrot with a tall crest that lives wild in the dry inland of Australia. Flocks fly fast across open country, looking for grass seeds and water, and pairs nest in hollow trees after the rain.","path":"/discover/animals/cockatiel","category":"birds","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/cockatiel-480.webp?v=7eddf92ccf711267","alt":"Photo of Cockatiel","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:birds","has:3d","tag:parrot","tag:australia","tag:crest","tag:flocks","habitat:grasslands","habitat:desert","continent:oceania","subgroup:parrot","has:sound","iucn:lc"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:coconut-crab","kind":"animal","title":"Coconut crab","summary":"The coconut crab, also called the robber crab, is the biggest crustacean that lives on land. It is a close relative of hermit crabs, lives on tropical islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans, climbs trees, and can open coconuts with its powerful claws.","path":"/discover/animals/coconut-crab","category":"invertebrates","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/coconut-crab-480.webp?v=3187edac4cdb0d34","alt":"Photo of Coconut crab","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:invertebrates","tag:crab","tag:crustacean","tag:islands","tag:land-crab","tag:climber","subgroup:crustacean","iucn:vu"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:colossal-squid","kind":"animal","title":"Colossal squid","summary":"The colossal squid lives deep in the icy Southern Ocean around Antarctica. It is thought to be the heaviest animal without a backbone: one caught in 2007 weighed about 470 kilograms. Its arms and tentacles carry sharp, turning hooks, and in 2025 scientists filmed a living one in the wild for the first time.","path":"/discover/animals/colossal-squid","category":"invertebrates","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/colossal-squid-480.webp?v=8949141eb82ada05","alt":"A preserved colossal squid in a long display tank at the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:invertebrates","tag:squid","tag:mollusc","tag:deep-sea","tag:antarctic","tag:giant","habitat:deep-ocean","habitat:antarctic","subgroup:mollusc","iucn:lc"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:common-basilisk","kind":"animal","title":"Common basilisk","summary":"The common basilisk is a lizard of riversides and streams from Nicaragua to Venezuela. It climbs trees, swims well and, when it is startled, can sprint upright across the surface of the water on its big back feet before it sinks and swims.","path":"/discover/animals/common-basilisk","category":"reptiles","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/common-basilisk-480.webp?v=2f423a983fd56c25","alt":"A male common basilisk resting on a log in Panama","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:reptiles","tag:lizard","tag:runs-on-water","tag:rivers","tag:tree-climber","tag:central-america","habitat:wetlands","continent:north-america","continent:south-america","subgroup:lizard","iucn:lc"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:common-blackbird","kind":"animal","title":"Common blackbird","summary":"The common blackbird is a thrush found in gardens, parks and woods across Europe, North Africa and parts of Asia. Males are glossy black with a bright yellow-orange bill and eye-ring, females are brown, and on summer evenings males sing a mellow, fluting song from high perches.","path":"/discover/animals/common-blackbird","category":"birds","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/common-blackbird-480.webp?v=4c24cabef9197b66","alt":"Common blackbird, Male, Subspecies T","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:birds","tag:songbird","tag:thrush","tag:garden-bird","habitat:temperate-forest","continent:europe","continent:asia","continent:africa","continent:oceania","subgroup:songbird","has:sound","has:journey","iucn:lc"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:blue-morpho","kind":"animal","title":"Common blue morpho","summary":"The common blue morpho is a large butterfly of the forests of Mexico, Central America and South America. The tops of its wings flash bright blue, but the undersides are brown with big eyespots, which camouflage it when it lands with its wings closed. Adults sip juice from rotting fruit instead of nectar.","path":"/discover/animals/blue-morpho","category":"invertebrates","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/blue-morpho-480.webp?v=113379fce3941bfe","alt":"Photo of Common blue morpho","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:invertebrates","tag:insect","tag:rainforest","tag:camouflage","tag:metamorphosis","habitat:amazon-rainforest","continent:north-america","continent:south-america","subgroup:insect"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:bottlenose-dolphin","kind":"animal","title":"Common bottlenose dolphin","summary":"The common bottlenose dolphin is a fast, clever ocean mammal named for its short, thick snout. It finds fish with echoes, talks with whistles and clicks, and lives in warm and mild seas all around the world.","path":"/discover/animals/bottlenose-dolphin","category":"mammals","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/bottlenose-dolphin-480.webp?v=9d8e88eae7f03781","alt":"Atlantic bottlenose dolphin jumping at Pelican point, Namibia","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:mammals","has:3d","tag:ocean","tag:marine-mammal","tag:echolocation","tag:superpower","subgroup:marine-mammal","iucn:lc"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:common-carp","kind":"animal","title":"Common carp","summary":"The common carp is a large, sturdy fish with big scales and little whisker-like barbels by its mouth. It comes from rivers and lakes of Europe and Central Asia, but people have carried it to every continent except Antarctica, where it can muddy the water and harm water plants. 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It is a relative of octopuses and squids, and it is a champion of camouflage: it can change its colors and patterns in moments to match the sea floor, and it floats using a light, hollow shell inside its body called a cuttlebone.","path":"/discover/animals/common-cuttlefish","category":"invertebrates","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/common-cuttlefish-480.webp?v=c1b5032ad705746c","alt":"Common cuttlefish , Arr\u00E1bida National Park, Portugal","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:invertebrates","tag:cuttlefish","tag:mollusc","tag:camouflage","tag:color-change","tag:superpower","continent:europe","continent:africa","subgroup:mollusc","iucn:lc"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:common-earthworm","kind":"animal","title":"Common earthworm","summary":"The common earthworm digs deep tunnels in the soil and comes up at night to drag fallen leaves down to eat. It breathes through its damp skin, has red blood and five pairs of heart-like pumps. Its tunnels and droppings help keep soil healthy.","path":"/discover/animals/common-earthworm","category":"invertebrates","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/common-earthworm-480.webp?v=f9ee7dc3158d1089","alt":"Photo of Common earthworm","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:invertebrates","tag:worm","tag:soil","tag:nocturnal","tag:garden-helper","habitat:grasslands","continent:europe","continent:north-america","subgroup:worm"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:common-eastern-firefly","kind":"animal","title":"Common eastern firefly","summary":"The common eastern firefly, or big dipper firefly, is a beetle that makes its own light. On summer evenings, males fly over lawns and fields, drawing a J-shaped flash in the air, and females on the ground flash back. Most of its life is spent as a glowing larva in damp soil, hunting snails and worms.","path":"/discover/animals/common-eastern-firefly","category":"invertebrates","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/common-eastern-firefly-480.webp?v=8c74f1173dd7218a","alt":"Photo of Common eastern firefly","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:invertebrates","tag:insect","tag:beetle","tag:nocturnal","tag:bioluminescence","tag:superpower","habitat:grasslands","habitat:temperate-forest","continent:north-america","subgroup:insect","iucn:lc"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:common-frog","kind":"animal","title":"Common frog","summary":"The common frog is a familiar frog of ponds and gardens across Europe. It spends most of the year in damp grass, gardens and woods, and every spring it returns to ponds to lay clumps of frogspawn that grow into tadpoles and then little froglets.","path":"/discover/animals/common-frog","category":"amphibians","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/common-frog-480.webp?v=3fca9fbc1585af54","alt":"The Common Frog also known as the European Common Frog or European Common Brown Frog","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:amphibians","tag:pond","tag:garden","tag:frogspawn","tag:europe","habitat:wetlands","habitat:temperate-forest","continent:europe","continent:asia","subgroup:frog","has:sound","iucn:lc"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:common-garter-snake","kind":"animal","title":"Common garter snake","summary":"The common garter snake is one of the most familiar snakes in North America. It has light stripes along a dark body, it lives almost everywhere from Canada to Florida, and it copes with cold better than most snakes. In spring, huge numbers come out of their winter dens together.","path":"/discover/animals/common-garter-snake","category":"reptiles","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/common-garter-snake-480.webp?v=7a85363eff4b6991","alt":"Common Garter Snake, Thamnophis sirtalis, Family: Colubridae, Location: Germany, Ulm, Zoological Garden","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:reptiles","tag:snake","tag:stripes","tag:live-birth","tag:cold-hardy","tag:north-america","habitat:wetlands","habitat:grasslands","habitat:temperate-forest","continent:north-america","subgroup:snake","iucn:lc"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:common-green-darner","kind":"animal","title":"Common green darner","summary":"The common green darner is one of North America\u0027s larger and best-known dragonflies, up to about 8 centimeters long. It begins life as an underwater nymph, then becomes a fast flier that catches insects in the air. Many green darners migrate, in a relay that takes at least three generations each year.","path":"/discover/animals/common-green-darner","category":"invertebrates","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/common-green-darner-480.webp?v=67969d56f296299c","alt":"Live adult female green darner dragonfly, Anax junius","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:invertebrates","tag:dragonfly","tag:insect","tag:migration","tag:wetlands","tag:metamorphosis","habitat:wetlands","continent:north-america","subgroup:insect","iucn:lc"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:hippopotamus","kind":"animal","title":"Common hippopotamus","summary":"The common hippopotamus is one of the biggest animals on land, yet it spends most of the day resting in rivers and lakes to keep cool. At night it walks out to graze, and its special skin makes its own sunscreen.","path":"/discover/animals/hippopotamus","category":"mammals","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/hippopotamus-480.webp?v=84006afba642943f","alt":"Hippopotamus with a Western Cattle Egret , Chobe National Park, Botswana","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:mammals","tag:rivers","tag:savanna","tag:vulnerable","tag:superpower","habitat:african-savanna","habitat:wetlands","continent:africa","subgroup:hoofed","iucn:vu"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:common-kingfisher","kind":"animal","title":"Common kingfisher","summary":"The common kingfisher is a small, dazzling blue and orange bird of rivers, canals and lakes across Europe, Asia and North Africa. It watches from a perch, then dives headfirst into the water to catch small fish with its dagger-shaped bill.","path":"/discover/animals/common-kingfisher","category":"birds","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/common-kingfisher-480.webp?v=e86d6e365c8b9ba3","alt":"Photo of Common kingfisher","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:birds","has:3d","tag:rivers","tag:diving","tag:fish-eater","tag:bright-colors","habitat:wetlands","continent:europe","continent:asia","continent:africa","subgroup:tropical","has:sound","has:journey","iucn:lc"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:common-loon","kind":"animal","title":"Common loon","summary":"The common loon is a big diving bird of northern lakes. In summer it wears a black head, a striped white necklace and a checkered back. It chases fish underwater, calls with eerie wails and yodels, and spends the winter on the coast.","path":"/discover/animals/common-loon","category":"birds","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/common-loon-480.webp?v=3f479e7a526859bb","alt":"A Great Northern Loon in Minocqua, Wisconsin, USA","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:birds","tag:waterbird","tag:diver","tag:lakes","tag:migration","habitat:wetlands","continent:north-america","continent:europe","subgroup:waterbird","has:sound","has:journey","iucn:lc"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:common-murre","kind":"animal","title":"Common murre","summary":"The common murre is a seabird of cold northern oceans that looks a little like a flying penguin. It dives deep to chase fish, nests in huge crowds on cliff ledges, and its chicks flutter down from the cliff to the sea before they can even fly.","path":"/discover/animals/common-murre","category":"birds","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/common-murre-480.webp?v=19949bffb9e72243","alt":"Photo of Common murre","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:birds","has:3d","tag:seabirds","tag:ocean","tag:diving","tag:colonies","habitat:arctic","continent:europe","continent:north-america","continent:asia","subgroup:seabird","has:sound","has:journey","iucn:lc"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:common-nightingale","kind":"animal","title":"Common nightingale","summary":"The common nightingale is a plain brown songbird with one of the most famous songs in the world. Males sing from thick bushes, often in the middle of the night, and every year the birds fly from Europe and Asia to Africa for the winter.","path":"/discover/animals/common-nightingale","category":"birds","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/common-nightingale-480.webp?v=12313cb234440ca3","alt":"A common nightingale in Belgium","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:birds","tag:songbird","tag:night-singer","tag:migrant","habitat:temperate-forest","continent:europe","continent:asia","continent:africa","subgroup:songbird","has:sound","has:journey","iucn:lc"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:common-octopus","kind":"animal","title":"Common octopus","summary":"The common octopus is a soft-bodied mollusc with eight sucker-lined arms. It lives in coastal waters, hides in a den by day, hunts snails and clams at night, and can change its color, skin texture and shape to vanish against rocks or sand. It lives only one to two years.","path":"/discover/animals/common-octopus","category":"invertebrates","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/common-octopus-480.webp?v=91c9ba955b5fbfb0","alt":"Photo of Common octopus","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:invertebrates","has:3d","tag:mollusc","tag:ocean","tag:camouflage","tag:nocturnal","tag:superpower","habitat:coral-reef","subgroup:mollusc","iucn:lc"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:ostrich","kind":"animal","title":"Common ostrich","summary":"The common ostrich is the tallest and heaviest bird alive. It cannot fly, but it is the fastest runner on two legs, sprinting at about 70 kilometers an hour across the savannas and deserts of Africa. It also lays the biggest egg of any living animal.","path":"/discover/animals/ostrich","category":"birds","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/ostrich-480.webp?v=4b6a9abe637d6b17","alt":"Masai ostrich male, Serengeti National Park, Tanzania","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:birds","has:3d","tag:flightless","tag:savanna","tag:fastest-runner","tag:biggest-bird","habitat:african-savanna","habitat:desert","habitat:grasslands","continent:africa","subgroup:flightless","iucn:lc"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:common-pheasant","kind":"animal","title":"Common pheasant","summary":"The common pheasant is a long-tailed ground bird. Its wild home is Asia, from the Caspian Sea to China and Korea, but people have taken it to Europe, North America, New Zealand and other places. Males are bright and coppery with a red face; females are mottled brown.","path":"/discover/animals/common-pheasant","category":"birds","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/common-pheasant-480.webp?v=347916f8f81790c0","alt":"Male pheasant of the genus Edelfasan","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:birds","tag:gamebird","tag:farmland","tag:introduced","tag:long-tail","habitat:grasslands","continent:asia","continent:europe","continent:north-america","continent:oceania","subgroup:gamebird","has:sound","iucn:lc"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:raccoon","kind":"animal","title":"Common raccoon","summary":"The common raccoon is a clever night-time animal from North and Central America, famous for its black mask, ringed tail and nimble, hand-like front paws. It eats almost anything and lives in forests, wetlands, farms and even big cities. People have also brought raccoons to Europe and Japan, where they now live wild.","path":"/discover/animals/raccoon","category":"mammals","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/raccoon-480.webp?v=2fef598c90bf800c","alt":"Raccoon in the Central Park Ramble","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:mammals","tag:nocturnal","tag:towns-and-gardens","tag:clever-paws","tag:introduced-species","habitat:temperate-forest","habitat:wetlands","continent:north-america","continent:europe","continent:asia","subgroup:carnivore","iucn:lc"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:common-raven","kind":"animal","title":"Common raven","summary":"The common raven is the biggest member of the crow family and the largest songbird. It lives across most of the Northern Hemisphere, from deserts to Arctic tundra. Ravens eat almost anything, play games in the air, and have solved puzzles that scientists designed to test how well they can plan ahead.","path":"/discover/animals/common-raven","category":"birds","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/common-raven-480.webp?v=060eb3d105046c88","alt":"American Raven calling at Point Reyes National Seashore, Marin County, California","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:birds","tag:corvid","tag:songbird","tag:clever","tag:superpower","habitat:mountains","habitat:temperate-forest","habitat:arctic","habitat:desert","continent:north-america","continent:europe","continent:asia","continent:africa","subgroup:songbird","has:sound","iucn:lc"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:common-snapping-turtle","kind":"animal","title":"Common snapping turtle","summary":"The common snapping turtle is a big freshwater turtle of eastern North America. It hides in the mud of ponds and rivers with just its nose poking up, eats almost anything it finds, and can live for many decades. Each summer, mother turtles walk over land to dig nests in sand and gravel.","path":"/discover/animals/common-snapping-turtle","category":"reptiles","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/common-snapping-turtle-480.webp?v=a5e2053a3953bb67","alt":"Common snapping turtle","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:reptiles","has:3d","tag:turtle","tag:freshwater","tag:wetlands","tag:long-lived","habitat:wetlands","continent:north-america","subgroup:turtle","iucn:lc"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:common-starfish","kind":"animal","title":"Common starfish","summary":"The common starfish is the most familiar starfish of the north-east Atlantic coasts. It has five arms, an eye spot at the tip of each one, and many tube feet. It can pull open a mussel shell and push its own stomach inside to eat.","path":"/discover/animals/common-starfish","category":"invertebrates","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/common-starfish-480.webp?v=23da2880f3143355","alt":"Photo of Common starfish","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:invertebrates","tag:echinoderm","tag:seashore","tag:regrows-arms","tag:ocean","subgroup:echinoderm"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:european-starling","kind":"animal","title":"Common starling","summary":"The common starling, also called the European starling, is a glossy, spotted songbird from Europe, Asia and North Africa. It is a brilliant copycat that can imitate other birds and even car alarms, and in winter huge flocks swirl through the evening sky in shows called murmurations. People also carried starlings to North America, Australia and other places, where they now live in the wild.","path":"/discover/animals/european-starling","category":"birds","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/european-starling-480.webp?v=bb74cdc04084c5da","alt":"Common starling in Toulouse","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:birds","has:3d","tag:murmuration","tag:mimic","tag:introduced-species","tag:city-bird","habitat:grasslands","continent:europe","continent:asia","continent:africa","continent:north-america","continent:south-america","continent:oceania","subgroup:songbird","has:sound","has:journey","iucn:lc"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:common-toad","kind":"animal","title":"Common toad","summary":"The common toad is a warty brown amphibian that lives across Europe and into Asia. It spends most of the year on land, hunting slugs, worms and insects at night, then travels back to the pond where it hatched to lay long strings of eggs each spring.","path":"/discover/animals/common-toad","category":"amphibians","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/common-toad-480.webp?v=9d71be122601196a","alt":"The common toad or european toad","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:amphibians","tag:toad","tag:amphibian","tag:garden","tag:migration","tag:night","habitat:temperate-forest","habitat:wetlands","habitat:grasslands","continent:europe","continent:asia","subgroup:frog","has:sound","iucn:lc"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:common-vampire-bat","kind":"animal","title":"Common vampire bat","summary":"Common vampire bats are small bats of warm parts of Mexico, Central and South America. They feed only on blood, mostly from livestock such as cattle, horses and pigs. They can walk, run and hop on the ground, and they share food with their roost mates.","path":"/discover/animals/common-vampire-bat","category":"mammals","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/common-vampire-bat-480.webp?v=fde5122a8fadfb1d","alt":"Common Vampire Bat, Desmodus rotundus, running on the ground","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:mammals","tag:bats","tag:night","tag:caves","tag:superpower","habitat:amazon-rainforest","continent:north-america","continent:south-america","subgroup:bat","iucn:lc"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:warthog","kind":"animal","title":"Common warthog","summary":"Common warthogs are tough wild pigs of the African savanna. They kneel down to eat short grass, sleep in old aardvark burrows and run with their tails held straight up like little flags. The bumps on their faces are thick pads of skin.","path":"/discover/animals/warthog","category":"mammals","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/warthog-480.webp?v=00e19ae6bd6a4965","alt":"Nolan warthog , Senegal","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:mammals","tag:savanna","tag:pigs","tag:tusks","tag:burrows","habitat:african-savanna","habitat:grasslands","continent:africa","subgroup:hoofed","has:sound","iucn:lc"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:common-wasp","kind":"animal","title":"Common wasp","summary":"The common wasp is a black and yellow striped insect that lives in a big family called a colony. Thousands of wasps share a round nest made of paper that they make by chewing wood. They catch insects such as caterpillars and flies to feed their young, which makes them useful garden helpers.","path":"/discover/animals/common-wasp","category":"invertebrates","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/common-wasp-480.webp?v=e83ec9806fc04d7e","alt":"Photo of Common wasp","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:invertebrates","has:3d","tag:insect","tag:social-insect","tag:nest-builder","tag:predator","tag:gardens","habitat:temperate-forest","habitat:grasslands","continent:europe","continent:asia","subgroup:insect"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:common-wombat","kind":"animal","title":"Common wombat","summary":"The common wombat, or bare-nosed wombat, is a stocky, barrel-shaped marsupial of south-eastern Australia and Tasmania. It is one of the world\u0027s largest burrowing animals, spends about two thirds of its life underground and leaves cube-shaped poop to mark its patch.","path":"/discover/animals/common-wombat","category":"mammals","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/common-wombat-480.webp?v=b628c68a2c7006b9","alt":"Common wombat female with juvenile, Maria Island, TAS, Australia","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:mammals","tag:marsupial","tag:burrower","tag:nocturnal","tag:australia","habitat:temperate-forest","habitat:mountains","continent:oceania","subgroup:marsupial","iucn:lc"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:corn-snake","kind":"animal","title":"Corn snake","summary":"The corn snake is a slender, colorful snake of the pine woods, fields and old barns of the southeastern United States. It has red blotches outlined in black and a black-and-white checkered belly. It has no venom: it catches mice and rats by squeezing them, and it spends much of its time hidden in burrows.","path":"/discover/animals/corn-snake","category":"reptiles","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/corn-snake-480.webp?v=509eea4313366ff1","alt":"Photo of Corn snake","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:reptiles","tag:snake","tag:constrictor","tag:forest","tag:north-america","tag:pet","habitat:temperate-forest","habitat:grasslands","continent:north-america","subgroup:snake","iucn:lc"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:coyote","kind":"animal","title":"Coyote","summary":"The coyote is a clever, adaptable wild dog that lives from Alaska and Canada to Panama. It is smaller than a wolf and bigger than a fox. Coyotes eat mostly mice, voles and rabbits, howl and yip to keep in touch, and live everywhere from deserts and forests to city parks.","path":"/discover/animals/coyote","category":"mammals","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/coyote-480.webp?v=5989e840f2cc9787","alt":"Photo of Coyote","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:mammals","has:3d","tag:dog-family","tag:howl","tag:nocturnal","tag:adaptable","tag:least-concern","habitat:grasslands","habitat:desert","habitat:temperate-forest","continent:north-america","subgroup:dog-family","has:sound","iucn:lc"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:crown-of-thorns-starfish","kind":"animal","title":"Crown-of-thorns starfish","summary":"The crown-of-thorns starfish is a large sea star of Indian and Pacific Ocean reefs, with up to 21 arms and hundreds of sharp, toxic spines. It eats living coral by pushing its stomach out over it. Usually it is a normal part of the reef, but sometimes huge numbers appear, called outbreaks, and they can eat much of a reef\u0027s coral.","path":"/discover/animals/crown-of-thorns-starfish","category":"invertebrates","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/crown-of-thorns-starfish-480.webp?v=d7a4cbdb1f0fbc69","alt":"Photo of Crown-of-thorns starfish","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:invertebrates","tag:echinoderm","tag:sea-star","tag:coral-reef","tag:superpower","habitat:coral-reef","subgroup:echinoderm"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:desert-locust","kind":"animal","title":"Desert locust","summary":"The desert locust is a large grasshopper of the deserts of Africa, the Middle East and Southwest Asia. Most of the time it lives alone. But after good rains, when locusts become crowded, they change their color and behavior and can gather into enormous swarms that fly long distances and eat farmers\u0027 crops.","path":"/discover/animals/desert-locust","category":"invertebrates","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/desert-locust-480.webp?v=ef57ee81a322f107","alt":"Desert Locust Schistocerca gregaria at Bristol Zoo, Bristol, England","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:invertebrates","tag:grasshopper","tag:insect","tag:swarm","tag:desert","tag:migration","habitat:desert","habitat:grasslands","continent:africa","continent:asia","subgroup:insect"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:desert-tortoise","kind":"animal","title":"Desert tortoise","summary":"The desert tortoise, also called the Mojave desert tortoise, lives in the deserts of the south-western United States. It spends most of its life in underground burrows, stores water in its body, and can live for 50 years or more. Sadly, it is now critically endangered.","path":"/discover/animals/desert-tortoise","category":"reptiles","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/desert-tortoise-480.webp?v=0e91087aabe2cb06","alt":"Gopherus agassizii \u2014 Desert tortoise","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:reptiles","tag:desert","tag:burrow","tag:long-lived","tag:critically-endangered","habitat:desert","continent:north-america","subgroup:turtle","iucn:cr"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:dingo","kind":"animal","title":"Dingo","summary":"The dingo is Australia\u0027s wild dog and the country\u0027s largest meat-eating mammal. People brought its ancestors to Australia about 4,000 years ago. It hunts rabbits, kangaroos and wallabies, howls rather than barks, and scientists still argue about whether it is its own species or a very old kind of dog.","path":"/discover/animals/dingo","category":"mammals","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/dingo-480.webp?v=ff0d7790a02cb81f","alt":"Dingo , beside Yelllow Water, Kakadu National Park, NT, Australia","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:mammals","tag:dog-family","tag:australia","tag:howl","tag:nocturnal","habitat:desert","habitat:grasslands","continent:oceania","subgroup:dog-family"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:domestic-cat","kind":"animal","title":"Domestic cat","summary":"The domestic cat is one of the world\u0027s favorite pets. Cats live with people in homes, farms and towns in almost every country on Earth. Long ago they came from a small wildcat of the Middle East and Africa, and they still have the sharp senses and soft paws of a wild hunter.","path":"/discover/animals/domestic-cat","category":"mammals","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/domestic-cat-480.webp?v=f8ef8ed2194a1c92","alt":"Domestic cat, a ten month old female","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:mammals","has:3d","tag:pet","tag:domesticated","tag:small-cat","tag:senses","tag:towns-and-gardens","continent:africa","continent:asia","continent:europe","continent:north-america","continent:south-america","continent:oceania","subgroup:small-cat","has:domestic"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:domestic-dog","kind":"animal","title":"Domestic dog","summary":"The domestic dog has lived with people for more than 12,000 years. Dogs came from gray wolves, and today there are more than 400 breeds, from tiny Chihuahuas to giant Irish wolfhounds. They live with people all over the world as pets, helpers and friends.","path":"/discover/animals/domestic-dog","category":"mammals","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/domestic-dog-480.webp?v=ea42802afcf2d11f","alt":"Photo of Domestic dog","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:mammals","has:3d","tag:pet","tag:domesticated","tag:dog-family","tag:senses","tag:towns-and-gardens","continent:africa","continent:asia","continent:europe","continent:north-america","continent:south-america","continent:oceania","subgroup:dog-family","has:sound","has:domestic"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:domestic-goat","kind":"animal","title":"Domestic goat","summary":"Domestic goats are lively farm animals that came from a wild goat of Asia. They reach up to nibble leaves, twigs and weeds that other farm animals leave behind, and people keep them for milk, cheese, meat, wool and leather.","path":"/discover/animals/domestic-goat","category":"mammals","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/domestic-goat-480.webp?v=a1e658fcde52b858","alt":"Male goat , Margarita Island, Venezuela","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:mammals","has:3d","tag:farm-animal","tag:domesticated","tag:ruminant","tag:climber","habitat:mountains","habitat:grasslands","continent:africa","continent:asia","continent:europe","continent:north-america","continent:south-america","continent:oceania","subgroup:hoofed","has:domestic"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:domestic-pig","kind":"animal","title":"Domestic pig","summary":"Domestic pigs live with people on every continent except Antarctica. Their ancestor is the wild boar, which people began taming about 9,000 years ago. Pigs are among the smartest farm animals, with a super-sensitive snout for digging up food.","path":"/discover/animals/domestic-pig","category":"mammals","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/domestic-pig-480.webp?v=13f5eab00180dc26","alt":"Photo of Domestic pig","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:mammals","has:3d","tag:farm","tag:domesticated","tag:clever","tag:worldwide","continent:africa","continent:asia","continent:europe","continent:north-america","continent:south-america","continent:oceania","subgroup:hoofed","has:domestic"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:domestic-sheep","kind":"animal","title":"Domestic sheep","summary":"Domestic sheep are farm animals that people tamed in western Asia thousands of years ago. They graze on grass, digest it with a four-part stomach and stick together in flocks. People keep sheep for wool, meat, milk and leather.","path":"/discover/animals/domestic-sheep","category":"mammals","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/domestic-sheep-480.webp?v=149bd8b3ba4b7755","alt":"Photo of Domestic sheep","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:mammals","has:3d","tag:farm-animal","tag:domesticated","tag:ruminant","tag:wool","habitat:grasslands","habitat:mountains","continent:africa","continent:asia","continent:europe","continent:north-america","continent:south-america","continent:oceania","subgroup:hoofed","has:sound","has:domestic"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:silk-moth","kind":"animal","title":"Domestic silk moth","summary":"The domestic silk moth is an insect people have kept for thousands of years. Its caterpillar, the silkworm, eats mulberry leaves and spins a cocoon from one long silk thread. People unwind those threads to make silk cloth. Silk moths now live only with people: the adults cannot even fly.","path":"/discover/animals/silk-moth","category":"invertebrates","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/silk-moth-480.webp?v=51516989c864ff2c","alt":"Adult female silk moth","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:invertebrates","has:3d","tag:insect","tag:moth","tag:domesticated","tag:metamorphosis","continent:asia","continent:south-america","subgroup:insect","has:domestic"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:donkey","kind":"animal","title":"Donkey","summary":"Donkeys are domesticated members of the horse family, bred from the African wild ass more than 6,000 years ago. With their long ears, sure feet and great strength, they have carried loads for people on rough, dry land ever since, and in many countries they still do that work today.","path":"/discover/animals/donkey","category":"mammals","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/donkey-480.webp?v=7f40da923f7c4365","alt":"The donkey was standing behind a fence at a date farm when driving from Jerusalem to the Dead Sea","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:mammals","has:3d","tag:farm","tag:domesticated","tag:desert","tag:worldwide","continent:africa","continent:asia","continent:europe","continent:north-america","continent:south-america","continent:oceania","subgroup:hoofed","has:sound","has:domestic"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:dromedary-camel","kind":"animal","title":"Dromedary camel","summary":"The dromedary, or Arabian camel, is the one-humped camel of the deserts of North Africa, the Middle East and India. Its hump stores fat, not water, and its body is full of tricks for saving water. People tamed dromedaries thousands of years ago, and today none live truly wild, except a large feral population in Australia.","path":"/discover/animals/dromedary-camel","category":"mammals","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/dromedary-camel-480.webp?v=398bf3f59b5f2902","alt":"Sahara camel calf feeding from her mother","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:mammals","has:3d","tag:desert","tag:domesticated","tag:superpower","tag:hump","habitat:desert","continent:africa","continent:asia","continent:oceania","subgroup:hoofed","has:domestic"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:dugong","kind":"animal","title":"Dugong","summary":"The dugong is a large, slow marine mammal that grazes on seagrass meadows in warm, shallow coastal seas from East Africa to the western Pacific. It is a relative of the manatee and, surprisingly, more closely related to elephants than to cows. It has a whale-like tail, a big bristly snout and very good hearing.","path":"/discover/animals/dugong","category":"mammals","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/dugong-480.webp?v=1b4aa476282bf5f5","alt":"A Dugong near Marsa Alam","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:mammals","tag:sea-cow","tag:seagrass","tag:coasts","tag:plant-eater","tag:vulnerable","habitat:coral-reef","subgroup:marine-mammal","iucn:vu"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:dyeing-poison-frog","kind":"animal","title":"Dyeing poison frog","summary":"The dyeing poison frog lives in the rainforests of Suriname, Guyana, French Guiana and nearby Brazil. It comes in many dazzling patterns of blue, yellow, black and white, which warn predators about poison in its skin. Fathers carry their tadpoles on their backs to little pools of water.","path":"/discover/animals/dyeing-poison-frog","category":"amphibians","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/dyeing-poison-frog-480.webp?v=1bda7f14aa1bfdc9","alt":"Photo of Dyeing poison frog","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:amphibians","has:3d","tag:poison-frog","tag:warning-colors","tag:rainforest","tag:parent-care","habitat:amazon-rainforest","continent:south-america","subgroup:frog","iucn:lc"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:eastern-bluebird","kind":"animal","title":"Eastern bluebird","summary":"The eastern bluebird is a small thrush of open fields and parks in eastern North America, south to Central America. Males are bright blue with a rusty orange chest. Bluebirds watch from wires and fence posts, flutter down to catch insects, and nest in tree holes and in nest boxes that people put up for them.","path":"/discover/animals/eastern-bluebird","category":"birds","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/eastern-bluebird-480.webp?v=676953dd1f113f0a","alt":"Photo of Eastern bluebird","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:birds","has:3d","tag:thrush","tag:nest-box","tag:backyard-bird","tag:comeback","habitat:grasslands","habitat:temperate-forest","continent:north-america","subgroup:songbird","has:sound","iucn:lc"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:eastern-box-turtle","kind":"animal","title":"Eastern box turtle","summary":"The eastern box turtle is a small land turtle of eastern North America with a high, domed shell splashed with yellow and orange. A hinge on the bottom shell lets it close up almost completely, like a box with a lid. It eats mushrooms, berries, worms and slugs and can live for decades.","path":"/discover/animals/eastern-box-turtle","category":"reptiles","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/eastern-box-turtle-480.webp?v=9799444a5c0debdf","alt":"Box turtle sleeping along the Cove Mountain Trail in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park of Sevier County, Tennessee, USA","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:reptiles","has:3d","tag:turtle","tag:forest","tag:hinged-shell","tag:long-lived","habitat:temperate-forest","habitat:grasslands","continent:north-america","subgroup:turtle","iucn:vu"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:eastern-chipmunk","kind":"animal","title":"Eastern chipmunk","summary":"Eastern chipmunks are small ground squirrels with five dark stripes down their backs. They live in the woods, yards and parks of eastern North America, carry food in stretchy cheek pouches, and store it in underground burrows for the winter.","path":"/discover/animals/eastern-chipmunk","category":"mammals","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/eastern-chipmunk-480.webp?v=f837cc4648bf29d1","alt":"Photo of Eastern chipmunk","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:mammals","tag:forest","tag:rodents","tag:burrows","tag:towns-and-gardens","habitat:temperate-forest","continent:north-america","subgroup:rodent-and-rabbit","has:sound","iucn:lc"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:eastern-gorilla","kind":"animal","title":"Eastern gorilla","summary":"The eastern gorilla is the gorilla of the misty mountains and forests of east-central Africa. It has two kinds: the shaggy mountain gorilla, whose numbers are slowly growing, and the big Grauer\u0027s gorilla, which has become much rarer.","path":"/discover/animals/eastern-gorilla","category":"mammals","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/eastern-gorilla-480.webp?v=96a8271fd78c6684","alt":"Mountain gorilla , Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, Uganda","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:mammals","tag:great-ape","tag:primate","tag:mountains","tag:critically-endangered","habitat:mountains","continent:africa","subgroup:primate","iucn:cr"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:eastern-gray-squirrel","kind":"animal","title":"Eastern gray squirrel","summary":"Eastern gray squirrels are bushy-tailed tree squirrels from the forests of eastern North America, and they are a common sight in parks and gardens. They bury nuts to eat later. People also took them to Britain and other countries; in Britain they cause problems for the native red squirrel.","path":"/discover/animals/eastern-gray-squirrel","category":"mammals","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/eastern-gray-squirrel-480.webp?v=17c3bffddcfbce2f","alt":"Grey squirrel standing on its hind legs in Bute Park, Cardiff","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:mammals","has:3d","tag:forest","tag:towns-and-gardens","tag:rodents","tag:invasive","habitat:temperate-forest","continent:north-america","continent:europe","subgroup:rodent-and-rabbit","has:sound","iucn:lc"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:eastern-grey-kangaroo","kind":"animal","title":"Eastern grey kangaroo","summary":"The eastern grey kangaroo is a big, woolly gray kangaroo of eastern Australia and Tasmania. It hops on powerful back legs, balances with its long tail and grazes on grass in groups called mobs. Its joey is born weighing less than a gram and grows up in its mother\u0027s pouch.","path":"/discover/animals/eastern-grey-kangaroo","category":"mammals","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/eastern-grey-kangaroo-480.webp?v=5d1815cb5192ee01","alt":"Eastern Grey Kangaroo mother and joey, Brunkerville, New South Wales, Australia","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:mammals","tag:marsupial","tag:kangaroo","tag:hopper","tag:australia","habitat:grasslands","habitat:temperate-forest","continent:oceania","subgroup:marsupial","iucn:lc"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:tiger-salamander","kind":"animal","title":"Eastern tiger salamander","summary":"The eastern tiger salamander is one of North America\u0027s biggest land salamanders: dark and shiny, with yellow or olive blotches. It spends most of its life in burrows, then walks to fishless ponds on rainy nights to lay its eggs. Its babies live in water and breathe with feathery gills.","path":"/discover/animals/tiger-salamander","category":"amphibians","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/tiger-salamander-480.webp?v=a933a52b389cf29c","alt":"Tigersalamander , Seitenansicht, im Clark County, Missouri, Vereinigte Staaten","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:amphibians","tag:salamander","tag:amphibian","tag:burrow","tag:pond","tag:night","habitat:grasslands","habitat:wetlands","habitat:temperate-forest","continent:north-america","subgroup:salamander","iucn:lc"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:eastern-tiger-swallowtail","kind":"animal","title":"Eastern tiger swallowtail","summary":"The eastern tiger swallowtail is a large butterfly of eastern North America. Males are yellow with black tiger stripes, while many females are dark, which helps them look like a bad-tasting butterfly. Its caterpillars disguise themselves as bird droppings, then turn green with big fake eyes.","path":"/discover/animals/eastern-tiger-swallowtail","category":"invertebrates","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/eastern-tiger-swallowtail-480.webp?v=76f9b38105d08a98","alt":"A beautiful male Eastern Tiger Swallowtail","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:invertebrates","has:3d","tag:insect","tag:butterfly","tag:metamorphosis","tag:mimicry","habitat:temperate-forest","continent:north-america","subgroup:insect"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:electric-eel","kind":"animal","title":"Electric eel","summary":"The electric eel is a long, snake-shaped fish from South America that makes its own electricity. It uses weak pulses to find its way and talk, and strong ones to catch food. Despite its name, it is not a true eel at all.","path":"/discover/animals/electric-eel","category":"fish","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/electric-eel-480.webp?v=783a5425d87fb28f","alt":"Photo of Electric eel","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:fish","tag:superpower","tag:freshwater","tag:rainforest","tag:electricity","habitat:amazon-rainforest","habitat:wetlands","continent:south-america","subgroup:freshwater-fish","iucn:lc"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:emperor-angelfish","kind":"animal","title":"Emperor angelfish","summary":"The emperor angelfish is a striped reef fish from the Indian and Pacific Oceans. Adults are blue with bright yellow stripes, a yellow tail and a dark mask across the eyes. Young ones are dark blue with white and blue rings, and they change color as they grow. Emperor angelfish nibble sponges on the reef.","path":"/discover/animals/emperor-angelfish","category":"fish","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/emperor-angelfish-480.webp?v=ca4612a621e0422f","alt":"Emperor angelfish , Red Sea, Egypt","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:fish","tag:coral-reef","tag:colorful","tag:color-change","tag:cleaner","habitat:coral-reef","subgroup:reef-fish","iucn:lc"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:emperor-penguin","kind":"animal","title":"Emperor penguin","summary":"The emperor penguin is the largest penguin in the world. It lives around Antarctica, and it is the only animal that breeds during the dark, freezing Antarctic winter. Fathers keep the egg warm on their feet for about two months, huddled together against the storms.","path":"/discover/animals/emperor-penguin","category":"birds","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/emperor-penguin-480.webp?v=4e51e10499b15bab","alt":"An Emperor Penguin in Antarctica jumping out of the water","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:birds","tag:penguin","tag:antarctic","tag:sea-ice","tag:deep-diver","tag:huddle","habitat:antarctic","continent:antarctica","subgroup:penguin","iucn:nt"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:emperor-scorpion","kind":"animal","title":"Emperor scorpion","summary":"The emperor scorpion is one of the biggest scorpions in the world, up to about 20 centimeters long. It lives in the warm, humid forests of West Africa, where it digs burrows and hunts insects such as termites at night. Mothers give birth to live young and carry them on their backs. Like other scorpions, it glows blue-green under ultraviolet light.","path":"/discover/animals/emperor-scorpion","category":"invertebrates","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/emperor-scorpion-480.webp?v=ed764e375de2c5ca","alt":"This emperor scorpion or imperial scorpion is a species of scorpion native to Africa","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:invertebrates","tag:scorpion","tag:arachnid","tag:rainforest","tag:giant","tag:glows","continent:africa","subgroup:arachnid"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:emu","kind":"animal","title":"Emu","summary":"The emu is Australia\u0027s tallest native bird and the second-largest bird in the world, after the ostrich. It cannot fly, but it can sprint at about 48 kilometers an hour. Emus are famous fathers: the male sits on the eggs for about eight weeks without eating, then looks after the striped chicks.","path":"/discover/animals/emu","category":"birds","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/emu-480.webp?v=6b5f5134cb9ad456","alt":"Emu , Tidbinbilla, Australian Capital Territory, Australia","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:birds","tag:flightless","tag:australia","tag:fathers-raise-chicks","tag:runner","habitat:grasslands","continent:oceania","subgroup:flightless","has:sound","iucn:lc"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:epaulette-shark","kind":"animal","title":"Epaulette shark","summary":"The epaulette shark is a small, slender shark of Australia\u0027s Great Barrier Reef. It has a big black spot ringed with white above each front fin, and it can \u0027walk\u0027 along the reef, and even out of the water, by wriggling and pushing with its paddle-shaped fins. It can survive for a while in water with very little oxygen.","path":"/discover/animals/epaulette-shark","category":"fish","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/epaulette-shark-480.webp?v=c233fa6f2e54f037","alt":"Photo of Epaulette shark","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:fish","has:3d","tag:shark","tag:coral-reef","tag:walking","tag:australia","habitat:coral-reef","continent:oceania","subgroup:shark","iucn:lc"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:ethiopian-wolf","kind":"animal","title":"Ethiopian wolf","summary":"The Ethiopian wolf is a slender red wolf that lives only in the high mountains of Ethiopia. Wolf families share a territory, but each wolf hunts alone for rats and mole-rats. It is one of the rarest wild dogs on Earth.","path":"/discover/animals/ethiopian-wolf","category":"mammals","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/ethiopian-wolf-480.webp?v=cb1e88220f6b870a","alt":"Ethiopian wolf with Helichrysum citrispinum, Sanetti Plateau, Ethiopia","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:mammals","has:3d","tag:dog-family","tag:mountains","tag:endangered","tag:rare","habitat:mountains","habitat:grasslands","continent:africa","subgroup:dog-family","iucn:en"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:eurasian-blue-tit","kind":"animal","title":"Eurasian blue tit","summary":"The Eurasian blue tit is a small, colorful songbird of woods, parks and gardens across Europe and western Asia. It hangs upside down to find caterpillars, nests in holes and nest boxes, and can lay a very large clutch of eggs once a year, timed for when caterpillars are plentiful.","path":"/discover/animals/eurasian-blue-tit","category":"birds","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/eurasian-blue-tit-480.webp?v=8d2c0611c776b083","alt":"Wild Eurasian blue tit feeding its baby at Pfyn-Finges","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:birds","has:3d","tag:garden-bird","tag:woodland","tag:nest-box","tag:acrobat","habitat:temperate-forest","continent:europe","continent:asia","subgroup:songbird","has:sound","iucn:lc"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:eurasian-eagle-owl","kind":"animal","title":"Eurasian eagle-owl","summary":"The Eurasian eagle-owl is one of the biggest owls in the world, with wings up to about 2 meters across, big orange eyes and two tall ear tufts. It lives across Europe and Asia, nests on rocky ledges and flies silently at night to catch rats, voles, hares and birds.","path":"/discover/animals/eurasian-eagle-owl","category":"birds","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/eurasian-eagle-owl-480.webp?v=35372e5006f0189e","alt":"Eurasian eagle-owl in captivity","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:birds","tag:owl","tag:bird-of-prey","tag:nocturnal","tag:ear-tufts","tag:rocky-places","habitat:mountains","habitat:temperate-forest","continent:europe","continent:asia","subgroup:owl","has:sound","iucn:lc"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:eurasian-lynx","kind":"animal","title":"Eurasian lynx","summary":"The Eurasian lynx is the largest of the four kinds of lynx. It has black ear tufts, a ruff of fur around its face, a short black-tipped tail and big furry paws for snow. It hides in forests and ambushes deer such as roe deer, and it has returned to parts of Europe where it had disappeared.","path":"/discover/animals/eurasian-lynx","category":"mammals","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/eurasian-lynx-480.webp?v=f1e583012a9f167a","alt":"Photo of Eurasian lynx","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:mammals","tag:cat-family","tag:forest","tag:nocturnal","tag:ear-tufts","tag:least-concern","habitat:temperate-forest","habitat:mountains","continent:europe","continent:asia","subgroup:small-cat","iucn:lc"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:european-bee-eater","kind":"animal","title":"European bee-eater","summary":"The European bee-eater is one of the most colorful birds in Europe. It catches bees, dragonflies and other flying insects in midair, knocks out the stings on a branch, and digs a long tunnel in a sandy bank for its nest. Every autumn it flies to Africa for the winter.","path":"/discover/animals/european-bee-eater","category":"birds","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/european-bee-eater-480.webp?v=2a015c457cd4a8d2","alt":"The European bee-eater, bird, animal, protection","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:birds","has:3d","tag:colorful","tag:migration","tag:insect-eater","tag:burrows","habitat:grasslands","habitat:african-savanna","continent:europe","continent:asia","continent:africa","subgroup:tropical","has:sound","has:journey","iucn:lc"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:european-garden-spider","kind":"animal","title":"European garden spider","summary":"The European garden spider is one of the best-known web-spinning spiders. It builds a round orb web, sits in the middle and waits to feel an insect land. Look for the white cross of spots on its back. It lives across Europe and Asia and was brought to North America, and it is harmless to people.","path":"/discover/animals/european-garden-spider","category":"invertebrates","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/european-garden-spider-480.webp?v=02ed5cfcd8eaeae9","alt":"Female cross spider on the leaf of common oak","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:invertebrates","tag:spider","tag:orb-weaver","tag:arachnid","tag:webs","tag:gardens","habitat:grasslands","habitat:temperate-forest","continent:europe","continent:asia","continent:north-america","subgroup:arachnid"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:european-hedgehog","kind":"animal","title":"European hedgehog","summary":"European hedgehogs are spiny mammals of woods, farmland, parks and gardens in western and northern Europe. They snuffle around at night for bugs and worms, roll into a ball to protect themselves and hibernate through the winter. Their numbers are falling in many countries.","path":"/discover/animals/european-hedgehog","category":"mammals","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/european-hedgehog-480.webp?v=beb263d2aea557da","alt":"Young European hedgehog , or common hedgehog, is a hedgehog species found in northern and western Europe","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:mammals","tag:towns-and-gardens","tag:hibernation","tag:spines","tag:near-threatened","habitat:temperate-forest","habitat:grasslands","continent:europe","subgroup:insectivore","has:sound","iucn:nt"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:herring-gull","kind":"animal","title":"European herring gull","summary":"The European herring gull is a large, noisy gull of European coasts, with a pale gray back, pink legs and a yellow bill marked with a red spot. It eats almost anything, from crabs and fish to scraps people throw away, and many now nest on rooftops in towns. Even so, its numbers are falling in many places.","path":"/discover/animals/herring-gull","category":"birds","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/herring-gull-480.webp?v=a01f0672b5b50834","alt":"European herring gull vocalizing in Hyde Park","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:birds","tag:gull","tag:seabird","tag:coast","tag:towns","tag:europe","continent:europe","subgroup:seabird","has:sound","has:journey","iucn:lc"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:praying-mantis","kind":"animal","title":"European mantis","summary":"The European mantis is the best-known praying mantis. It sits very still with its spiky front legs folded, then snatches insects that come close. It is native to Europe, Africa and much of Asia, and people brought it to North America more than 100 years ago.","path":"/discover/animals/praying-mantis","category":"invertebrates","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/praying-mantis-480.webp?v=ea4d25e82bdae778","alt":"Photo of European mantis","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:invertebrates","has:3d","tag:insect","tag:predator","tag:camouflage","tag:introduced","habitat:grasslands","continent:europe","continent:asia","continent:africa","continent:north-america","subgroup:insect","iucn:lc"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:european-peacock-butterfly","kind":"animal","title":"European peacock butterfly","summary":"The European peacock butterfly has rusty-red wings with four big, colorful eyespots, like the spots on a peacock\u0027s tail. When a bird comes close, it flashes its eyespots and makes a hissing sound. Its black, spiny caterpillars live together on stinging nettles, and the adults sleep through the winter in hollow trees and sheds.","path":"/discover/animals/european-peacock-butterfly","category":"invertebrates","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/european-peacock-butterfly-480.webp?v=53e4d31ab6f5646b","alt":"Photo of European peacock butterfly","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:invertebrates","has:3d","tag:butterfly","tag:insect","tag:metamorphosis","tag:eyespots","tag:gardens","habitat:grasslands","habitat:temperate-forest","continent:europe","continent:asia","subgroup:insect"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:european-rabbit","kind":"animal","title":"European rabbit","summary":"The European rabbit is the wild rabbit that all pet and farm rabbits come from. It lives in groups in big underground tunnel homes called warrens. Its numbers have fallen in its first home in Spain, Portugal and France, but people have carried it to many other places, where it became a pest.","path":"/discover/animals/european-rabbit","category":"mammals","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/european-rabbit-480.webp?v=1675ec8063953976","alt":"European rabbit in Austin\u0027s Ferry, Tasmania, Australia","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:mammals","has:3d","tag:burrower","tag:grasslands","tag:endangered","tag:introduced-species","habitat:grasslands","continent:europe","continent:africa","continent:oceania","subgroup:rodent-and-rabbit","iucn:en"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:european-robin","kind":"animal","title":"European robin","summary":"The European robin is a small songbird of Europe\u0027s woods, parks and gardens, famous for its orange-red breast. It sings almost all year round, even at night under streetlights, and it defends its patch fiercely. Young robins have no red breast at all: they are speckled with golden brown.","path":"/discover/animals/european-robin","category":"birds","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/european-robin-480.webp?v=a30632454c9c8d63","alt":"An European robin singing on a branch in Cr\u00E9teil, France","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:birds","tag:songbird","tag:garden-birds","tag:territorial","tag:red-breast","habitat:temperate-forest","continent:europe","continent:africa","continent:asia","subgroup:songbird","has:sound","has:journey","iucn:lc"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:european-stag-beetle","kind":"animal","title":"European stag beetle","summary":"The European stag beetle is one of Europe\u0027s biggest beetles. Males have giant jaws shaped like a stag\u0027s antlers, which they use to wrestle other males. Stag beetles spend most of their lives underground as larvae, eating rotting wood for about four years, and live only a few weeks as adults.","path":"/discover/animals/european-stag-beetle","category":"invertebrates","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/european-stag-beetle-480.webp?v=52c63f36fbe8cd68","alt":"Photo of European stag beetle","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:invertebrates","has:3d","tag:insect","tag:beetle","tag:dead-wood","tag:metamorphosis","habitat:temperate-forest","continent:europe","continent:asia","subgroup:insect"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:fennec-fox","kind":"animal","title":"Fennec fox","summary":"The fennec fox is the smallest member of the dog family. It lives in the Sahara and other deserts of North Africa, sleeps in cool burrows by day, and uses its enormous ears to hear insects moving under the sand at night.","path":"/discover/animals/fennec-fox","category":"mammals","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/fennec-fox-480.webp?v=9e336dfd151471bd","alt":"Photo of Fennec fox","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:mammals","tag:desert","tag:nocturnal","tag:big-ears","tag:superpower","habitat:desert","continent:africa","subgroup:dog-family","has:sound","iucn:lc"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:fire-salamander","kind":"animal","title":"Fire salamander","summary":"The fire salamander is a shiny black amphibian with bold yellow spots, found in cool, damp forests across much of Europe. Its colors warn predators that its skin makes bad-tasting toxins. Unlike most amphibians, the mother keeps her eggs inside her body and gives birth to live larvae in a stream.","path":"/discover/animals/fire-salamander","category":"amphibians","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/fire-salamander-480.webp?v=460e1a4d95108401","alt":"Photo of Fire salamander","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:amphibians","tag:salamander","tag:amphibian","tag:forest","tag:warning-colors","tag:vulnerable","habitat:temperate-forest","habitat:mountains","continent:europe","subgroup:salamander","iucn:vu"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:fishing-cat","kind":"animal","title":"Fishing cat","summary":"The fishing cat is a stocky, spotted wild cat of the wetlands of South and Southeast Asia. It is an excellent swimmer and diver, and fish are its main food. It lives in marshes, swamps, mangroves and along rivers, and it is Vulnerable because so many of these wetlands are being lost.","path":"/discover/animals/fishing-cat","category":"mammals","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/fishing-cat-480.webp?v=a0668f5dbf53b1e2","alt":"Photo of Fishing cat","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:mammals","tag:cats","tag:wetlands","tag:swimmer","tag:vulnerable","habitat:wetlands","continent:asia","subgroup:small-cat","iucn:vu"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:flatback-sea-turtle","kind":"animal","title":"Flatback sea turtle","summary":"The flatback sea turtle is named for its flat, smooth shell. It stays in shallow coastal seas around northern Australia, eats soft sea animals such as sea cucumbers and jellyfish, and nests only on Australian beaches, where its big hatchlings dash for the waves at night.","path":"/discover/animals/flatback-sea-turtle","category":"reptiles","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/flatback-sea-turtle-480.webp?v=d78d25bbf3132761","alt":"A flatback turtle hatchling going towards the sea","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:reptiles","has:3d","tag:sea-turtle","tag:australia","tag:hatchlings","tag:coasts","continent:oceania","subgroup:turtle","iucn:dd"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:frilled-neck-lizard","kind":"animal","title":"Frilled lizard","summary":"The frilled lizard is a dragon lizard of the warm woodlands of northern Australia and southern New Guinea. It spends most of its life in trees, and when it is cornered it pops open a huge frill around its neck, opens its bright mouth and hisses, a bluff that makes it look much bigger than it is.","path":"/discover/animals/frilled-neck-lizard","category":"reptiles","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/frilled-neck-lizard-480.webp?v=e7ad07f89b601975","alt":"Photo of Frilled lizard","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:reptiles","tag:lizard","tag:dragon-lizard","tag:tree-climber","tag:bluffer","tag:australia","habitat:grasslands","continent:oceania","subgroup:lizard","iucn:lc"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:garden-snail","kind":"animal","title":"Garden snail","summary":"The garden snail is a land snail with a brown-banded shell about 3 centimeters wide. It glides on a muscular foot over a carpet of slime, comes out mostly at night and after rain, and eats almost any garden plant. It first lived in western Europe and around the Mediterranean, but people have carried it around the world.","path":"/discover/animals/garden-snail","category":"invertebrates","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/garden-snail-480.webp?v=389100b12d29c45e","alt":"Common Garden Snail , Israel","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:invertebrates","tag:mollusc","tag:garden","tag:nocturnal","tag:shell","habitat:temperate-forest","habitat:grasslands","continent:europe","continent:asia","continent:africa","continent:north-america","continent:south-america","continent:oceania","subgroup:mollusc"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:gentoo-penguin","kind":"animal","title":"Gentoo penguin","summary":"The gentoo penguin is the penguin with the red-orange bill, orange feet and a white band across the top of its head. It lives on the Antarctic Peninsula and on islands around Antarctica, builds nests of stones, and usually lays two eggs. National Geographic says no other diving bird swims faster.","path":"/discover/animals/gentoo-penguin","category":"birds","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/gentoo-penguin-480.webp?v=0d7c0280d3288c3f","alt":"Photo of Gentoo penguin","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:birds","tag:penguin","tag:antarctic","tag:subantarctic-islands","tag:fast-swimmer","tag:stone-nests","habitat:antarctic","continent:antarctica","subgroup:penguin","has:journey","iucn:lc"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:gharial","kind":"animal","title":"Gharial","summary":"The gharial is a crocodile relative with a long, skinny snout full of sharp teeth, perfect for snapping up fish. It lives in a few big rivers of northern India and Nepal, and it is one of the most threatened crocodilians on Earth.","path":"/discover/animals/gharial","category":"reptiles","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/gharial-480.webp?v=ceaed11e81d2b16f","alt":"Gharial female, Chambal River, UP, India","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:reptiles","tag:crocodilian","tag:rivers","tag:fish-eater","tag:critically-endangered","habitat:wetlands","continent:asia","subgroup:crocodilian","iucn:cr"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:giant-african-millipede","kind":"animal","title":"Giant African millipede","summary":"The giant African millipede is one of the largest millipedes in the world, usually 16 to 28 centimeters long. It lives in the lowlands of East Africa, from Kenya to Mozambique, where it eats dead plants and helps turn them back into soil. Like all millipedes, it has two pairs of legs on most body rings and adds rings and legs as it grows.","path":"/discover/animals/giant-african-millipede","category":"invertebrates","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/giant-african-millipede-480.webp?v=b6bf5e2e42c0cba1","alt":"A giant African millipede walking on damp ground among fallen leaves on Zanzibar, Tanzania","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:invertebrates","tag:millipede","tag:myriapod","tag:decomposer","tag:giant","tag:africa","continent:africa","subgroup:myriapod","iucn:lc"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:giant-anteater","kind":"animal","title":"Giant anteater","summary":"The giant anteater is the biggest of the four kinds of anteater. It has no teeth at all, but its sticky tongue, about 60 centimeters long, flicks in and out up to 150 times a minute to slurp up ants and termites. Babies ride on their mothers\u0027 backs.","path":"/discover/animals/giant-anteater","category":"mammals","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/giant-anteater-480.webp?v=0b986b3153b4c141","alt":"Giant anteater in Parque Estadual Encontro das \u00C1guas, Brazil","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:mammals","tag:grasslands","tag:insect-eater","tag:vulnerable","tag:south-america","habitat:grasslands","habitat:amazon-rainforest","habitat:wetlands","continent:south-america","continent:north-america","subgroup:xenarthran-and-kin","iucn:vu"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:giant-clam","kind":"animal","title":"Giant clam","summary":"The giant clam, Tridacna gigas, is the largest clam alive. Its shell can grow more than a meter long. It sits on sunny coral reefs in the Indian and Pacific Oceans and gets most of its food from tiny algae living in its body. It is Critically Endangered.","path":"/discover/animals/giant-clam","category":"invertebrates","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/giant-clam-480.webp?v=41688faefc704cd1","alt":"Tridacna giant clam in Komodo National Park","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:invertebrates","tag:clam","tag:mollusc","tag:coral-reef","tag:critically-endangered","tag:giant","habitat:coral-reef","subgroup:mollusc","iucn:cr"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:giant-isopod","kind":"animal","title":"Giant isopod","summary":"The giant isopod is a deep-sea relative of the pill bugs and sowbugs you find under garden stones, but it can grow to about 50 centimeters long. It crawls over the dark sea floor of the western Atlantic, cleaning up dead fish, squid and other food that sinks from above.","path":"/discover/animals/giant-isopod","category":"invertebrates","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/giant-isopod-480.webp?v=48b4173f9dfe5473","alt":"A giant deep-sea isopod, Bathynomus giganteus, with an antipatharian whip coral, Stichopathes sp., in the foreground","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:invertebrates","has:3d","tag:crustacean","tag:deep-sea","tag:scavenger","tag:giant","habitat:deep-ocean","subgroup:crustacean"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:giant-oarfish","kind":"animal","title":"Giant oarfish","summary":"The giant oarfish is the longest bony fish in the world: it is usually about 3 meters long, and some have been reliably measured at 8 meters. Its silver, ribbon-shaped body has a red fin running all the way along its back. It lives in the open ocean, often hundreds of meters down, and drifts upright, head up, while it feeds on tiny krill.","path":"/discover/animals/giant-oarfish","category":"fish","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/giant-oarfish-480.webp?v=4db21483726def0e","alt":"A giant oarfish washed up on a sandy beach","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:fish","tag:deep-sea","tag:longest-bony-fish","tag:ribbon","tag:rarely-seen","habitat:deep-ocean","subgroup:ocean-fish","iucn:lc"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:giant-oceanic-manta-ray","kind":"animal","title":"Giant oceanic manta ray","summary":"The giant oceanic manta ray is the largest ray in the world, with wing-like fins that can stretch more than 6 meters from tip to tip. This gentle filter feeder funnels plankton into its wide mouth, and it has a single pup only every two to three years.","path":"/discover/animals/giant-oceanic-manta-ray","category":"fish","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/giant-oceanic-manta-ray-480.webp?v=edd5503b658da133","alt":"Front of a giant manta ray filter feeding","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:fish","tag:ray","tag:ocean","tag:filter-feeder","tag:endangered","habitat:coral-reef","habitat:deep-ocean","subgroup:ray","iucn:en"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:giant-otter","kind":"animal","title":"Giant otter","summary":"The giant otter is the longest otter in the world, up to about 1.8 meters from nose to tail. It lives in the rivers and lakes of South America in noisy family groups that hunt fish together by day. It is endangered, and people are working to protect it.","path":"/discover/animals/giant-otter","category":"mammals","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/giant-otter-480.webp?v=80227acea962cd2c","alt":"Photo of Giant otter","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:mammals","tag:south-america","tag:rivers","tag:family-life","tag:endangered","habitat:amazon-rainforest","habitat:wetlands","continent:south-america","subgroup:carnivore","iucn:en"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:giant-pacific-octopus","kind":"animal","title":"Giant Pacific octopus","summary":"The giant Pacific octopus is the largest octopus species in the world, living in cool waters of the North Pacific from Japan to Alaska and California. It hunts crabs and clams at night, changes color and skin texture at will, and can squeeze through a hole only a few centimeters wide.","path":"/discover/animals/giant-pacific-octopus","category":"invertebrates","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/giant-pacific-octopus-480.webp?v=27dc34d7e1a4bc68","alt":"Photo of Giant Pacific octopus","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:invertebrates","tag:mollusc","tag:ocean","tag:giant","tag:nocturnal","tag:superpower","habitat:deep-ocean","subgroup:mollusc","iucn:lc"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:giant-panda","kind":"animal","title":"Giant panda","summary":"The giant panda is a black-and-white bear that lives in misty mountain forests in China. About 99 percent of its food is bamboo, and it spends up to 16 hours a day eating. Pandas were once endangered, but protecting their forests has helped them, and they are now listed as Vulnerable.","path":"/discover/animals/giant-panda","category":"mammals","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/giant-panda-480.webp?v=7af1dca11be18072","alt":"Male Giant Panda \u0022Tian Tian\u0022 at the Smithsonian National Zoological Park in Washington, D.C","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:mammals","tag:bamboo","tag:mountains","tag:china","tag:vulnerable","tag:conservation-success","habitat:mountains","habitat:temperate-forest","continent:asia","subgroup:bear","has:sound","iucn:vu"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:giant-squid","kind":"animal","title":"Giant squid","summary":"The giant squid is one of the biggest animals without a backbone. Most of its length is two very long, stretchy feeding tentacles. It lives deep in oceans around the world, and it is so hard to find that the first photos of a living one in the wild were taken only in 2004.","path":"/discover/animals/giant-squid","category":"invertebrates","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/giant-squid-480.webp?v=b1abb6ae45a93492","alt":"A preserved giant squid in a glass display case at the Smithsonian\u0027s National Museum of Natural History, Washington, D.C.","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:invertebrates","tag:squid","tag:mollusc","tag:deep-sea","tag:giant","tag:mystery","habitat:deep-ocean","subgroup:mollusc","iucn:lc"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:giant-tube-worm","kind":"animal","title":"Giant tube worm","summary":"The giant tube worm lives more than a mile deep in the Pacific Ocean, beside hot springs in the seafloor called hydrothermal vents. It has no mouth and no stomach. Instead, billions of bacteria living inside its body make its food from chemicals in the vent water.","path":"/discover/animals/giant-tube-worm","category":"invertebrates","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/giant-tube-worm-480.webp?v=d9b71735479bc3b0","alt":"Tube worms at a Pacific hydrothermal vent are related to hydrocarbon seep worms","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:invertebrates","tag:worms","tag:deep-sea","tag:hydrothermal-vents","tag:superpower","habitat:deep-ocean","subgroup:worm"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:gila-monster","kind":"animal","title":"Gila monster","summary":"The Gila monster (say HEE-luh) is the largest lizard native to the United States. Its bumpy black skin is patterned with pink or orange, it spends most of its life hidden underground, and it is one of the very few lizards with venom.","path":"/discover/animals/gila-monster","category":"reptiles","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/gila-monster-480.webp?v=cf93d4a9b54c1ddf","alt":"Gila monster found in Southeastern Arizona","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:reptiles","tag:lizard","tag:desert","tag:venomous","tag:near-threatened","habitat:desert","continent:north-america","subgroup:lizard","iucn:nt"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:giraffe","kind":"animal","title":"Giraffe","summary":"Giraffes are the tallest animals on Earth. A long neck and a long dark tongue let them eat leaves from treetops that other animals cannot reach, and their patchy coats help them blend into the shade of the trees.","path":"/discover/animals/giraffe","category":"mammals","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/giraffe-480.webp?v=33d8b06cfb2a91a8","alt":"Photo of Giraffe","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:mammals","has:3d","tag:savanna","tag:tallest","tag:vulnerable","tag:superpower","habitat:african-savanna","continent:africa","subgroup:hoofed","has:sound","iucn:vu"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:glasswing-butterfly","kind":"animal","title":"Glasswing butterfly","summary":"The glasswing butterfly has wings you can see right through, framed with orange-brown edges. It lives from Mexico to Panama, and its caterpillars eat plants called Cestrum. Scientists study its clear wings because they hardly reflect any light, which could help people design better glass.","path":"/discover/animals/glasswing-butterfly","category":"invertebrates","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/glasswing-butterfly-480.webp?v=df7266603db1d816","alt":"Glasswing in the butterfly house of Maximilianpark Hamm, Germany","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:invertebrates","tag:butterfly","tag:insect","tag:metamorphosis","tag:transparent","tag:rainforest","continent:north-america","subgroup:insect"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:golden-eagle","kind":"animal","title":"Golden eagle","summary":"The golden eagle is one of the largest and fastest birds of prey in North America, and it lives across much of the Northern Hemisphere. It soars over mountains and open country on wings more than two meters wide and dives at tremendous speed to catch rabbits, hares and ground squirrels.","path":"/discover/animals/golden-eagle","category":"birds","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/golden-eagle-480.webp?v=5fea0b93d7921905","alt":"Golden eagle at the Aspen Center for Environmental Studies","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:birds","tag:bird-of-prey","tag:raptor","tag:mountains","tag:fast-flier","habitat:mountains","habitat:grasslands","continent:north-america","continent:europe","continent:asia","continent:africa","subgroup:raptor","has:sound","iucn:lc"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:golden-hamster","kind":"animal","title":"Golden hamster","summary":"Golden hamsters, also called Syrian hamsters, are popular pets all over the world. But in the wild they live only in a small area of farmland on the border of Syria and T\u00FCrkiye, and the IUCN lists them as Endangered.","path":"/discover/animals/golden-hamster","category":"mammals","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/golden-hamster-480.webp?v=d9ef57926c39115f","alt":"This photo shows a Golden Hamster , she is a great pet","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:mammals","has:3d","tag:rodents","tag:pets","tag:endangered","tag:farms","habitat:grasslands","continent:asia","subgroup:rodent-and-rabbit","has:domestic","iucn:en"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:golden-lion-tamarin","kind":"animal","title":"Golden lion tamarin","summary":"The golden lion tamarin is a small, bright orange monkey with a lion-like mane. It lives only in the Atlantic coastal forest of Brazil. In the 1970s only about 200 were left in the wild; thanks to decades of work, a census in 2022 and 2023 counted about 4,800.","path":"/discover/animals/golden-lion-tamarin","category":"mammals","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/golden-lion-tamarin-480.webp?v=aeadf356f02c5ee0","alt":"Photo of Golden lion tamarin","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:mammals","tag:monkey","tag:primate","tag:rainforest","tag:endangered","tag:conservation-success","continent:south-america","subgroup:primate","iucn:en"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:golden-poison-frog","kind":"animal","title":"Golden poison frog","summary":"The golden poison frog is a small frog from one small area of rainforest in western Colombia. It comes in bright yellow, orange or mint green, and its skin holds a very strong poison that comes from the insects it eats. Scientists call it the most toxic of all frogs. It is endangered because its forest is being cleared.","path":"/discover/animals/golden-poison-frog","category":"amphibians","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/golden-poison-frog-480.webp?v=8b64e4309f6b390a","alt":"Phyllobates terribilis, Dendrobatidae, Golden Poison Frog, Golden Dart Frog; Staatliches Museum f\u00FCr Naturkunde Karlsruhe, Germany","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:amphibians","has:3d","tag:poison-frog","tag:warning-colors","tag:rainforest","tag:endangered","continent:south-america","subgroup:frog","iucn:en"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:goldfish","kind":"animal","title":"Goldfish","summary":"The goldfish is a small member of the carp family that people in China tamed centuries ago, by the time of the Song dynasty (960\u20131279). Wild goldfish are greenish-brown, but careful breeding has made gold, white, black and spotted pets with fancy fins.","path":"/discover/animals/goldfish","category":"fish","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/goldfish-480.webp?v=8cfae6fea99b91e8","alt":"A goldfish kept in an aquarium in the town of Cromer, Norfolk","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:fish","has:3d","tag:pets","tag:freshwater","tag:domesticated","habitat:wetlands","continent:asia","continent:europe","continent:north-america","continent:south-america","continent:africa","continent:oceania","subgroup:freshwater-fish","has:domestic","iucn:lc"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:goliath-beetle","kind":"animal","title":"Goliath beetle","summary":"The Goliath beetle is one of the largest beetles on Earth, from about 5 to 11 centimeters long. It lives in the rainforests of central and eastern Africa, where the adults drink tree sap. Its huge grubs need protein-rich food to grow, and they may even hunt other small animals.","path":"/discover/animals/goliath-beetle","category":"invertebrates","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/goliath-beetle-480.webp?v=0ad3e97c6a6f429c","alt":"Goliathus goliatus, Cetoniidae, Goliath beetle; Staatliches Museum f\u00FCr Naturkunde Karlsruhe, Germany","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:invertebrates","tag:beetle","tag:insect","tag:metamorphosis","tag:giant","tag:rainforest","continent:africa","subgroup:insect"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:goliath-birdeater","kind":"animal","title":"Goliath birdeater","summary":"The Goliath birdeater is a giant tarantula from the rainforests of northern South America. With legs spreading about 28 centimeters and a weight of up to about 170 grams, it is described as the heaviest spider in the world. Despite its name, it eats mostly worms and insects, not birds.","path":"/discover/animals/goliath-birdeater","category":"invertebrates","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/goliath-birdeater-480.webp?v=73dd10bdb1b3cdcb","alt":"Photo of Goliath birdeater","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:invertebrates","tag:spider","tag:tarantula","tag:arachnid","tag:rainforest","tag:giant","habitat:amazon-rainforest","continent:south-america","subgroup:arachnid"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:goliath-frog","kind":"animal","title":"Goliath frog","summary":"The Goliath frog of Cameroon and Equatorial Guinea is the largest frog in the world: its body can be over 30 centimeters long, and it can weigh more than 3 kilograms. It lives along fast, clean rainforest rivers, and scientists recently discovered that these giants build and guard little ponds for their eggs. Hunting has made it endangered.","path":"/discover/animals/goliath-frog","category":"amphibians","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/goliath-frog-480.webp?v=aaf9ccef526e7961","alt":"Photo of Goliath frog","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:amphibians","tag:frog","tag:giant","tag:endangered","tag:rivers","tag:africa","habitat:wetlands","continent:africa","subgroup:frog","iucn:en"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:grey-parrot","kind":"animal","title":"Gray parrot","summary":"The gray parrot is a gray, red-tailed parrot from the rainforests of West and Central Africa. It lives in big, noisy flocks, eats fruit and seeds, and is famous for copying sounds. Trapping for the pet trade and forest loss have made it endangered.","path":"/discover/animals/grey-parrot","category":"birds","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/grey-parrot-480.webp?v=4b272bc2d91ba4af","alt":"A Congo African Grey Parrot in Herborn Bird Park, Germany","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:birds","tag:parrot","tag:rainforest","tag:endangered","tag:clever","tag:talking","continent:africa","subgroup:parrot","has:sound","iucn:en"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:gray-whale","kind":"animal","title":"Gray whale","summary":"The gray whale is a baleen whale of the North Pacific Ocean. It sucks up mud from the seafloor to catch tiny animals, and it makes one of the longest yearly journeys of any mammal: about 16,000 kilometers there and back between Arctic feeding seas and shallow lagoons in Mexico.","path":"/discover/animals/gray-whale","category":"mammals","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/gray-whale-480.webp?v=f20de4d19ffbefb9","alt":"Photo of Gray whale","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:mammals","tag:ocean","tag:migration","tag:baleen-whale","tag:coasts","habitat:arctic","subgroup:marine-mammal","has:journey","iucn:lc"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:gray-wolf","kind":"animal","title":"Gray wolf","summary":"The gray wolf is the largest member of the dog family and the wild ancestor of pet dogs. Wolves live in family packs that hunt big animals like elk and moose together, and their howls can carry about 10 kilometers. After being wiped out in many places, wolves are coming back in parts of North America and Europe.","path":"/discover/animals/gray-wolf","category":"mammals","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/gray-wolf-480.webp?v=2c383b59097e291a","alt":"Eurasian wolf at Polar Zoo in Bardu, Norway","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:mammals","has:3d","tag:dog-family","tag:pack","tag:howl","tag:least-concern","tag:comeback","habitat:temperate-forest","habitat:mountains","habitat:arctic","continent:north-america","continent:europe","continent:asia","subgroup:dog-family","has:sound","iucn:lc"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:great-blue-heron","kind":"animal","title":"Great blue heron","summary":"The great blue heron is the largest heron in North America. It wades slowly through marshes, rivers and ponds, or stands as still as a statue, then strikes like lightning with its dagger-shaped bill to catch fish, frogs and even small mammals.","path":"/discover/animals/great-blue-heron","category":"birds","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/great-blue-heron-480.webp?v=cefed2742a0c24a8","alt":"Great blue heron on a frozen pond during golden hour in Green-Wood Cemetery","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:birds","has:3d","tag:heron","tag:wading-bird","tag:wetlands","tag:fishing-bird","tag:north-america","habitat:wetlands","continent:north-america","continent:south-america","subgroup:waterbird","has:sound","has:journey","iucn:lc"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:great-egret","kind":"animal","title":"Great egret","summary":"The great egret is a tall, all-white heron that lives in wetlands on every continent except Antarctica. It wades slowly through shallow water, waits, then strikes like lightning to catch fish. Once nearly wiped out in the United States by hunters who wanted its lacy feathers, it made a remarkable comeback.","path":"/discover/animals/great-egret","category":"birds","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/great-egret-480.webp?v=08e848e9fbf07b2c","alt":"Great egret with a fish in Sydney Olympic Park, New South Wales, Australia","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:birds","has:3d","tag:herons","tag:wetlands","tag:worldwide","tag:comeback","habitat:wetlands","continent:africa","continent:asia","continent:europe","continent:north-america","continent:south-america","continent:oceania","subgroup:waterbird","has:sound","has:journey","iucn:lc"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:great-hammerhead-shark","kind":"animal","title":"Great hammerhead","summary":"The great hammerhead is the biggest of the hammerhead sharks. Its wide, flat head, called a cephalofoil, holds its eyes far apart and is packed with senses that help it find stingrays hiding in the sand of warm, shallow seas.","path":"/discover/animals/great-hammerhead-shark","category":"fish","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/great-hammerhead-shark-480.webp?v=a6ccaf7a933728c2","alt":"Great hammerhead at the Georgia Aquarium","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:fish","tag:shark","tag:ocean","tag:coral-reef","tag:critically-endangered","tag:superpower","habitat:coral-reef","subgroup:shark","iucn:cr"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:great-hornbill","kind":"animal","title":"Great hornbill","summary":"The great hornbill is a very large bird of Asia\u0027s forests, with a long tail, broad black-and-white wings and an enormous curved yellow bill topped by a helmet called a casque. It eats mostly figs, and the female seals herself inside a tree hole to raise her chick.","path":"/discover/animals/great-hornbill","category":"birds","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/great-hornbill-480.webp?v=20f24ec8959385e9","alt":"Photo of Great hornbill","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:birds","tag:rainforest","tag:vulnerable","tag:casque","tag:fruit-eater","tag:superpower","habitat:asian-rainforest","continent:asia","subgroup:tropical","has:sound","iucn:vu"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:great-horned-owl","kind":"animal","title":"Great horned owl","summary":"The great horned owl is a large, powerful owl with two long, earlike tufts of feathers on its head. It is one of the most common owls in North America and lives in almost any kind of semi-open place, from deserts and forests to city parks. It hunts mostly at night.","path":"/discover/animals/great-horned-owl","category":"birds","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/great-horned-owl-480.webp?v=0a033693d09bf672","alt":"Great Horned Owl standing under a Pink Ip\u00EA tree in Parque Estadual Encontro das \u00C1guas, Brazil","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:birds","tag:owl","tag:nocturnal","tag:forest","tag:ear-tufts","habitat:temperate-forest","habitat:desert","habitat:grasslands","continent:north-america","continent:south-america","subgroup:owl","has:sound","iucn:lc"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:great-white-shark","kind":"animal","title":"Great white shark","summary":"The great white shark is the largest of the mackerel sharks: a strong, torpedo-shaped fish with a gray back and a white belly. It hunts fish, seals and sea lions, and it is partly warm-blooded, which helps it stay active in cool water.","path":"/discover/animals/great-white-shark","category":"fish","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/great-white-shark-480.webp?v=ac6fc3ab05c30400","alt":"Great white shark , Isla Guadalupe, Mexico","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:fish","has:3d","tag:shark","tag:ocean","tag:apex-predator","tag:vulnerable","habitat:deep-ocean","subgroup:shark","iucn:vu"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:greater-bird-of-paradise","kind":"animal","title":"Greater bird-of-paradise","summary":"The greater bird-of-paradise is a rainforest bird of southern New Guinea and the Aru Islands. Males have a yellow head, a green throat, long tail wires and huge golden flank plumes, which they show off in group dances high in tall trees to win a female.","path":"/discover/animals/greater-bird-of-paradise","category":"birds","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/greater-bird-of-paradise-480.webp?v=9f4d11a521b130b5","alt":"Greater Bird of Paradise at Bali Bird Park","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:birds","tag:rainforest","tag:dancer","tag:plumes","tag:lek","continent:oceania","subgroup:tropical","iucn:lc"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:greater-blue-ringed-octopus","kind":"animal","title":"Greater blue-ringed octopus","summary":"The greater blue-ringed octopus is a small octopus that lives among rocks and reefs in the western Pacific. Most of the time it hides, but when it is bothered, about 60 blue rings flash on its skin. The bright rings are a warning, and they tell us this is an animal to watch, never to touch.","path":"/discover/animals/greater-blue-ringed-octopus","category":"invertebrates","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/greater-blue-ringed-octopus-480.webp?v=6c650f43017d1b78","alt":"Image of a Greater blue-ringed octopus","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:invertebrates","tag:octopus","tag:mollusc","tag:coral-reef","tag:warning-colors","tag:look-dont-touch","habitat:coral-reef","subgroup:mollusc","iucn:lc"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:greater-flamingo","kind":"animal","title":"Greater flamingo","summary":"The greater flamingo is the tallest and heaviest flamingo, standing up to about 1.45 meters tall. It lives in salty lagoons and lakes across Africa, southern Europe, the Middle East and South Asia. It feeds by holding its bent bill upside down in the water and filtering out tiny animals, and it gets its pink color from what it eats.","path":"/discover/animals/greater-flamingo","category":"birds","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/greater-flamingo-480.webp?v=de00e249ec90225a","alt":"Greater Flamingos Thyna","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:birds","tag:flamingo","tag:wetland","tag:filter-feeder","tag:africa","tag:europe","habitat:wetlands","continent:africa","continent:europe","continent:asia","subgroup:waterbird","has:sound","has:journey","iucn:lc"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:greater-roadrunner","kind":"animal","title":"Greater roadrunner","summary":"The greater roadrunner is a long-legged member of the cuckoo family that lives in deserts and scrubby country in the southwestern United States and Mexico. It flies only a little but runs fast, chasing lizards, insects and even snakes, and it has clever ways of coping with desert heat.","path":"/discover/animals/greater-roadrunner","category":"birds","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/greater-roadrunner-480.webp?v=a3b6decaa487d4f1","alt":"Greater roadrunner in the wild at Lake Havasu State Park, Lake Havasu City, Arizona USA on February 2, 2025","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:birds","tag:desert","tag:runner","tag:cuckoo","tag:superpower","habitat:desert","continent:north-america","subgroup:tropical","has:sound","iucn:lc"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:green-anaconda","kind":"animal","title":"Green anaconda","summary":"The green anaconda is one of the largest snakes on Earth. This olive-green, spotted boa lives in the rivers, swamps and flooded grasslands of northern South America, where it lies hidden in shallow water with only its eyes and nose showing.","path":"/discover/animals/green-anaconda","category":"reptiles","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/green-anaconda-480.webp?v=1bd5a225ce8a2a43","alt":"Photo of Green anaconda","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:reptiles","has:3d","tag:snake","tag:boa","tag:rainforest","tag:wetlands","tag:giant","habitat:amazon-rainforest","habitat:wetlands","continent:south-america","subgroup:snake","iucn:lc"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:green-iguana","kind":"animal","title":"Green iguana","summary":"The green iguana is a large lizard from the forests of Central and South America. It climbs high into trees to bask in the sun, eats leaves, flowers and fruit, and dives into rivers to get away from danger. It can grow to about 2 meters long, tail included.","path":"/discover/animals/green-iguana","category":"reptiles","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/green-iguana-480.webp?v=5bd22a894a48a93c","alt":"Photo of Green iguana","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:reptiles","has:3d","tag:lizard","tag:rainforest","tag:tree-climber","tag:swimmer","tag:invasive-elsewhere","habitat:amazon-rainforest","continent:north-america","continent:south-america","subgroup:lizard","iucn:lc"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:green-sea-turtle","kind":"animal","title":"Green sea turtle","summary":"The green sea turtle is the largest sea turtle with a hard shell. It lives in warm seas around the world and, unlike other sea turtles, grown-ups eat mostly seagrass and algae. Females swim hundreds or even thousands of kilometers to lay their eggs on the beaches where they hatched long ago.","path":"/discover/animals/green-sea-turtle","category":"reptiles","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/green-sea-turtle-480.webp?v=6574aa99284f9828","alt":"Green sea turtle , Moorea, French Polynesia","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:reptiles","tag:sea-turtle","tag:ocean","tag:migration","tag:comeback","habitat:coral-reef","subgroup:turtle","iucn:lc"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:greenland-shark","kind":"animal","title":"Greenland shark","summary":"The Greenland shark is a huge, slow-moving shark of the cold North Atlantic and Arctic Ocean. It grows very slowly in the cold, and in 2016 scientists used the lenses of its eyes to estimate that it can live for at least 272 years, longer than any other animal with a backbone that we know of.","path":"/discover/animals/greenland-shark","category":"fish","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/greenland-shark-480.webp?v=40b18d0fcd6151b3","alt":"Photo of Greenland shark","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:fish","tag:shark","tag:arctic","tag:deep-sea","tag:long-lived","tag:vulnerable","habitat:deep-ocean","habitat:arctic","subgroup:shark","iucn:vu"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:grevys-zebra","kind":"animal","title":"Gr\u00E9vy\u0027s zebra","summary":"Gr\u00E9vy\u0027s zebra is the largest zebra, with narrow stripes, a white belly and big, round ears. It lives only in the dry grasslands and scrub of northern Kenya and Ethiopia, and it is endangered: only a few thousand are left in the wild.","path":"/discover/animals/grevys-zebra","category":"mammals","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/grevys-zebra-480.webp?v=fc6a9cabfb3fd0f0","alt":"Equus grevyi Oustalet, 1882, Gr\u00E9vy\u0027s zebra; R\u00E9serve Africaine de Sigean, Sigean, France","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:mammals","tag:stripes","tag:endangered","tag:drylands","tag:kenya","habitat:african-savanna","habitat:desert","continent:africa","subgroup:hoofed","iucn:en"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:grey-crowned-crane","kind":"animal","title":"Grey crowned crane","summary":"The grey crowned crane is a gray African crane with a spiky crown of golden feathers, white and red cheeks and a red throat pouch. It is one of only two cranes that can perch in trees. It is the national bird of Uganda, and it is Endangered because its wetlands are disappearing.","path":"/discover/animals/grey-crowned-crane","category":"birds","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/grey-crowned-crane-480.webp?v=29f051f27f2c0d10","alt":"Grey crowned crane , Nr Lake Bunyonyi, Uganda","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:birds","tag:crane","tag:wetlands","tag:grasslands","tag:endangered","tag:africa","tag:national-bird","habitat:wetlands","habitat:african-savanna","habitat:grasslands","continent:africa","subgroup:waterbird","iucn:en"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:grooved-brain-coral","kind":"animal","title":"Grooved brain coral","summary":"The grooved brain coral is a reef-building coral of the Caribbean, the Bahamas, southern Florida and Bermuda. Its tiny polyps live in long, winding valleys, which give the dome-shaped colony the look of a brain. A coral disease that spread from Florida since 2014 has hit it hard, and it is now critically endangered.","path":"/discover/animals/grooved-brain-coral","category":"invertebrates","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/grooved-brain-coral-480.webp?v=4cca4e13c6792d0e","alt":"Grooved Brain Coral in Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:invertebrates","tag:cnidarian","tag:coral","tag:coral-reef","tag:critically-endangered","habitat:coral-reef","subgroup:cnidarian","iucn:cr"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:ground-pangolin","kind":"animal","title":"Ground pangolin","summary":"The ground pangolin is a shy African mammal covered in overlapping scales. It sniffs out ants and termites at night and licks them up with a long, sticky tongue. Pangolins are in trouble because people take them illegally, and many people are working to protect them.","path":"/discover/animals/ground-pangolin","category":"mammals","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/ground-pangolin-480.webp?v=765cd194b9fa4588","alt":"Photo of Ground pangolin","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:mammals","tag:scales","tag:savanna","tag:vulnerable","tag:nocturnal","habitat:african-savanna","habitat:grasslands","continent:africa","subgroup:xenarthran-and-kin","iucn:vu"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:guinea-pig","kind":"animal","title":"Guinea pig","summary":"The guinea pig is not a pig and does not come from Guinea. It is a rodent, first tamed thousands of years ago by people in the Andes mountains of South America. Today it is a popular pet around the world, and in parts of Peru, Ecuador and Bolivia it is still raised for food.","path":"/discover/animals/guinea-pig","category":"mammals","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/guinea-pig-480.webp?v=327c82a0ce08aa8e","alt":"Photo of Guinea pig","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:mammals","tag:pet","tag:domesticated","tag:rodent","tag:andes","habitat:grasslands","continent:south-america","continent:europe","continent:north-america","continent:asia","continent:africa","continent:oceania","subgroup:rodent-and-rabbit","has:sound","has:domestic"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:guppy","kind":"animal","title":"Guppy","summary":"The guppy is a small freshwater fish from northeastern South America and nearby Caribbean islands such as Trinidad. Males are smaller and brightly colored; females are larger and plainer. Guppies give birth to live young, and they are one of the most popular aquarium fish in the world.","path":"/discover/animals/guppy","category":"fish","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/guppy-480.webp?v=e3d3696548a596cc","alt":"Millionfish or Guppy , Poecilia reticulata, Family: Poeciliidae","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:fish","has:3d","tag:freshwater","tag:pet","tag:live-bearer","tag:evolution","tag:introduced-species","habitat:wetlands","continent:south-america","subgroup:freshwater-fish","iucn:lc"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:harbor-porpoise","kind":"animal","title":"Harbor porpoise","summary":"The harbor porpoise is a small relative of whales and dolphins. It lives in cool coastal waters of the Northern Hemisphere, in bays, harbors and fjords. It is shy, usually swims alone or in tiny groups, and rolls quietly to the surface to breathe.","path":"/discover/animals/harbor-porpoise","category":"mammals","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/harbor-porpoise-480.webp?v=ed134cee31c0e5aa","alt":"Harbour porpoise Michael above water in February 2012, Ecomare","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:mammals","has:3d","tag:porpoises","tag:ocean","tag:coasts","tag:shy","subgroup:marine-mammal","iucn:lc"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:harbor-seal","kind":"animal","title":"Harbor seal","summary":"The harbor seal lives along the northern coasts of North America, Europe and Asia, and it is one of the most common marine mammals on the east and west coasts of the United States. It has spotted fur, a dog-like face and no ear flaps, and it wriggles like a caterpillar on land. Its pups can swim within minutes of being born.","path":"/discover/animals/harbor-seal","category":"mammals","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/harbor-seal-480.webp?v=5b3f012362b2fa8f","alt":"Common Seal , off Lismore, Argyll","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:mammals","has:3d","tag:seal","tag:coasts","tag:pinniped","tag:northern-oceans","habitat:arctic","subgroup:marine-mammal","has:sound","iucn:lc"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:harpy-eagle","kind":"animal","title":"Harpy eagle","summary":"Harpy eagles are among the largest and most powerful eagles in the world. They live in the lowland rainforests of Central and South America, where they hunt sloths and monkeys in the treetops. Forest loss and shooting have made them rare.","path":"/discover/animals/harpy-eagle","category":"birds","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/harpy-eagle-480.webp?v=7e2e68dbb0a11ffb","alt":"Harpy Eagle -- Camino del Oleoducto, Parque Nacional Soberania, Panama","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:birds","has:3d","tag:raptors","tag:rainforest","tag:vulnerable","tag:superpower","habitat:amazon-rainforest","continent:north-america","continent:south-america","subgroup:raptor","iucn:vu"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:hawksbill-sea-turtle","kind":"animal","title":"Hawksbill sea turtle","summary":"The hawksbill sea turtle lives in warm seas around the world, mostly near coral reefs. Its pointed, hawk-like beak reaches into cracks in the reef to find sponges, its favorite food. Its beautiful patterned shell once made it a target for hunters, and today it is critically endangered.","path":"/discover/animals/hawksbill-sea-turtle","category":"reptiles","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/hawksbill-sea-turtle-480.webp?v=5399cea2f20de2ac","alt":"Hawksbill sea turtle , Ras Muhammad National Park, Egypt","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:reptiles","has:3d","tag:sea-turtle","tag:coral-reef","tag:critically-endangered","tag:sponge-eater","habitat:coral-reef","subgroup:turtle","iucn:cr"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:hercules-beetle","kind":"animal","title":"Hercules beetle","summary":"The Hercules beetle is one of the largest beetles in the world: the biggest males can reach 18 centimeters, horns included. It lives in rainforests from southern Mexico to Bolivia and on a few Caribbean islands. Its huge grubs spend more than a year eating rotting wood before they turn into beetles.","path":"/discover/animals/hercules-beetle","category":"invertebrates","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/hercules-beetle-480.webp?v=20047290620ad786","alt":"Photo of Hercules beetle","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:invertebrates","tag:beetle","tag:insect","tag:metamorphosis","tag:giant","tag:rainforest","tag:horns","habitat:amazon-rainforest","continent:north-america","continent:south-america","subgroup:insect"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:hoatzin","kind":"animal","title":"Hoatzin","summary":"The hoatzin is a strange and wonderful bird of the Amazon and Orinoco rivers. It eats mostly leaves and digests them slowly with the help of bacteria, a bit like a cow. Its chicks have claws on their wings that help them climb back up through the branches.","path":"/discover/animals/hoatzin","category":"birds","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/hoatzin-480.webp?v=55a75776182040b6","alt":"Hoatzin photographed during a four day trip to La Selva Lodge on the Napo River in the Amazon jungle of E","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:birds","tag:leaf-eater","tag:amazon","tag:wing-claws","tag:rivers","habitat:amazon-rainforest","habitat:wetlands","continent:south-america","subgroup:waterbird","has:sound","iucn:lc"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:honey-badger","kind":"animal","title":"Honey badger","summary":"The honey badger, or ratel, is a stocky member of the weasel family that lives across Africa, the Middle East and India. Its gray or white back and black underside make it easy to spot. It digs with huge front claws, travels far to find food, and breaks into bees\u0027 nests for honey and bee grubs.","path":"/discover/animals/honey-badger","category":"mammals","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/honey-badger-480.webp?v=6b7fc54c7fa0dcec","alt":"Photo of Honey badger","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:mammals","tag:weasel-family","tag:digger","tag:nocturnal","tag:least-concern","habitat:african-savanna","habitat:desert","continent:africa","continent:asia","subgroup:carnivore","iucn:lc"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:horse","kind":"animal","title":"Horse","summary":"Horses are grazing animals built for running, with long legs that end in a single hard hoof. People tamed wild horses about 6,000 years ago on the grasslands of Europe and Asia, and horses changed history: they pulled plows, carried riders and connected faraway places.","path":"/discover/animals/horse","category":"mammals","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/horse-480.webp?v=88857c381aa22ffb","alt":"Horses on Bianditz mountain, in Navarre, Spain","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:mammals","has:3d","tag:farm","tag:domesticated","tag:runner","tag:worldwide","habitat:grasslands","continent:africa","continent:asia","continent:europe","continent:north-america","continent:south-america","continent:oceania","subgroup:hoofed","has:domestic"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:house-mouse","kind":"animal","title":"House mouse","summary":"House mice are small rodents that first lived in Europe, Asia and North Africa. By living alongside people, they have spread to every continent except Antarctica. They are quick runners and can have babies when only a few weeks old.","path":"/discover/animals/house-mouse","category":"mammals","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/house-mouse-480.webp?v=d5896155a7fa5921","alt":"Photo of House mouse","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:mammals","has:3d","tag:rodents","tag:towns-and-gardens","tag:farms","tag:worldwide","habitat:grasslands","continent:europe","continent:asia","continent:africa","continent:north-america","continent:south-america","continent:oceania","subgroup:rodent-and-rabbit","iucn:lc"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:house-sparrow","kind":"animal","title":"House sparrow","summary":"The house sparrow is one of the most widespread songbirds in the world. It is native to Europe, Asia and North Africa, but people released it in many other places, and now it lives in towns and farms almost everywhere people do. Its numbers have fallen sharply in some places, including Britain and North America.","path":"/discover/animals/house-sparrow","category":"birds","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/house-sparrow-480.webp?v=09908aedbca567e7","alt":"Male house sparrow in Prospect Park","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:birds","tag:sparrow","tag:city-birds","tag:introduced","tag:declining","continent:africa","continent:asia","continent:europe","continent:north-america","continent:south-america","continent:oceania","subgroup:songbird","has:sound","iucn:lc"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:housefly","kind":"animal","title":"Housefly","summary":"The housefly is a small gray fly with two big red eyes and one pair of see-through wings. It cannot chew, so it soaks up liquid food with a mouth like a sponge. Houseflies started out in central Asia and now live almost everywhere that people live. Their eggs hatch in less than a day, and the young grow up fast.","path":"/discover/animals/housefly","category":"invertebrates","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/housefly-480.webp?v=49a3daa7f3a03929","alt":"A house fly with big red eyes, a striped thorax and clear wings, close up on a white background","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:invertebrates","has:3d","tag:insect","tag:fly","tag:metamorphosis","tag:scavenger","tag:worldwide","continent:asia","continent:africa","continent:europe","continent:north-america","continent:south-america","continent:oceania","subgroup:insect"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:humpback-anglerfish","kind":"animal","title":"Humpback anglerfish","summary":"The humpback anglerfish is a small, round, black fish of the deep, dark ocean. A long spine on the female\u0027s head ends in a glowing lure, lit by tiny bacteria, which draws prey close enough to catch in her big, toothy mouth. The males are tiny, only about 3 centimeters long, and their job is to find a female.","path":"/discover/animals/humpback-anglerfish","category":"fish","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/humpback-anglerfish-480.webp?v=5596e875bd1c2671","alt":"Photo of Humpback anglerfish","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:fish","tag:deep-sea","tag:bioluminescence","tag:lure","tag:tiny-males","habitat:deep-ocean","subgroup:deep-sea-fish","iucn:lc"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:humpback-whale","kind":"animal","title":"Humpback whale","summary":"The humpback whale is a baleen whale famous for leaping out of the water, slapping its giant flippers and singing long, complex songs. It lives in every ocean and makes one of the longest journeys of any mammal, between cold feeding waters and warm waters where calves are born. Once hunted almost to extinction, it is now recovering.","path":"/discover/animals/humpback-whale","category":"mammals","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/humpback-whale-480.webp?v=999d09a314a952f9","alt":"Humpback whale calf off Moorea, French Polynesia","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:mammals","has:3d","tag:ocean","tag:migration","tag:song","tag:baleen-whale","tag:conservation-success","habitat:deep-ocean","subgroup:marine-mammal","has:sound","has:journey","iucn:lc"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:humphead-wrasse","kind":"animal","title":"Humphead wrasse","summary":"The humphead wrasse is the biggest fish in the wrasse family, up to about 2.3 meters long. Adults have thick lips, a forehead hump and wavy lines on the face. They eat shellfish, sea urchins and even toxic crown-of-thorns starfish, and many change from female to male. Too many have been caught, so it is endangered.","path":"/discover/animals/humphead-wrasse","category":"fish","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/humphead-wrasse-480.webp?v=18d038b3db059f4d","alt":"Photo of Humphead wrasse","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:fish","tag:coral-reef","tag:giant","tag:changes-sex","tag:endangered","habitat:coral-reef","subgroup:reef-fish","iucn:en"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:hyacinth-macaw","kind":"animal","title":"Hyacinth macaw","summary":"The hyacinth macaw is the largest parrot in the world, about a meter long and deep blue from head to tail. It lives in the open woodlands, palm groves and wetlands of central South America, especially Brazil\u0027s Pantanal, and cracks very hard palm nuts with its enormous beak.","path":"/discover/animals/hyacinth-macaw","category":"birds","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/hyacinth-macaw-480.webp?v=0473f208251cca1a","alt":"Hyacinth macaw couple under a Pink Ip\u00EA tree in Parque Estadual Encontro das \u00C1guas, Brazil","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:birds","tag:parrot","tag:pantanal","tag:vulnerable","tag:pet-trade","habitat:wetlands","habitat:grasslands","continent:south-america","subgroup:parrot","iucn:vu"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:immortal-jellyfish","kind":"animal","title":"Immortal jellyfish","summary":"The immortal jellyfish is a tiny sea jelly only about 3 millimeters across. Most jellyfish die after they grow up and make babies, but this one can do something amazing: a starving adult can turn back into a polyp, the young stage, and grow up all over again. It can still be eaten or get sick, so it does not really live forever.","path":"/discover/animals/immortal-jellyfish","category":"invertebrates","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/immortal-jellyfish-480.webp?v=4d086e99ce8bbe2d","alt":"Photo of Immortal jellyfish","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:invertebrates","tag:cnidarian","tag:jellyfish","tag:ocean","tag:superpower","subgroup:cnidarian"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:impala","kind":"animal","title":"Impala","summary":"The impala is a slender, reddish-brown antelope of the savannas of eastern and southern Africa. It can both graze on grass and browse on leaves, lives in herds, and when startled the whole herd bursts into spectacular leaps. Only males have the long, curving horns.","path":"/discover/animals/impala","category":"mammals","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/impala-480.webp?v=368bcd6a12e16689","alt":"Impala - Barcelona","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:mammals","tag:savanna","tag:antelope","tag:leaping","tag:herds","habitat:african-savanna","continent:africa","subgroup:hoofed","has:sound","iucn:lc"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:indian-cobra","kind":"animal","title":"Indian cobra","summary":"The Indian cobra, or spectacled cobra, lives across South Asia, from Pakistan to Sri Lanka. It raises its head and spreads a hood marked with a pattern like a pair of glasses, it eats lots of rats and mice, and it is venomous, so it is an animal to admire from far away.","path":"/discover/animals/indian-cobra","category":"reptiles","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/indian-cobra-480.webp?v=643c7019c5999dae","alt":"Indian Cobra Naja naja also known as the spectacled cobra, Asian cobra, or Binocellate Cobra","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:reptiles","tag:snake","tag:venomous","tag:hood","tag:south-asia","tag:rat-catcher","habitat:grasslands","habitat:asian-rainforest","continent:asia","subgroup:snake","iucn:lc"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:indian-peafowl","kind":"animal","title":"Indian peafowl","summary":"The Indian peafowl is a large bird of the pheasant family from South Asia. Males, called peacocks, have a bright blue neck and a long train of shimmering feathers decorated with eyespots, which they spread into a giant fan to impress females, called peahens. It is the national bird of India.","path":"/discover/animals/indian-peafowl","category":"birds","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/indian-peafowl-480.webp?v=09ec24b89b164409","alt":"Indian peafowl in Jim Corbett National Park, India","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:birds","has:3d","tag:peacock","tag:display","tag:south-asia","tag:national-bird","continent:asia","subgroup:gamebird","has:sound","iucn:lc"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:indian-rhinoceros","kind":"animal","title":"Indian rhinoceros","summary":"The Indian rhinoceros, also called the greater one-horned rhino, has a single horn and deep folds in its skin that make it look armor-plated. It grazes on tall grass by rivers in India and Nepal, swims well, and has made a remarkable comeback from about 200 animals to more than 4,000.","path":"/discover/animals/indian-rhinoceros","category":"mammals","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/indian-rhinoceros-480.webp?v=1b5afe843d583b9b","alt":"Indian rhinoceros , near Narayani River, Chitwan Community Forest buffer zone, Nepal","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:mammals","has:3d","tag:grasslands","tag:horns","tag:vulnerable","tag:comeback","habitat:grasslands","habitat:wetlands","continent:asia","subgroup:hoofed","iucn:vu"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:sailfish","kind":"animal","title":"Indo-Pacific sailfish","summary":"The sailfish is a long, sleek ocean fish with a tall, sail-like fin on its back and a long, spear-shaped upper jaw called a bill. It hunts schools of small fish in warm seas, folding its sail away to speed up and raising it to make sharp turns.","path":"/discover/animals/sailfish","category":"fish","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/sailfish-480.webp?v=39c7bf6ed8000ca2","alt":"Photo of Indo-Pacific sailfish","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:fish","has:3d","tag:ocean","tag:fast-swimmer","tag:billfish","tag:color-change","tag:vulnerable","habitat:deep-ocean","subgroup:ocean-fish","iucn:vu"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:jaguar","kind":"animal","title":"Jaguar","summary":"The jaguar is the largest cat in North and South America. It lives near rivers and swamps, swims well, and has such a powerful bite that it can crack a turtle\u0027s shell. Most jaguars live in the Amazon rainforest.","path":"/discover/animals/jaguar","category":"mammals","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/jaguar-480.webp?v=3b4ee523ca69bb34","alt":"Photo of Jaguar","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:mammals","has:3d","tag:big-cat","tag:rainforest","tag:swimmer","tag:near-threatened","tag:superpower","habitat:amazon-rainforest","habitat:wetlands","continent:south-america","continent:north-america","subgroup:big-cat","iucn:nt"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:japanese-giant-salamander","kind":"animal","title":"Japanese giant salamander","summary":"The Japanese giant salamander is one of the biggest salamanders in the world, growing up to 1.5 meters long. It lives its whole life in cool, clear rivers in Japan, breathes mostly through its wrinkly skin, and the fathers guard the eggs and babies for months.","path":"/discover/animals/japanese-giant-salamander","category":"amphibians","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/japanese-giant-salamander-480.webp?v=6a9bf7a1b92010ea","alt":"Photo of Japanese giant salamander","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:amphibians","tag:salamander","tag:amphibian","tag:river","tag:giant","tag:vulnerable","habitat:mountains","habitat:temperate-forest","continent:asia","subgroup:salamander","iucn:vu"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:japanese-macaque","kind":"animal","title":"Japanese macaque","summary":"The Japanese macaque, or snow monkey, lives farther north than any other monkey or ape except people. Thick fur keeps it warm through snowy winters, and some troops have learned to sit in warm hot springs.","path":"/discover/animals/japanese-macaque","category":"mammals","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/japanese-macaque-480.webp?v=a71f270253774566","alt":"Photo of Japanese macaque","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:mammals","tag:monkey","tag:primate","tag:snow","tag:mountains","habitat:mountains","habitat:temperate-forest","continent:asia","subgroup:primate","has:sound","iucn:lc"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:japanese-spider-crab","kind":"animal","title":"Japanese spider crab","summary":"The Japanese spider crab is a gentle giant of the sea floor off Japan. Its body is only about the size of a large pizza, but its legs can stretch almost 4 meters from claw tip to claw tip, more than any other crab. It crawls slowly along the bottom, eating dead animals and plants.","path":"/discover/animals/japanese-spider-crab","category":"invertebrates","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/japanese-spider-crab-480.webp?v=3b4eede80f8a3609","alt":"Spider crab at the Kaiyukan Aquarium in Osaka, Japan","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:invertebrates","has:3d","tag:crustacean","tag:crab","tag:deep-sea","tag:giant","habitat:deep-ocean","subgroup:crustacean"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:kakapo","kind":"animal","title":"K\u0101k\u0101p\u014D","summary":"The k\u0101k\u0101p\u014D is a large, moss-green parrot from New Zealand with an owl-like face. It cannot fly, it is active at night, and it eats only plants. It nearly died out, but careful work by New Zealand\u0027s Department of Conservation has grown the population to 325 birds (September 2026).","path":"/discover/animals/kakapo","category":"birds","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/kakapo-480.webp?v=c3e02f009886e6f8","alt":"Sirocco, a green k\u0101k\u0101p\u014D, among plants on Maud Island, New Zealand","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:birds","tag:parrot","tag:flightless","tag:nocturnal","tag:new-zealand","tag:critically-endangered","habitat:temperate-forest","continent:oceania","subgroup:flightless","has:sound","iucn:cr"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:kea","kind":"animal","title":"Kea","summary":"The kea is a big, olive-green parrot found only on the South Island of New Zealand. It lives in mountain forests and alpine meadows, digs for food with its long, curved beak, nests on the ground and is famous for being curious, playful and clever.","path":"/discover/animals/kea","category":"birds","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/kea-480.webp?v=272fa8f1cf174f5d","alt":"Nestor notabilis, A Kea flying in its natural environment on \u0022The Remarkables\u0022 near Queenstown, New Zealand","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:birds","tag:parrot","tag:mountains","tag:endangered","tag:clever","tag:new-zealand","habitat:mountains","habitat:temperate-forest","continent:oceania","subgroup:parrot","has:sound","iucn:en"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:keel-billed-toucan","kind":"animal","title":"Keel-billed toucan","summary":"The keel-billed toucan lives in the forests of southern Mexico, Central America and northern South America. Its huge, colorful bill can be a third of its whole length, yet it is light, and the bird uses it to pick fruit from thin branches.","path":"/discover/animals/keel-billed-toucan","category":"birds","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/keel-billed-toucan-480.webp?v=bf2f050f76090c77","alt":"Keel-billed toucan on foxtail palm Cayo district, Belize","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:birds","has:3d","tag:rainforest","tag:colorful-bill","tag:fruit-eater","tag:tree-hole-nester","continent:north-america","continent:south-america","subgroup:tropical","has:sound","iucn:nt"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:king-cobra","kind":"animal","title":"King cobra","summary":"The king cobra is the largest venomous snake in the world, growing to more than 5 meters long. It lives in forests and near streams in South and Southeast Asia, eats mainly other snakes, and the mother builds a nest of leaves and guards her eggs.","path":"/discover/animals/king-cobra","category":"reptiles","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/king-cobra-480.webp?v=ce737501b43559bb","alt":"King Cobra in Indonesia","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:reptiles","tag:snake","tag:venomous","tag:rainforest","tag:record-breaker","tag:vulnerable","habitat:asian-rainforest","continent:asia","subgroup:snake","iucn:vu"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:king-penguin","kind":"animal","title":"King penguin","summary":"The king penguin is the second-largest penguin in the world. It lives in huge, noisy colonies on windy islands in the Southern Ocean and dives deep to catch lantern fish. Its babies grow a thick coat of brown fluff and take more than a year to raise.","path":"/discover/animals/king-penguin","category":"birds","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/king-penguin-480.webp?v=f295d8a1e71bd939","alt":"Photo of King penguin","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:birds","has:3d","tag:penguin","tag:subantarctic","tag:islands","tag:colony","tag:deep-diver","habitat:antarctic","subgroup:penguin","has:sound","has:journey","iucn:lc"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:koala","kind":"animal","title":"Koala","summary":"The koala is a tree-living marsupial from eastern Australia. It eats almost nothing but eucalyptus leaves, sleeps up to 20 hours a day to save energy, and carries its jellybean-sized baby in a pouch that opens toward its back legs.","path":"/discover/animals/koala","category":"mammals","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/koala-480.webp?v=f4710793416649cd","alt":"A koala climbing up a tree, Great Otway National Park, Victoria, Australia","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:mammals","tag:marsupial","tag:australia","tag:eucalyptus","tag:vulnerable","tag:tree-dweller","habitat:temperate-forest","continent:oceania","subgroup:marsupial","iucn:vu"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:komodo-dragon","kind":"animal","title":"Komodo dragon","summary":"The Komodo dragon is the largest lizard alive today. It lives only on a handful of Indonesian islands, where it tracks food with its flicking yellow tongue, rests in burrows in the heat and spends its first years safely up in the trees.","path":"/discover/animals/komodo-dragon","category":"reptiles","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/komodo-dragon-480.webp?v=102525ccd1e9237b","alt":"Photo of Komodo dragon","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:reptiles","has:3d","tag:lizard","tag:monitor-lizard","tag:islands","tag:record-breaker","tag:endangered","habitat:grasslands","continent:asia","subgroup:lizard","iucn:en"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:large-flying-fox","kind":"animal","title":"Large flying fox","summary":"The large flying fox is a giant fruit bat of Southeast Asia, with wings about 1.5 meters across. It flies out at night to eat fruit, flowers and nectar, spreading seeds and pollinating trees. Because of hunting and forest loss, it is now Endangered.","path":"/discover/animals/large-flying-fox","category":"mammals","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/large-flying-fox-480.webp?v=3e0f8181f6a7db91","alt":"Large Flying-fox in Indonesia","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:mammals","tag:bats","tag:fruit-bats","tag:endangered","tag:pollinators","habitat:asian-rainforest","continent:asia","subgroup:bat","has:journey","iucn:en"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:laughing-kookaburra","kind":"animal","title":"Laughing kookaburra","summary":"The laughing kookaburra is one of the larger members of the kingfisher family. It lives in the woodlands of eastern Australia, pounces on insects, worms and small animals, and lives in family groups. Its famous \u0027laugh\u0027 is really a territorial call that warns other birds to stay away.","path":"/discover/animals/laughing-kookaburra","category":"birds","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/laughing-kookaburra-480.webp?v=344524dd9aa1b694","alt":"Laughing Kookaburra perched on a Silver Wattle , Waterworks Reserve, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:birds","tag:kingfisher","tag:australia","tag:laughing-call","tag:family-helpers","habitat:temperate-forest","continent:oceania","subgroup:tropical","has:sound","iucn:lc"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:leafcutter-ant","kind":"animal","title":"Leafcutter ant","summary":"Leafcutter ants are farmers. Workers cut pieces of leaves, carry them home along busy trails and use them to grow a fungus garden underground, and the fungus is their food. This page is about one well-known kind, Atta cephalotes, which lives in Central and South America in giant nests of hundreds of thousands to millions of ants.","path":"/discover/animals/leafcutter-ant","category":"invertebrates","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/leafcutter-ant-480.webp?v=932f6a2484588c7c","alt":"Photo of Leafcutter ant","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:invertebrates","tag:ant","tag:insect","tag:farmer","tag:colony","tag:rainforest","tag:fungus","habitat:amazon-rainforest","continent:north-america","continent:south-america","subgroup:insect"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:leafy-seadragon","kind":"animal","title":"Leafy seadragon","summary":"The leafy seadragon is a relative of the seahorse covered in leaf-shaped flaps of skin. It drifts among seaweed so well that it almost disappears. It sucks up tiny shrimp through its long snout, and the father carries the eggs on his tail.","path":"/discover/animals/leafy-seadragon","category":"fish","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/leafy-seadragon-480.webp?v=16972d5c0049243f","alt":"A photograph of a Leafy seadragon","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:fish","has:3d","tag:camouflage","tag:australia","tag:ocean","tag:fathers-raise-young","tag:seahorse-family","continent:oceania","subgroup:reef-fish","iucn:lc"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:leatherback-sea-turtle","kind":"animal","title":"Leatherback sea turtle","summary":"The leatherback sea turtle is the largest turtle on Earth. Instead of a hard shell it has tough, rubbery skin over a layer of tiny bones. It eats jellyfish, dives deeper than any other turtle and swims thousands of kilometers between feeding waters and the beaches where it lays its eggs.","path":"/discover/animals/leatherback-sea-turtle","category":"reptiles","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/leatherback-sea-turtle-480.webp?v=81d0f90a1a739d29","alt":"Photo of Leatherback sea turtle","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:reptiles","tag:sea-turtle","tag:ocean","tag:migration","tag:record-breaker","tag:vulnerable","habitat:deep-ocean","subgroup:turtle","has:sound","iucn:vu"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:leopard","kind":"animal","title":"Leopard","summary":"The leopard is a strong, spotted big cat and the best climber of them all. It can carry its food high up into a tree, away from lions and hyenas. Leopards live in more kinds of places than any other big cat, from deserts to rainforests, across Africa and Asia.","path":"/discover/animals/leopard","category":"mammals","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/leopard-480.webp?v=95fc1e308c74daf8","alt":"Leopard , Kruger National Park, South Africa","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:mammals","has:3d","tag:big-five","tag:big-cat","tag:climber","tag:spots","tag:vulnerable","habitat:african-savanna","habitat:asian-rainforest","habitat:mountains","continent:africa","continent:asia","subgroup:big-cat","iucn:vu"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:leopard-gecko","kind":"animal","title":"Leopard gecko","summary":"The leopard gecko is a spotted lizard from the rocky deserts and dry grasslands of Pakistan, Afghanistan, northwestern India and Nepal. It hunts insects and scorpions at night, stores fat in its thick tail, and has real eyelids. It is also one of the most popular pet lizards in the world.","path":"/discover/animals/leopard-gecko","category":"reptiles","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/leopard-gecko-480.webp?v=27cc368466a53168","alt":"Photo of Leopard gecko","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:reptiles","tag:lizard","tag:gecko","tag:nocturnal","tag:desert","tag:pet-species","habitat:desert","habitat:grasslands","continent:asia","subgroup:lizard","iucn:lc"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:leopard-seal","kind":"animal","title":"Leopard seal","summary":"The leopard seal is a large, slender seal of the icy seas around Antarctica, named for the dark spots on its gray coat. It is a fast, powerful hunter with a big head and long teeth, and it eats everything from tiny krill to fish, penguins and young seals.","path":"/discover/animals/leopard-seal","category":"mammals","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/leopard-seal-480.webp?v=170496c7d36bf511","alt":"Photo of Leopard seal","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:mammals","tag:seal","tag:antarctic","tag:pinniped","tag:sea-ice","tag:predator","habitat:antarctic","continent:antarctica","subgroup:marine-mammal","iucn:lc"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:lesser-flamingo","kind":"animal","title":"Lesser flamingo","summary":"The lesser flamingo is the smallest flamingo. Millions live on salty, soda-rich lakes in Africa and India, where they sweep their upside-down bills through the water to filter out tiny algae, which help give them their pink color.","path":"/discover/animals/lesser-flamingo","category":"birds","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/lesser-flamingo-480.webp?v=37981f88576069ef","alt":"A lesser flamingo wading in Lake Naivasha, Kenya","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:birds","has:3d","tag:flamingos","tag:wetlands","tag:flocks","tag:pink","habitat:wetlands","continent:africa","continent:asia","subgroup:waterbird","has:journey","iucn:nt"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:lilac-breasted-roller","kind":"animal","title":"Lilac-breasted roller","summary":"The lilac-breasted roller is a dazzling bird of the open woodlands and savannas of eastern and southern Africa. It sits on high perches watching for insects, swoops down to catch them, and gets its name from the rolling, tumbling flights it makes in the breeding season.","path":"/discover/animals/lilac-breasted-roller","category":"birds","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/lilac-breasted-roller-480.webp?v=beb69bdb16778c5b","alt":"Lilac-breasted roller in flight in Etosha National Park","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:birds","tag:savanna","tag:colorful","tag:acrobat","tag:insect-eater","habitat:african-savanna","habitat:grasslands","continent:africa","subgroup:tropical","has:sound","iucn:lc"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:lined-seahorse","kind":"animal","title":"Lined seahorse","summary":"The lined seahorse is a small fish of the western Atlantic Ocean, from Canada and the United States down to Brazil. It has a horse-shaped head, a long snout with no teeth and a tail that grips seagrass. The male carries the eggs in a pouch until tiny seahorses are born.","path":"/discover/animals/lined-seahorse","category":"fish","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/lined-seahorse-480.webp?v=4c5033cda3e8393b","alt":"Photo of Lined seahorse","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:fish","has:3d","tag:ocean","tag:seagrass","tag:camouflage","tag:father-gives-birth","tag:vulnerable","habitat:coral-reef","habitat:wetlands","subgroup:reef-fish","iucn:vu"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:lion","kind":"animal","title":"Lion","summary":"The lion is the only big cat that lives in a family group, called a pride. Lionesses hunt together, males guard the pride\u0027s land, and their roar can be heard about 8 kilometers away. Wild lions live in Africa, plus one small group in western India.","path":"/discover/animals/lion","category":"mammals","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/lion-480.webp?v=a5fe4701ad5c4342","alt":"Paignton Zoo\u0027s lion pride","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:mammals","has:3d","tag:big-five","tag:big-cat","tag:savanna","tag:vulnerable","tag:social","habitat:african-savanna","habitat:grasslands","continent:africa","continent:asia","subgroup:big-cat","has:sound","iucn:vu"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:lions-mane-jellyfish","kind":"animal","title":"Lion\u0027s mane jellyfish","summary":"The lion\u0027s mane jellyfish is one of the biggest jellyfish in the world. Its bell is usually 30 to 50 centimeters across, but in very cold seas it can grow to about 2 meters, and hundreds of long, hair-like tentacles trail beneath it to catch food.","path":"/discover/animals/lions-mane-jellyfish","category":"invertebrates","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/lions-mane-jellyfish-480.webp?v=bd92b0048caecc53","alt":"Photo of Lion\u0027s mane jellyfish","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:invertebrates","tag:cnidarian","tag:jellyfish","tag:ocean","tag:cold-water","habitat:arctic","subgroup:cnidarian"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:little-penguin","kind":"animal","title":"Little penguin","summary":"The little penguin is the smallest penguin in the world, only about 33 centimeters long and about 1 kilogram. It lives along the coasts of southern Australia and New Zealand, where it is also called the fairy penguin, the blue penguin or koror\u0101. It fishes at sea by day and comes ashore after dark to its burrow.","path":"/discover/animals/little-penguin","category":"birds","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/little-penguin-480.webp?v=8b96e9cf13a85f16","alt":"Little Penguin , Bruny Island, Tasmania, Australia","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:birds","has:3d","tag:penguin","tag:smallest","tag:australia","tag:new-zealand","tag:nocturnal-on-land","continent:oceania","subgroup:penguin","has:sound","iucn:lc"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:llama","kind":"animal","title":"Llama","summary":"Llamas are South American cousins of camels, without the hump. People in the Andes Mountains bred them from wild guanacos thousands of years ago, and they still carry loads, give wool and even guard sheep. Llamas do not live in the wild: every llama lives with people.","path":"/discover/animals/llama","category":"mammals","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/llama-480.webp?v=27ec7a150699d00b","alt":"A female llama with her cria at Laguna Colorada, Reserva Nacional de Fauna Andina Eduardo Avaroa, Bolivia","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:mammals","has:3d","tag:mountains","tag:domesticated","tag:andes","tag:pack-animal","habitat:mountains","continent:south-america","subgroup:hoofed","has:domestic"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:loggerhead-sea-turtle","kind":"animal","title":"Loggerhead sea turtle","summary":"The loggerhead sea turtle is named for its huge head and powerful jaws, which crush crabs, conchs and other hard-shelled animals. Babies hatch on sandy beaches, ride the open ocean for years and may cross an entire ocean before coming home to nest.","path":"/discover/animals/loggerhead-sea-turtle","category":"reptiles","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/loggerhead-sea-turtle-480.webp?v=67342576ba31d39d","alt":"Underside of a loggerhead sea turtle as it swims overhead","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:reptiles","tag:sea-turtle","tag:ocean","tag:migration","tag:navigator","tag:vulnerable","subgroup:turtle","iucn:vu"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:luna-moth","kind":"animal","title":"Luna moth","summary":"The luna moth is a large green moth of the forests of eastern North America. Its long, twisting wing tails may help it escape hungry bats. Grown-up luna moths have no working mouth, so they live only about a week, just long enough to find a mate and lay eggs.","path":"/discover/animals/luna-moth","category":"invertebrates","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/luna-moth-480.webp?v=54a6ed966941c9de","alt":"Actias luna female taken by Shawn Hanrahan and reared on American Sweetgum","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:invertebrates","has:3d","tag:insect","tag:moth","tag:nocturnal","tag:metamorphosis","habitat:temperate-forest","continent:north-america","subgroup:insect"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:madagascar-hissing-cockroach","kind":"animal","title":"Madagascar hissing cockroach","summary":"The Madagascar hissing cockroach is one of the largest cockroaches in the world, up to 10 centimeters long, and it has no wings. It lives on the floor of rainforests on the island of Madagascar, where it eats fallen leaves and fruit. It makes a hissing sound by pushing air out of the breathing holes on its body.","path":"/discover/animals/madagascar-hissing-cockroach","category":"invertebrates","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/madagascar-hissing-cockroach-480.webp?v=5361e358bc3d1abb","alt":"Juvenile, Madagascar hissing cockroach at the Atlanta Botanical Garden","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:invertebrates","has:3d","tag:insect","tag:madagascar","tag:rainforest","tag:recycler","tag:hissing","continent:africa","subgroup:insect","has:sound"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:magnificent-sea-anemone","kind":"animal","title":"Magnificent sea anemone","summary":"The magnificent sea anemone is a large sea anemone of warm Indian and Pacific Ocean reefs. Its body is a soft column topped with hundreds of finger-shaped tentacles, and it often perches on top of rocks in plain view. Many kinds of clownfish live safely among its stinging tentacles.","path":"/discover/animals/magnificent-sea-anemone","category":"invertebrates","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/magnificent-sea-anemone-480.webp?v=6577c83d172f1fca","alt":"Magnificent sea anemone , Zanzibar, Tanzania","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:invertebrates","tag:cnidarian","tag:coral-reef","tag:clownfish-host","tag:partnership","habitat:coral-reef","subgroup:cnidarian"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:mallard","kind":"animal","title":"Mallard","summary":"The mallard is perhaps the most familiar duck in the world, found on ponds, lakes, rivers and city parks across North America, Europe and Asia. Males have glossy green heads; females are mottled brown. Almost all farm ducks are descended from mallards.","path":"/discover/animals/mallard","category":"birds","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/mallard-480.webp?v=9bc714ef3ed0e4e5","alt":"Photo of Mallard","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:birds","has:3d","tag:duck","tag:wetlands","tag:parks","tag:dabbling-duck","tag:ancestor-of-domestic-ducks","habitat:wetlands","continent:north-america","continent:europe","continent:asia","continent:africa","subgroup:waterbird","has:sound","has:journey","iucn:lc"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:mandarin-duck","kind":"animal","title":"Mandarin duck","summary":"The mandarin duck is a small, very colorful duck from East Asia. The male has orange \u0027sail\u0027 feathers on his back and orange whiskers on his face, while the female is soft gray and brown. Mandarins nest in holes in trees, and the ducklings jump down to the ground soon after hatching.","path":"/discover/animals/mandarin-duck","category":"birds","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/mandarin-duck-480.webp?v=ea4f6da7b1812821","alt":"Aix galericulata drake / Male Mandarin Duck at Isabella Plantation in Richmond Park, London, United Kingdom","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:birds","tag:duck","tag:waterfowl","tag:colorful","tag:tree-nester","tag:introduced-species","tag:east-asia","habitat:wetlands","habitat:temperate-forest","continent:asia","continent:europe","subgroup:waterbird","has:journey","iucn:lc"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:mandarinfish","kind":"animal","title":"Mandarinfish","summary":"The mandarinfish is a small, shy fish from the coral reefs of the western Pacific Ocean. It has no scales; instead its skin is covered with slimy mucus and painted with swirling blue, orange and green lines. It hops along the reef bottom on fan-shaped fins, picking up tiny animals, and at dusk males and females rise together to release their eggs.","path":"/discover/animals/mandarinfish","category":"fish","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/mandarinfish-480.webp?v=e24c07c27b773f6d","alt":"Mandarinfish in aquarium-Mus\u00E9um Li\u00E8ge","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:fish","tag:coral-reef","tag:colorful","tag:dragonet","tag:aquarium-trade","habitat:coral-reef","subgroup:reef-fish","iucn:lc"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:mandrill","kind":"animal","title":"Mandrill","summary":"The mandrill is the largest and most colorful of the Old World monkeys. Grown-up males have red noses, blue-ridged cheeks and a golden beard. Mandrills roam the rainforests of west-central Africa in huge, noisy groups called hordes.","path":"/discover/animals/mandrill","category":"mammals","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/mandrill-480.webp?v=eb40c582bda467b5","alt":"Photo of Mandrill","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:mammals","tag:monkey","tag:primate","tag:rainforest","tag:vulnerable","continent:africa","subgroup:primate","iucn:vu"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:maned-wolf","kind":"animal","title":"Maned wolf","summary":"The maned wolf lives in the grasslands and open woodlands of central South America. It looks like a big red fox on long black legs, but it is neither a fox nor a true wolf. It eats small animals and lots of fruit, and its long legs help it see over tall grass.","path":"/discover/animals/maned-wolf","category":"mammals","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/maned-wolf-480.webp?v=b9eb5b16229591fc","alt":"Photo of Maned wolf","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:mammals","tag:dog-family","tag:grasslands","tag:long-legs","tag:near-threatened","habitat:grasslands","habitat:wetlands","continent:south-america","subgroup:dog-family","iucn:nt"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:marine-iguana","kind":"animal","title":"Marine iguana","summary":"The marine iguana is the only lizard in the world that finds its food in the sea. It lives only on the rocky shores of the Gal\u00E1pagos Islands, where it grazes on seaweed, warms up on black lava rocks and sneezes out extra salt.","path":"/discover/animals/marine-iguana","category":"reptiles","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/marine-iguana-480.webp?v=de5a8a2b46f5def8","alt":"Marine iguana on South Plaza island, Gal\u00E1pagos, Ecuador","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:reptiles","tag:lizard","tag:islands","tag:seaweed-eater","tag:swimmer","tag:vulnerable","continent:south-america","subgroup:lizard","iucn:vu"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:meerkat","kind":"animal","title":"Meerkat","summary":"Meerkats are small members of the mongoose family that live in dry, open country in southern Africa. They live in groups called mobs, dig for insects all day, and take turns as lookouts, standing tall and calling out if an eagle or jackal comes near. Everyone helps raise the babies.","path":"/discover/animals/meerkat","category":"mammals","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/meerkat-480.webp?v=7be04d239483b995","alt":"Meerkat at Antwerp Zoo","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:mammals","tag:desert","tag:kalahari","tag:teamwork","tag:burrows","habitat:desert","habitat:african-savanna","habitat:grasslands","continent:africa","subgroup:carnivore","has:sound","iucn:lc"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:megamouth-shark","kind":"animal","title":"Megamouth shark","summary":"The megamouth shark is a huge, slow shark with a big, rounded head and an enormous mouth. It swims with its mouth open to gulp tiny shrimp called krill and other small animals. It lives far out in the open ocean and is so rarely seen that scientists did not know it existed until 1976.","path":"/discover/animals/megamouth-shark","category":"fish","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/megamouth-shark-480.webp?v=3d428550454927ae","alt":"A megamouth shark specimen on display at Keikyu Aburatsubo Marine Park, Japan","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:fish","has:3d","tag:shark","tag:deep-sea","tag:filter-feeder","tag:rare","habitat:deep-ocean","subgroup:shark","iucn:lc"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:mekong-giant-catfish","kind":"animal","title":"Mekong giant catfish","summary":"The Mekong giant catfish is one of the largest freshwater fish in the world. It lives only in the Mekong River and its lakes in Southeast Asia, grows up to about 3 meters long, and eats algae and plant matter. It is now critically endangered.","path":"/discover/animals/mekong-giant-catfish","category":"fish","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/mekong-giant-catfish-480.webp?v=f148731dd369ef4c","alt":"Mekong giant catfish, Pangasianodon gigas at River Wonders in Singapore","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:fish","tag:giant","tag:rivers","tag:critically-endangered","tag:migration","tag:fishing","habitat:wetlands","continent:asia","subgroup:freshwater-fish","iucn:cr"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:mexican-red-knee-tarantula","kind":"animal","title":"Mexican red-knee tarantula","summary":"The Mexican red-knee tarantula is a large, calm spider with black legs and bright orange-red patches at its leg joints. It lives only in a small part of western Mexico, where it hides in burrows by day and waits at the entrance for food at night. Because so many were taken for the pet trade and its forest is shrinking, it is listed as Vulnerable.","path":"/discover/animals/mexican-red-knee-tarantula","category":"invertebrates","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/mexican-red-knee-tarantula-480.webp?v=5dc879684b5188ec","alt":"Mexican Red-kneed Tarantula, Mexican Red-kneed birdeater","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:invertebrates","tag:spider","tag:tarantula","tag:arachnid","tag:mexico","tag:vulnerable","continent:north-america","subgroup:arachnid","iucn:vu"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:mimic-octopus","kind":"animal","title":"Mimic octopus","summary":"The mimic octopus is a long-armed, brown-and-white octopus that lives on sandy sea floors in Southeast Asia. Scientists first filmed it in 1998 and were amazed: it changes its shape, colors and movements to look like other animals, including a flatfish, a lionfish and a sea snake.","path":"/discover/animals/mimic-octopus","category":"invertebrates","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/mimic-octopus-480.webp?v=4527746f135b53e9","alt":"Photo of Mimic octopus","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:invertebrates","tag:octopus","tag:mollusc","tag:mimicry","tag:camouflage","tag:superpower","subgroup:mollusc","iucn:lc"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:monarch-butterfly","kind":"animal","title":"Monarch butterfly","summary":"The monarch butterfly is famous for its bright orange wings and its amazing journey. Each fall, monarchs from eastern North America fly up to 3,000 miles to mountain forests in Mexico, where they spend the winter clustered together on fir trees. Their caterpillars eat only milkweed, which makes them taste bad to predators.","path":"/discover/animals/monarch-butterfly","category":"invertebrates","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/monarch-butterfly-480.webp?v=0fa57e22293bc850","alt":"Monarch butterfly male on Tithonia flower in the Brooklyn Botanic Garden","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:invertebrates","has:3d","tag:insect","tag:migratory","tag:pollinator","tag:diurnal","tag:metamorphosis","habitat:grasslands","habitat:mountains","continent:north-america","continent:south-america","continent:oceania","continent:europe","subgroup:insect","has:journey","iucn:lc"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:moon-jellyfish","kind":"animal","title":"Moon jellyfish","summary":"The moon jellyfish is a clear, saucer-shaped jelly found in coastal seas around the world. It has no eyes, brain or heart, and it is about 95 percent water. Four horseshoe-shaped rings show through its bell, and short stinging tentacles fringe its edge to catch tiny plankton.","path":"/discover/animals/moon-jellyfish","category":"invertebrates","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/moon-jellyfish-480.webp?v=fd80114344ae49ef","alt":"Photo of Moon jellyfish","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:invertebrates","tag:cnidarian","tag:ocean","tag:plankton","tag:superpower","subgroup:cnidarian"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:moorish-idol","kind":"animal","title":"Moorish idol","summary":"The Moorish idol is a tall, flat reef fish with bold black, white and yellow bars, an orange patch on its snout and a long white fin that trails behind it like a ribbon. It lives on reefs across the Indian and Pacific Oceans, from East Africa to the coasts of the Americas, and uses its tube-like snout to pick sponges and small animals from cracks.","path":"/discover/animals/moorish-idol","category":"fish","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/moorish-idol-480.webp?v=29bda91b3d67cd9d","alt":"Moorish idol , Los Cabos, Baja California, Mexico","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:fish","tag:coral-reef","tag:ocean","tag:stripes","habitat:coral-reef","subgroup:reef-fish","iucn:lc"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:moose","kind":"animal","title":"Moose","summary":"The moose is the largest member of the deer family. It lives in northern forests, wades and even dives into lakes to eat water plants, and bull moose grow enormous new antlers every year. In Europe it is called an elk.","path":"/discover/animals/moose","category":"mammals","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/moose-480.webp?v=9576de289874d5e0","alt":"Photo of Moose","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:mammals","tag:forest","tag:deer","tag:antlers","tag:swimmer","habitat:temperate-forest","habitat:wetlands","continent:north-america","continent:europe","continent:asia","subgroup:hoofed","has:sound","iucn:lc"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:mountain-goat","kind":"animal","title":"Mountain goat","summary":"Mountain goats are white, woolly climbers that live on steep cliffs in the mountains of western North America. Grippy hooves let them cross icy rock where few predators dare to follow. Despite the name, they are not true goats.","path":"/discover/animals/mountain-goat","category":"mammals","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/mountain-goat-480.webp?v=15133abc2784077e","alt":"Mountain Goat on Mount Massive, Colorado, USA","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:mammals","tag:mountains","tag:climbers","tag:north-america","tag:horns","habitat:mountains","continent:north-america","subgroup:hoofed","iucn:lc"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:muskox","kind":"animal","title":"Muskox","summary":"Muskoxen are shaggy Arctic grazers with long coats that nearly reach the ground and a super-warm underwool called qiviut. Herds protect their calves by standing in a ring with their horns facing out. Despite the name, they are more closely related to goats and sheep than to oxen.","path":"/discover/animals/muskox","category":"mammals","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/muskox-480.webp?v=d9121c8f21269ee9","alt":"Muskox male, Dovrefjell National Park, Norway","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:mammals","tag:arctic","tag:tundra","tag:wool","tag:herds","habitat:arctic","continent:north-america","continent:europe","continent:asia","subgroup:hoofed","iucn:lc"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:mute-swan","kind":"animal","title":"Mute swan","summary":"The mute swan is among the largest waterfowl, all white with an orange bill topped by a black knob. It is native to Europe and Asia, where it lives on lakes, rivers and park ponds. People took mute swans to North America and other places, where they now live in the wild and can cause problems for native wildlife.","path":"/discover/animals/mute-swan","category":"birds","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/mute-swan-480.webp?v=1442737875a277a1","alt":"A photo of a Mute swan swimming on Emsworth Millpond","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:birds","tag:swan","tag:waterfowl","tag:wetlands","tag:parks","tag:introduced-species","tag:europe","habitat:wetlands","continent:europe","continent:asia","subgroup:waterbird","has:sound","has:journey","iucn:lc"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:naked-mole-rat","kind":"animal","title":"Naked mole-rat","summary":"Naked mole-rats are almost hairless rodents that spend their whole lives in tunnels under the dry lands of eastern Africa. They live in big colonies where only one female, the queen, has babies, and they can live for around 30 years.","path":"/discover/animals/naked-mole-rat","category":"mammals","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/naked-mole-rat-480.webp?v=c7275c92bbdd11ec","alt":"Naked mole rat in a zoo","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:mammals","tag:rodents","tag:burrows","tag:underground","tag:superpower","habitat:desert","habitat:african-savanna","continent:africa","subgroup:rodent-and-rabbit","iucn:lc"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:narwhal","kind":"animal","title":"Narwhal","summary":"The narwhal is a toothed whale of the icy Arctic Ocean. Most males have a long, spiral tusk that is really a tooth growing forward out of the front of the jaw, and it can be up to about 3 meters long. Narwhals dive deep under the sea ice to catch fish, squid and shrimp.","path":"/discover/animals/narwhal","category":"mammals","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/narwhal-480.webp?v=810f4b125fd27a6c","alt":"Photo of Narwhal","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:mammals","has:3d","tag:arctic","tag:ocean","tag:toothed-whale","tag:sea-ice","tag:superpower","habitat:arctic","subgroup:marine-mammal","iucn:lc"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:neon-tetra","kind":"animal","title":"Neon tetra","summary":"The neon tetra is a tiny fish, about as long as a quarter is wide, with a glowing blue stripe and a bright red patch. In the wild it lives in clear and dark-water forest streams of the western Amazon. It is also one of the most popular aquarium fish in the world.","path":"/discover/animals/neon-tetra","category":"fish","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/neon-tetra-480.webp?v=ee62436594c0cbba","alt":"Neon Tetra, Paracheirodon innesi, Family: Characidae","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:fish","tag:amazon","tag:tiny","tag:colorful","tag:aquarium","tag:rivers","habitat:amazon-rainforest","continent:south-america","subgroup:freshwater-fish","iucn:lc"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:new-caledonian-crow","kind":"animal","title":"New Caledonian crow","summary":"The New Caledonian crow lives only on the islands of New Caledonia in the Pacific. It looks like an ordinary black crow, but it makes and uses tools: hooked sticks and cut strips of leaf that it pokes into holes in dead wood to pull out insects and grubs.","path":"/discover/animals/new-caledonian-crow","category":"birds","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/new-caledonian-crow-480.webp?v=38639cb160018a6f","alt":"New Caledonian Crow Corvus moneduloides, Bourail, New Caledonia","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:birds","tag:tool-user","tag:clever","tag:island","tag:superpower","continent:oceania","subgroup:songbird","iucn:lc"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:nile-crocodile","kind":"animal","title":"Nile crocodile","summary":"The Nile crocodile is Africa\u0027s largest crocodile. It lives in rivers, lakes and swamps across much of eastern, central and southern Africa and Madagascar. It eats mostly fish, basks on sunny banks and is a surprisingly caring parent.","path":"/discover/animals/nile-crocodile","category":"reptiles","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/nile-crocodile-480.webp?v=562b3f3cfe0fbeca","alt":"Nile crocodile during the golden hour, Chobe National Park, Botswana","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:reptiles","tag:crocodilian","tag:rivers","tag:africa","tag:caring-parent","habitat:wetlands","habitat:african-savanna","continent:africa","subgroup:crocodilian","iucn:lc"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:nine-banded-armadillo","kind":"animal","title":"Nine-banded armadillo","summary":"The nine-banded armadillo is a small, armored digger that lives from Argentina all the way to the United States. It sniffs out beetles and other bugs in the soil, can hold its breath for six minutes, and almost always has four identical babies at once.","path":"/discover/animals/nine-banded-armadillo","category":"mammals","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/nine-banded-armadillo-480.webp?v=e9634e74d28735b2","alt":"A Nine-banded Armadillo in the Green Swamp, central Florida","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:mammals","tag:armor","tag:diggers","tag:nocturnal","tag:quadruplets","habitat:temperate-forest","habitat:grasslands","continent:north-america","continent:south-america","subgroup:xenarthran-and-kin","iucn:lc"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:north-american-beaver","kind":"animal","title":"North American beaver","summary":"The North American beaver is the largest rodent in North America and a champion builder. It gnaws down trees with its strong orange teeth, builds dams that turn streams into ponds, and lives with its family in a lodge made of branches and mud.","path":"/discover/animals/north-american-beaver","category":"mammals","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/north-american-beaver-480.webp?v=8096be7b04de2c2e","alt":"Photo of North American beaver","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:mammals","tag:rodent","tag:builder","tag:wetlands","tag:ecosystem-engineer","habitat:wetlands","habitat:temperate-forest","continent:north-america","subgroup:rodent-and-rabbit","iucn:lc"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:north-atlantic-right-whale","kind":"animal","title":"North Atlantic right whale","summary":"The North Atlantic right whale is a large black baleen whale that lives along the east coast of North America. It filters tiny animals called copepods from the water and has rough white patches on its head that are different on every whale. It is one of the most endangered large whales, with about 384 left (2024), and many people are working to protect it.","path":"/discover/animals/north-atlantic-right-whale","category":"mammals","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/north-atlantic-right-whale-480.webp?v=1c8cab20214b6b34","alt":"Photo of North Atlantic right whale","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:mammals","tag:ocean","tag:baleen-whale","tag:endangered","tag:migration","tag:coasts","subgroup:marine-mammal","has:journey","iucn:cr"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:north-island-brown-kiwi","kind":"animal","title":"North Island brown kiwi","summary":"The North Island brown kiwi is a flightless bird that lives only in New Zealand\u0027s North Island. It has shaggy brown feathers, no tail, and a long bill with nostrils near the tip, so it can sniff out worms and grubs in the dark. The father keeps the huge egg warm for 75 to 90 days.","path":"/discover/animals/north-island-brown-kiwi","category":"birds","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/north-island-brown-kiwi-480.webp?v=484c2ed1336c37b5","alt":"A North Island Brown Kiwi at Rainbow Springs Kiwi Wildlife Park in Rotorua, North Island, New Zealand","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:birds","tag:kiwi","tag:flightless","tag:nocturnal","tag:new-zealand","tag:sense-of-smell","habitat:temperate-forest","continent:oceania","subgroup:flightless","has:sound","iucn:vu"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:northern-cardinal","kind":"animal","title":"Northern cardinal","summary":"The northern cardinal is a crested songbird of eastern North America and Mexico. Males are brilliant red with a black face; females are warm brown with red touches. Cardinals crack seeds with their thick bills, stay in the same area all year, and both males and females sing.","path":"/discover/animals/northern-cardinal","category":"birds","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/northern-cardinal-480.webp?v=45a69385ec2e82e2","alt":"Photo of Northern cardinal","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:birds","tag:songbird","tag:backyard","tag:red-bird","tag:state-bird","habitat:temperate-forest","continent:north-america","subgroup:songbird","has:sound","iucn:lc"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:asian-giant-hornet","kind":"animal","title":"Northern giant hornet","summary":"The northern giant hornet, once called the Asian giant hornet, is the world\u0027s largest hornet. It lives in forests of eastern Asia, where each colony is started by one queen in an underground nest. Its workers hunt other insects, including honey bees, to feed the young hornets.","path":"/discover/animals/asian-giant-hornet","category":"invertebrates","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/asian-giant-hornet-480.webp?v=f23472a67de3e19d","alt":"Photo of Asian giant hornet","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:invertebrates","has:3d","tag:insect","tag:wasp","tag:social-insect","tag:predator","habitat:temperate-forest","habitat:mountains","continent:asia","subgroup:insect"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:northern-mockingbird","kind":"animal","title":"Northern mockingbird","summary":"The northern mockingbird is a slim gray songbird famous for copying sounds. It sings long strings of phrases, many borrowed from other birds, and sometimes sings all night. It lives in towns, farms and brushy places across the United States, Mexico and the Caribbean.","path":"/discover/animals/northern-mockingbird","category":"birds","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/northern-mockingbird-480.webp?v=f0e9901a82fe2660","alt":"Northern mockingbird adult on a fence post in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:birds","tag:songbird","tag:mimic","tag:city-bird","tag:state-bird","habitat:grasslands","continent:north-america","subgroup:songbird","has:sound","iucn:lc"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:northern-pike","kind":"animal","title":"Northern pike","summary":"The northern pike is a long, torpedo-shaped freshwater fish with a duck-bill snout full of sharp teeth. It lives in cool lakes and rivers across the northern parts of North America, Europe and Asia, where it hides among water plants and ambushes passing fish.","path":"/discover/animals/northern-pike","category":"fish","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/northern-pike-480.webp?v=4a94fa12a3be3448","alt":"Europ\u00E4ischer Hecht , Maretarium Kotka / Northern Pike , Maretarium Kotka / Finland;","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:fish","has:3d","tag:freshwater","tag:lakes-and-rivers","tag:predator","tag:spots","tag:invasive-elsewhere","habitat:wetlands","continent:north-america","continent:europe","continent:asia","subgroup:freshwater-fish","iucn:lc"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:ocean-sunfish","kind":"animal","title":"Ocean sunfish","summary":"The ocean sunfish, or mola, is one of the heaviest bony fish in the world. Its body is tall, round and flat, with a long fin on top, another underneath, and a strange frilly edge instead of a tail. It dives deep to eat jellyfish and is often seen resting at the surface, perhaps to warm up.","path":"/discover/animals/ocean-sunfish","category":"fish","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/ocean-sunfish-480.webp?v=f72b8e98f3e6ee61","alt":"Photo of Ocean sunfish","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:fish","has:3d","tag:ocean","tag:giant","tag:jellyfish-eater","tag:deep-diver","tag:vulnerable","habitat:deep-ocean","subgroup:ocean-fish","iucn:vu"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:clownfish","kind":"animal","title":"Ocellaris clownfish","summary":"The ocellaris clownfish is a small orange-and-white reef fish from the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It shelters among the stinging tentacles of a sea anemone, protected by a slimy coat, and every clownfish starts life as a male.","path":"/discover/animals/clownfish","category":"fish","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/clownfish-480.webp?v=6e15510519d69779","alt":"Amphiprion ocellaris in Papua New Guinea","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:fish","tag:coral-reef","tag:partnership","tag:ocean","tag:superpower","habitat:coral-reef","subgroup:reef-fish","iucn:lc"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:ocelot","kind":"animal","title":"Ocelot","summary":"The ocelot is a medium-sized wild cat of the Americas, from southern Texas to northern Argentina. Its golden coat has chains of dark-edged spots, and no two ocelots look alike. It hunts mostly at night, catching mice, rats, lizards and birds, and it needs thick plants to hide in.","path":"/discover/animals/ocelot","category":"mammals","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/ocelot-480.webp?v=463c98663e041e92","alt":"Ocelot in Parque Estadual Encontro das \u00C1guas, Brazil","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:mammals","tag:cat-family","tag:nocturnal","tag:rainforest","tag:spots","tag:least-concern","habitat:amazon-rainforest","continent:north-america","continent:south-america","subgroup:small-cat","iucn:lc"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:ochre-sea-star","kind":"animal","title":"Ochre sea star","summary":"The ochre sea star lives on wave-washed rocky shores along the Pacific coast of North America. It can be purple, orange or brown, and it pries open mussels to eat them with a stomach it pushes out of its body. It is so important to its shore that scientists call it a keystone species.","path":"/discover/animals/ochre-sea-star","category":"invertebrates","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/ochre-sea-star-480.webp?v=ab842a36a94a9c49","alt":"Ochre sea star taken at Ganges Harbour, Salt Spring Island, British Columbia","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:invertebrates","tag:echinoderm","tag:sea-star","tag:tide-pools","tag:keystone","continent:north-america","subgroup:echinoderm"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:okapi","kind":"animal","title":"Okapi","summary":"The okapi has a velvety reddish-brown coat and zebra-like stripes on its legs, but its closest living relative is the giraffe. It lives only in the rainforests of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, where it browses leaves with a long, dark tongue. It is endangered.","path":"/discover/animals/okapi","category":"mammals","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/okapi-480.webp?v=3649d3fc3256ede8","alt":"Okapi and son","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:mammals","tag:rainforest","tag:endangered","tag:giraffe-family","tag:stripes","continent:africa","subgroup:hoofed","iucn:en"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:old-world-swallowtail","kind":"animal","title":"Old World swallowtail","summary":"The Old World swallowtail is a large butterfly with yellow wings, black veins, blue spots and a red eyespot near the long tails on its hindwings. It lives across Europe and Asia and in northern North America. Its green and black caterpillar has a hidden orange fork that pops out when it is bothered.","path":"/discover/animals/old-world-swallowtail","category":"invertebrates","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/old-world-swallowtail-480.webp?v=218c57406bd47e47","alt":"Photo of Old World swallowtail","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:invertebrates","has:3d","tag:butterfly","tag:insect","tag:metamorphosis","tag:meadows","tag:eyespots","habitat:grasslands","habitat:mountains","habitat:wetlands","continent:europe","continent:asia","continent:north-america","subgroup:insect"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:olm","kind":"animal","title":"Olm","summary":"The olm is a long, pale salamander that spends its whole life in underground rivers and lakes in the caves of southeastern Europe. Its eyes are covered by skin, it keeps pink feathery gills all its life, and it finds food by smell and by feeling vibrations. Olms can live for many decades and survive years without eating.","path":"/discover/animals/olm","category":"amphibians","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/olm-480.webp?v=41b7361e285ba8f8","alt":"Olm in its natural habitat, in the cave of the lake Divje jezero, Slovenia","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:amphibians","tag:salamander","tag:amphibian","tag:cave","tag:blind","tag:vulnerable","habitat:mountains","continent:europe","subgroup:salamander","iucn:vu"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:orange-clownfish","kind":"animal","title":"Orange clownfish","summary":"The orange clownfish is a small, bright orange reef fish with three white bands edged in black. It lives in the warm western Pacific, from northern Australia to New Guinea and the Solomon Islands, always beside a sea anemone. A coat of slimy mucus keeps the anemone\u0027s stings from hurting it, and the fish and anemone help each other.","path":"/discover/animals/orange-clownfish","category":"fish","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/orange-clownfish-480.webp?v=5398ab042e8d2912","alt":"Wild orange clownfish in their sea anemone in the New Georgia Group, Solomon Islands","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:fish","tag:coral-reef","tag:anemone","tag:ocean","tag:partnership","habitat:coral-reef","subgroup:reef-fish","iucn:lc"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:orca","kind":"animal","title":"Orca","summary":"The orca, also called the killer whale, is the largest member of the dolphin family and the ocean\u0027s top predator. Orcas live in every ocean, in close family groups called pods, made up of orcas related through their mothers. Each group has its own favorite foods, hunting tricks and even its own calls, which young orcas learn from their families.","path":"/discover/animals/orca","category":"mammals","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/orca-480.webp?v=90fbdea75fbf6778","alt":"Photo of Orca","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:mammals","has:3d","tag:ocean","tag:dolphin-family","tag:top-predator","tag:family-pods","tag:culture","habitat:arctic","habitat:antarctic","habitat:deep-ocean","subgroup:marine-mammal","has:sound","iucn:dd"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:orchid-mantis","kind":"animal","title":"Orchid mantis","summary":"The orchid mantis is a praying mantis from the rainforests of Southeast Asia that looks like a flower. Its white and pink colors fool bees and other insects that visit flowers, and the mantis catches them. Its leg flaps look like petals, and scientists recently found that they also help young mantises glide through the air.","path":"/discover/animals/orchid-mantis","category":"invertebrates","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/orchid-mantis-480.webp?v=93d7060a3b0ddc95","alt":"Photo of Orchid mantis","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:invertebrates","tag:mantis","tag:insect","tag:camouflage","tag:mimicry","tag:rainforest","habitat:asian-rainforest","continent:asia","subgroup:insect"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:osprey","kind":"animal","title":"Osprey","summary":"Ospreys are large, fish-eating hawks found near water on every continent except Antarctica. They plunge feet first to grab fish, build huge stick nests and, in many places, migrate thousands of kilometers. After pesticides made them rare, they have made a big comeback.","path":"/discover/animals/osprey","category":"birds","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/osprey-480.webp?v=7c2cc918cfcca3f3","alt":"Photo of Osprey","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:birds","tag:raptors","tag:fish-eaters","tag:migration","tag:worldwide","habitat:wetlands","continent:europe","continent:asia","continent:africa","continent:north-america","continent:south-america","continent:oceania","subgroup:raptor","has:sound","has:journey","iucn:lc"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:banana-slug","kind":"animal","title":"Pacific banana slug","summary":"The Pacific banana slug is one of the biggest slugs in the world, often as long as a banana and sometimes yellow like one. It lives in the damp rainforests along the Pacific coast of North America, where it eats fallen leaves, mushrooms and other plant matter, helping to recycle the forest.","path":"/discover/animals/banana-slug","category":"invertebrates","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/banana-slug-480.webp?v=23f7802596b74621","alt":"Banana Slug , Canada","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:invertebrates","tag:slug","tag:mollusc","tag:rainforest","tag:decomposer","tag:slime","habitat:temperate-forest","continent:north-america","subgroup:mollusc"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:painted-lady","kind":"animal","title":"Painted lady","summary":"The painted lady is one of the most widespread butterflies in the world. Its orange and black wings carry it on huge journeys: each year, families of painted ladies fly between Africa and northern Europe, one generation after another.","path":"/discover/animals/painted-lady","category":"invertebrates","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/painted-lady-480.webp?v=8a90356d7c9b1aee","alt":"Photo of Painted lady","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:invertebrates","has:3d","tag:insect","tag:butterfly","tag:migratory","tag:metamorphosis","habitat:grasslands","continent:africa","continent:asia","continent:europe","continent:north-america","subgroup:insect"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:painted-turtle","kind":"animal","title":"Painted turtle","summary":"The painted turtle is one of the most common turtles in North America. Its dark shell and skin are decorated with bright red and yellow markings, and on sunny days dozens may pile onto one log to bask. It lives in ponds, marshes and slow streams from Canada to northern Mexico.","path":"/discover/animals/painted-turtle","category":"reptiles","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/painted-turtle-480.webp?v=ccb598e4cebcf37e","alt":"This image shows a male Southern Painted Turtle","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:reptiles","tag:freshwater","tag:basking","tag:pond-life","tag:colorful","habitat:wetlands","continent:north-america","subgroup:turtle","iucn:lc"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:pallas-cat","kind":"animal","title":"Pallas\u0027s cat","summary":"Pallas\u0027s cat, or the manul, is a small wild cat of the cold, dry grasslands and mountains of Central Asia. Its long, thick fur makes it look bigger than it really is, and its flat face and low, round ears help it peek over rocks without being seen. It hunts pikas and other small animals.","path":"/discover/animals/pallas-cat","category":"mammals","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/pallas-cat-480.webp?v=33a1b4cfe94c47a8","alt":"Pallas cat residing at Wildlife Heritage Foundation, Smarden, Kent","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:mammals","tag:cats","tag:mountains","tag:grasslands","tag:fluffy","habitat:mountains","habitat:grasslands","continent:asia","subgroup:small-cat","iucn:lc"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:panamanian-golden-frog","kind":"animal","title":"Panamanian golden frog","summary":"The Panamanian golden frog is a small, bright yellow toad with black patches from the forest streams of Panama. Males wave their arms to talk to each other. A disease caused by the chytrid fungus wiped out the wild frogs, and none has been seen in the wild since 2009, so zoos and scientists are caring for golden frogs and working to return them to nature one day.","path":"/discover/animals/panamanian-golden-frog","category":"amphibians","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/panamanian-golden-frog-480.webp?v=d2f97f318e02cf2e","alt":"The Panamanian golden frog is a critically endangered toad which is endemic to Panama","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:amphibians","tag:toad","tag:critically-endangered","tag:panama","tag:chytrid","tag:zoo-rescue","habitat:mountains","continent:north-america","subgroup:frog","iucn:cr"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:panther-chameleon","kind":"animal","title":"Panther chameleon","summary":"The panther chameleon is a lizard famous for its brilliant colors. It lives on the island of Madagascar, grips branches with tong-shaped feet and a curling tail, looks two ways at once, and catches insects with a lightning-fast tongue. Males change their colors to send messages.","path":"/discover/animals/panther-chameleon","category":"reptiles","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/panther-chameleon-480.webp?v=fbf4963bf6dfd930","alt":"Panther chameleon male, Lokobe Strict Reserve, Nosy Be, Madagascar","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:reptiles","tag:lizard","tag:chameleon","tag:color-change","tag:madagascar","tag:island","continent:africa","subgroup:lizard","iucn:lc"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:peacock-mantis-shrimp","kind":"animal","title":"Peacock mantis shrimp","summary":"The peacock mantis shrimp is one of the most colorful animals on coral reefs in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is famous for its club-shaped arms, which strike so fast that they can smash snail shells, and for its amazing eyes on movable stalks.","path":"/discover/animals/peacock-mantis-shrimp","category":"invertebrates","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/peacock-mantis-shrimp-480.webp?v=5d67614634205264","alt":"Photo of Peacock mantis shrimp","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:invertebrates","tag:crustacean","tag:coral-reef","tag:colorful","tag:superpower","tag:eyes","habitat:coral-reef","subgroup:crustacean"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:peacock-spider","kind":"animal","title":"Peacock spider","summary":"The peacock spider is a jumping spider from Australia, smaller than a grain of rice. The male has a rainbow-colored abdomen with flaps that unfold into a fan, like a peacock\u0027s tail. He waves the fan and his long third legs in a dance to win over a female, and he sends little vibrations through the ground at the same time.","path":"/discover/animals/peacock-spider","category":"invertebrates","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/peacock-spider-480.webp?v=c96bc2550522d5d5","alt":"Flying Peacock Spider","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:invertebrates","tag:spider","tag:jumping-spider","tag:arachnid","tag:courtship","tag:australia","tag:colorful","habitat:grasslands","continent:oceania","subgroup:arachnid"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:peregrine-falcon","kind":"animal","title":"Peregrine falcon","summary":"The peregrine falcon is a crow-sized bird of prey famous for its hunting dive, called a stoop. Diving from high above, it can reach about 320 kilometers per hour, making it the fastest animal on Earth. It lives on every continent except Antarctica, even in big cities.","path":"/discover/animals/peregrine-falcon","category":"birds","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/peregrine-falcon-480.webp?v=1a0347f9bf1b5efa","alt":"Captive peregrine falcon in the Community of Madrid, Spain","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:birds","has:3d","tag:bird-of-prey","tag:record-holder","tag:fastest-animal","tag:comeback","habitat:mountains","habitat:wetlands","continent:north-america","continent:south-america","continent:europe","continent:asia","continent:africa","continent:oceania","subgroup:raptor","has:sound","iucn:lc"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:periodical-cicada","kind":"animal","title":"Periodical cicada","summary":"The periodical cicada spends 17 years underground as a nymph, sipping juice from tree roots. Then, in late spring, millions of them dig out on the same few nights, turn into winged adults and fill the trees with their loud songs, all within a few weeks.","path":"/discover/animals/periodical-cicada","category":"invertebrates","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/periodical-cicada-480.webp?v=958cdcb6c902d97b","alt":"Seventeen-year Periodical Cicada - Magicicada septemdecim, Leesylvania State Park, Woodbridge, Virginia","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:invertebrates","has:3d","tag:insect","tag:cicada","tag:17-year","tag:noisy","habitat:temperate-forest","continent:north-america","subgroup:insect","has:sound","iucn:nt"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:philippine-eagle","kind":"animal","title":"Philippine eagle","summary":"The Philippine eagle is one of the largest and rarest eagles in the world. It lives only in the mountain rainforests of four Philippine islands, where it hunts monkeys, civets, flying squirrels and other forest animals. It is the national bird of the Philippines, and it is critically endangered.","path":"/discover/animals/philippine-eagle","category":"birds","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/philippine-eagle-480.webp?v=b99c451fcee0d2d2","alt":"Photo of Philippine eagle","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:birds","tag:bird-of-prey","tag:raptor","tag:eagle","tag:rainforest","tag:critically-endangered","tag:islands","habitat:asian-rainforest","habitat:mountains","continent:asia","subgroup:raptor","iucn:cr"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:pileated-woodpecker","kind":"animal","title":"Pileated woodpecker","summary":"The pileated woodpecker is the largest woodpecker in North America that is still alive today, nearly as big as a crow, with a flaming red crest. It chisels big rectangular holes in dead trees to reach carpenter ants, and the nest holes it carves later shelter owls, ducks, bats and other animals.","path":"/discover/animals/pileated-woodpecker","category":"birds","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/pileated-woodpecker-480.webp?v=b21413b41b860bdc","alt":"Photo of Pileated woodpecker","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:birds","tag:woodpecker","tag:forest","tag:ants","tag:builder","habitat:temperate-forest","continent:north-america","subgroup:woodpecker","has:sound"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:plains-zebra","kind":"animal","title":"Plains zebra","summary":"Plains zebras are striped members of the horse family that graze on the grasslands of eastern and southern Africa. They live in close family groups, travel long distances to find fresh grass and water, and every zebra\u0027s stripes are different.","path":"/discover/animals/plains-zebra","category":"mammals","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/plains-zebra-480.webp?v=0952f1bffe7bb55e","alt":"Plains zebra walking in the Kalahari Desert of Namibia","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:mammals","tag:savanna","tag:stripes","tag:migration","tag:near-threatened","habitat:african-savanna","habitat:grasslands","continent:africa","subgroup:hoofed","iucn:nt"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:platypus","kind":"animal","title":"Platypus","summary":"The platypus is one of the strangest mammals on Earth. It has a soft bill, webbed feet and a flat tail, lives in the rivers and streams of eastern Australia, finds food underwater with its eyes shut, and is one of the only mammals that lays eggs.","path":"/discover/animals/platypus","category":"mammals","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/platypus-480.webp?v=88a7a780fcb7113f","alt":"Duck-billed platypus , Scottsdale, TAS, Australia","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:mammals","tag:monotreme","tag:australia","tag:egg-laying-mammal","tag:rivers","tag:superpower","habitat:wetlands","continent:oceania","subgroup:monotreme","iucn:nt"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:polar-bear","kind":"animal","title":"Polar bear","summary":"The polar bear is a huge bear that lives on the frozen sea of the Arctic. Thick fur and a layer of fat keep it warm, its amazing nose finds seals under the snow, and it can swim for many hours. It needs sea ice to hunt, so a warming Arctic is a big problem for it.","path":"/discover/animals/polar-bear","category":"mammals","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/polar-bear-480.webp?v=9a5622b98655ab9b","alt":"Polar Bear jumping, in Spitsbergen Island, Svalbard, Norway","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:mammals","tag:arctic","tag:sea-ice","tag:vulnerable","tag:climate-change","tag:superpower","habitat:arctic","continent:north-america","continent:europe","continent:asia","subgroup:bear","iucn:vu"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:portuguese-man-o-war","kind":"animal","title":"Portuguese man o\u0027 war","summary":"The Portuguese man o\u0027 war is not a true jellyfish. It is a siphonophore: a colony of many tiny, identical animals, each with its own job. A gas-filled float with a crest catches the wind like a sail, while long stinging tentacles below catch fish.","path":"/discover/animals/portuguese-man-o-war","category":"invertebrates","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/portuguese-man-o-war-480.webp?v=877c6856834945e2","alt":"Photo of Portuguese man o\u0027 war","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:invertebrates","tag:cnidarian","tag:siphonophore","tag:ocean","tag:superpower","subgroup:cnidarian"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:proboscis-monkey","kind":"animal","title":"Proboscis monkey","summary":"The proboscis monkey is named for the grown-up male\u0027s huge, drooping nose. It lives only on Borneo, in forests along rivers, swamps and coasts. It eats mostly leaves and fruit, sleeps by the river every night and is a strong swimmer.","path":"/discover/animals/proboscis-monkey","category":"mammals","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/proboscis-monkey-480.webp?v=99987dd1f419a24c","alt":"Proboscis monkey male Labuk Bay, Sabah, Borneo, Malaysia","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:mammals","tag:monkey","tag:primate","tag:swimmer","tag:endangered","habitat:asian-rainforest","habitat:wetlands","continent:asia","subgroup:primate","iucn:en"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:puma","kind":"animal","title":"Puma","summary":"The puma, also called the cougar or mountain lion, is a big, slender cat with plain tan fur and a long tail. It lives in more of the Americas than any other wild cat, from Canada all the way to the southern tip of South America, in mountains, forests, deserts and swamps.","path":"/discover/animals/puma","category":"mammals","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/puma-480.webp?v=645392daf609c012","alt":"Puma female, Leona Amarga, Torres del Paine, Chile","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:mammals","has:3d","tag:big-cat","tag:mountains","tag:many-names","tag:least-concern","tag:americas","habitat:mountains","habitat:temperate-forest","habitat:desert","continent:north-america","continent:south-america","subgroup:big-cat","iucn:lc"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:purple-sea-urchin","kind":"animal","title":"Purple sea urchin","summary":"The purple sea urchin is a spiny, ball-shaped animal of North America\u0027s Pacific coast, up to about 10 centimeters across. It scrapes algae with a mouth of five teeth, walks on tiny tube feet, and can even carve a hollow in solid rock. Since 2014 its numbers have exploded in parts of California, and hungry urchins have eaten away large areas of kelp forest.","path":"/discover/animals/purple-sea-urchin","category":"invertebrates","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/purple-sea-urchin-480.webp?v=0eaa50d9cef44eed","alt":"Photo of Purple sea urchin","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:invertebrates","tag:echinoderm","tag:sea-urchin","tag:kelp-forest","tag:tide-pools","continent:north-america","subgroup:echinoderm"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:pygmy-hippopotamus","kind":"animal","title":"Pygmy hippopotamus","summary":"The pygmy hippopotamus is a small, shy relative of the common hippo. It lives alone in the swampy rainforests of West Africa, mostly in Liberia, rests in water by day and feeds on land at night. It is endangered, with fewer than 2,500 adults left.","path":"/discover/animals/pygmy-hippopotamus","category":"mammals","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/pygmy-hippopotamus-480.webp?v=b9ab7ee40f88f062","alt":"Here is a photo of a pygmy hippopotamus pair at the Mount Kenya Wildlife Conservancy","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:mammals","tag:rainforest","tag:endangered","tag:nocturnal","tag:west-africa","habitat:wetlands","continent:africa","subgroup:hoofed","iucn:en"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:queen-alexandras-birdwing","kind":"animal","title":"Queen Alexandra\u0027s birdwing","summary":"Queen Alexandra\u0027s birdwing is described by scientists as the largest butterfly in the world: a female\u0027s wings can stretch almost 25 centimeters across. It lives only in a small area of rainforest in Papua New Guinea, where its caterpillars eat pipevine plants. It is endangered and protected by law.","path":"/discover/animals/queen-alexandras-birdwing","category":"invertebrates","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/queen-alexandras-birdwing-480.webp?v=313a48b844915d83","alt":"A museum specimen of a male Queen Alexandra\u0027s birdwing with green, blue and black wings and a yellow body","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:invertebrates","tag:butterfly","tag:insect","tag:metamorphosis","tag:endangered","tag:rainforest","continent:oceania","subgroup:insect","iucn:en"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:quokka","kind":"animal","title":"Quokka","summary":"The quokka is one of the smallest wallabies, a cat-sized marsupial of south-western Australia. Most quokkas now live on two small islands, Rottnest and Bald Island, because foxes and land clearing made them rare on the mainland.","path":"/discover/animals/quokka","category":"mammals","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/quokka-480.webp?v=63698fcce1ce8f64","alt":"Quokka on Rottnest Island","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:mammals","tag:marsupial","tag:wallaby","tag:island","tag:vulnerable","continent:oceania","subgroup:marsupial","iucn:vu"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:rainbow-lorikeet","kind":"animal","title":"Rainbow lorikeet","summary":"The rainbow lorikeet is a colorful parrot of northern and eastern Australia. It feeds mostly on nectar and pollen, which it collects with a brush-tipped tongue. Noisy, fast-flying flocks are a common sight in forests, parks and gardens.","path":"/discover/animals/rainbow-lorikeet","category":"birds","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/rainbow-lorikeet-480.webp?v=2c9943ede3f18917","alt":"Rainbow Lorikeet in Brisbane, Queensland","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:birds","tag:parrot","tag:nectar","tag:australia","tag:pollinator","habitat:temperate-forest","continent:oceania","subgroup:parrot","iucn:lc"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:rainbow-trout","kind":"animal","title":"Rainbow trout","summary":"The rainbow trout gets its name from the pink-red band along each side. It comes from the cool rivers and lakes of western North America and far eastern Russia. Some rainbows stay in fresh water all their lives, while others, called steelhead, swim out to the ocean and come back to spawn.","path":"/discover/animals/rainbow-trout","category":"fish","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/rainbow-trout-480.webp?v=84138e9adad827e8","alt":"Photo of Rainbow trout","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:fish","tag:trout","tag:rivers","tag:lakes","tag:steelhead","tag:fishing","habitat:mountains","continent:north-america","continent:asia","subgroup:freshwater-fish","iucn:lc"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:red-deer","kind":"animal","title":"Red deer","summary":"The red deer is one of the largest deer in the world. It lives in forests, hills and moors across Europe and into western Asia and North Africa. Males, called stags, grow huge branching antlers every year and roar to win mates in autumn.","path":"/discover/animals/red-deer","category":"mammals","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/red-deer-480.webp?v=db9c687cd2bfc865","alt":"Red deer hind, Glen Garry, Highland","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:mammals","tag:europe","tag:antlers","tag:woodland","tag:rut","habitat:temperate-forest","habitat:mountains","continent:europe","continent:asia","continent:africa","subgroup:hoofed","has:sound","iucn:lc"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:red-fox","kind":"animal","title":"Red fox","summary":"The red fox is a small, clever member of the dog family with an orange coat, black legs and a bushy, white-tipped tail. It lives across North America, Europe, Asia and North Africa, more of the world than any other wild land carnivore, and has even moved into big cities.","path":"/discover/animals/red-fox","category":"mammals","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/red-fox-480.webp?v=5458f60a7495f14e","alt":"Red fox , Skalnat\u00E9 Pleso, Vysok\u00E9 Tatry, Slovakia","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:mammals","tag:dog-family","tag:towns-and-gardens","tag:pounce","tag:least-concern","tag:widespread","habitat:temperate-forest","habitat:grasslands","continent:north-america","continent:europe","continent:asia","continent:africa","continent:oceania","subgroup:dog-family","has:sound","iucn:lc"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:red-kangaroo","kind":"animal","title":"Red kangaroo","summary":"The red kangaroo is the largest marsupial in the world, an animal whose babies grow up in a pouch. It lives on the dry plains of inland Australia, hops on powerful back legs that work like springs, and can get most of the water it needs from the plants it eats.","path":"/discover/animals/red-kangaroo","category":"mammals","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/red-kangaroo-480.webp?v=c2a5440337b1d3b2","alt":"One adult and one young Red Kangaroo at Sturt National Park NSW","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:mammals","tag:marsupial","tag:australia","tag:outback","tag:hopping","tag:superpower","habitat:desert","habitat:grasslands","continent:oceania","subgroup:marsupial","iucn:lc"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:red-lionfish","kind":"animal","title":"Red lionfish","summary":"The red lionfish is a striped reef fish with long, spiny fins that spread out like a lion\u0027s mane. It comes from the Pacific and eastern Indian Oceans, where it hunts small fish and shrimp at night. People released lionfish into the Atlantic Ocean, and there they have spread fast, eating many native reef fish.","path":"/discover/animals/red-lionfish","category":"fish","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/red-lionfish-480.webp?v=3e7686bf8e109eef","alt":"Red lionfish at the Aquazoo in the Zoo Schmiding in Schmiding near Bad Schallerbach, Austria","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:fish","tag:coral-reef","tag:venomous","tag:invasive","tag:striped","habitat:coral-reef","subgroup:reef-fish","iucn:lc"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:red-panda","kind":"animal","title":"Red panda","summary":"The red panda is a cat-sized tree climber with rusty-red fur and a bushy ringed tail. It lives in cool mountain forests of the Himalayas and southern China and eats mostly bamboo leaves. Despite its name, it is not a close relative of the giant panda. It is endangered.","path":"/discover/animals/red-panda","category":"mammals","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/red-panda-480.webp?v=fe30b18c2064d919","alt":"Red panda in the zoologic park of de Lisieux","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:mammals","has:3d","tag:mountains","tag:himalayas","tag:bamboo","tag:endangered","tag:tree-climber","habitat:mountains","habitat:temperate-forest","continent:asia","subgroup:carnivore","has:sound","iucn:en"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:red-squirrel","kind":"animal","title":"Red squirrel","summary":"Red squirrels are small tree squirrels from the forests of Europe and northern Asia. Their fur can be ginger, brown or even black, and in winter they grow long ear tufts. In Britain they have become rare since people brought gray squirrels from North America.","path":"/discover/animals/red-squirrel","category":"mammals","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/red-squirrel-480.webp?v=8040fcfa3145f5d8","alt":"Red squirrel black variant, Meidling Cemetery, Vienna, Austria","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:mammals","tag:forest","tag:rodents","tag:tree-climbers","habitat:temperate-forest","continent:europe","continent:asia","subgroup:rodent-and-rabbit","iucn:lc"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:red-swamp-crayfish","kind":"animal","title":"Red swamp crayfish","summary":"The red swamp crayfish is a dark red freshwater crustacean with long claws covered in bright red bumps. It comes from the swamps and streams of the southern United States and northern Mexico, where it digs burrows in the mud. People have carried it around the world for food, and in many new places it harms the plants and animals that already live there.","path":"/discover/animals/red-swamp-crayfish","category":"invertebrates","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/red-swamp-crayfish-480.webp?v=e39aa9bec48192c3","alt":"Photo of Red swamp crayfish","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:invertebrates","has:3d","tag:crayfish","tag:crustacean","tag:freshwater","tag:invasive","tag:burrow","habitat:wetlands","continent:north-america","subgroup:crustacean","iucn:lc"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:red-bellied-piranha","kind":"animal","title":"Red-bellied piranha","summary":"The red-bellied piranha is a silver fish with a red belly that lives in rivers, creeks and floodplain ponds of South America. It has a famous reputation, but experts say the danger to people is greatly exaggerated: piranhas mostly eat fish, insects, snails and plants.","path":"/discover/animals/red-bellied-piranha","category":"fish","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/red-bellied-piranha-480.webp?v=0f0d5f7ddf4003d8","alt":"Photo of Red-bellied piranha","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:fish","tag:amazon","tag:freshwater","tag:schooling","habitat:amazon-rainforest","habitat:wetlands","continent:south-america","subgroup:freshwater-fish"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:red-crowned-crane","kind":"animal","title":"Red-crowned crane","summary":"The red-crowned crane is one of the world\u0027s largest cranes, white with a black neck and a bright red crown. Pairs bow, bob and leap in a courtship dance. It nests in wetlands of eastern Russia, China and Japan, and it is Vulnerable because those wetlands are disappearing.","path":"/discover/animals/red-crowned-crane","category":"birds","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/red-crowned-crane-480.webp?v=89c70be6ee8fbb0f","alt":"Red-crowned Crane in Japan","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:birds","tag:crane","tag:wetlands","tag:dancing","tag:vulnerable","tag:east-asia","tag:snow","habitat:wetlands","continent:asia","subgroup:waterbird","has:journey","iucn:vu"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:red-eared-slider","kind":"animal","title":"Red-eared slider","summary":"The red-eared slider is a freshwater turtle from the central United States and northeastern Mexico, named for the red stripe behind each eye. It basks on logs, swims with webbed feet and eats both plants and small animals. Because so many were sold as pets and later let go, sliders now live wild in many other countries too, where they can harm native turtles.","path":"/discover/animals/red-eared-slider","category":"reptiles","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/red-eared-slider-480.webp?v=2020e6442bee3492","alt":"Photo of Red-eared slider","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:reptiles","has:3d","tag:freshwater-turtle","tag:basking","tag:pet-trade","tag:introduced-species","habitat:wetlands","continent:north-america","subgroup:turtle"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:red-eyed-tree-frog","kind":"animal","title":"Red-eyed tree frog","summary":"The red-eyed tree frog lives in the rainforests of Central America. By day it sleeps folded up on a leaf, looking plain green. When something disturbs it, it flashes huge red eyes, orange feet and blue-and-yellow sides.","path":"/discover/animals/red-eyed-tree-frog","category":"amphibians","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/red-eyed-tree-frog-480.webp?v=d1ee441f8f302eb7","alt":"Red-eyed Tree Frog , photographed near Playa Jaco in Costa Rica","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:amphibians","tag:rainforest","tag:nocturnal","tag:frog","tag:startle-colors","continent:north-america","continent:south-america","subgroup:frog","iucn:lc"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:red-tailed-hawk","kind":"animal","title":"Red-tailed hawk","summary":"The red-tailed hawk is probably the most common hawk in North America. It soars in wide circles over fields or waits on a pole or fence post, watching for voles, mice and rabbits, then drops down to catch them with its sharp talons.","path":"/discover/animals/red-tailed-hawk","category":"birds","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/red-tailed-hawk-480.webp?v=d89b8fac5e93809b","alt":"W:Red tailed hawk","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:birds","has:3d","tag:bird-of-prey","tag:raptor","tag:hawk","tag:open-country","tag:common","habitat:grasslands","habitat:temperate-forest","continent:north-america","subgroup:raptor","has:sound","iucn:lc"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:reef-stonefish","kind":"animal","title":"Reef stonefish","summary":"The reef stonefish is a master of disguise. Its lumpy, warty skin and rocky colors make it look like a stone or a piece of coral on the sea floor. It waits without moving until a small fish or shrimp comes near, then gulps it in a flash. Sharp spines on its back protect it from enemies.","path":"/discover/animals/reef-stonefish","category":"fish","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/reef-stonefish-480.webp?v=6497c86723c8ec3b","alt":"Photo of Reef stonefish","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:fish","has:3d","tag:camouflage","tag:coral-reef","tag:venomous","tag:ambush","habitat:coral-reef","subgroup:reef-fish","iucn:lc"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:reindeer","kind":"animal","title":"Reindeer","summary":"Reindeer, called caribou in North America, are deer of the Arctic tundra and northern forests. They are the only deer in which females grow antlers too. Some herds walk thousands of kilometers a year, and people in northern Europe and Asia have herded reindeer for a very long time.","path":"/discover/animals/reindeer","category":"mammals","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/reindeer-480.webp?v=8d4a57c233121621","alt":"Photo of Reindeer","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:mammals","has:3d","tag:arctic","tag:deer","tag:migration","tag:vulnerable","habitat:arctic","habitat:mountains","continent:north-america","continent:europe","continent:asia","subgroup:hoofed","iucn:vu"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:resplendent-quetzal","kind":"animal","title":"Resplendent quetzal","summary":"The resplendent quetzal is a glittering green and red bird of the cloud forests of southern Mexico and Central America. Males grow long, flowing plumes, up to about 90 centimeters. Quetzals eat mostly small fruits related to avocados, and the bird is the national emblem of Guatemala.","path":"/discover/animals/resplendent-quetzal","category":"birds","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/resplendent-quetzal-480.webp?v=01e589d24018bffc","alt":"Male Resplendent quetzal in Los Quetzales National Park, Costa Rica","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:birds","tag:cloud-forest","tag:colorful","tag:near-threatened","tag:fruit-eater","tag:national-bird","habitat:mountains","continent:north-america","subgroup:tropical","has:sound","iucn:nt"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:reticulated-python","kind":"animal","title":"Reticulated python","summary":"The reticulated python lives in the forests, riversides and even towns of Southeast Asia. It can grow longer than any other kind of snake, it is covered in a net-like pattern, and it is such a good swimmer that it has reached many small islands across the sea.","path":"/discover/animals/reticulated-python","category":"reptiles","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/reticulated-python-480.webp?v=3b09a55cab4c633b","alt":"Dikenal juga sebagai sanca kembang atau sanca batik dan masuk ke dalam familia Pythonidae","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:reptiles","tag:snake","tag:constrictor","tag:giant","tag:rainforest","tag:swimmer","habitat:asian-rainforest","habitat:wetlands","continent:asia","subgroup:snake","iucn:lc"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:ring-tailed-lemur","kind":"animal","title":"Ring-tailed lemur","summary":"The ring-tailed lemur is a primate that lives only on Madagascar, a big island off the coast of Africa. It has a striped tail with 13 black and white rings, sunbathes with its arms spread wide, and lives in groups where the females are in charge.","path":"/discover/animals/ring-tailed-lemur","category":"mammals","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/ring-tailed-lemur-480.webp?v=4a42491c798c0ec3","alt":"Ring-tailed lemur , Anja Community Reserve, Madagascar","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:mammals","has:3d","tag:primate","tag:madagascar","tag:island","tag:endangered","habitat:desert","continent:africa","subgroup:primate","has:sound","iucn:en"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:rock-pigeon","kind":"animal","title":"Rock pigeon","summary":"The rock pigeon, also called the rock dove, is the pigeon you see in city squares. Its wild ancestors nest on sea cliffs and mountain ledges, and city pigeons use buildings as if they were cliffs. Pigeons are famous for finding their way home from far away.","path":"/discover/animals/rock-pigeon","category":"birds","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/rock-pigeon-480.webp?v=1dd4e93f328fe0a0","alt":"Rock Dove Columba livia, Duncansby Head, Caithness, Scotland","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:birds","has:3d","tag:pigeon","tag:city-birds","tag:cliffs","tag:homing","habitat:mountains","continent:africa","continent:asia","continent:europe","continent:north-america","continent:south-america","continent:oceania","subgroup:pigeon","has:sound","iucn:lc"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:roseate-spoonbill","kind":"animal","title":"Roseate spoonbill","summary":"The roseate spoonbill is a bright pink wading bird with a long, flat bill shaped like a spoon. It sweeps its bill from side to side through shallow water and grabs the shrimp or small fish it feels. Its pink color comes from the food it eats.","path":"/discover/animals/roseate-spoonbill","category":"birds","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/roseate-spoonbill-480.webp?v=caeca8286e520a79","alt":"Roseate spoonbill in Parque Estadual Encontro das \u00C1guas, Brazil","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:birds","has:3d","tag:wading-birds","tag:wetlands","tag:pink","tag:superpower","habitat:wetlands","continent:north-america","continent:south-america","subgroup:waterbird","iucn:lc"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:ruby-throated-hummingbird","kind":"animal","title":"Ruby-throated hummingbird","summary":"The ruby-throated hummingbird is the only hummingbird that nests in eastern North America. It weighs only 2 to 6 grams, beats its wings about 53 times a second and can fly forward, backward and hover in one spot. Each fall it flies south to Mexico and Central America for the winter.","path":"/discover/animals/ruby-throated-hummingbird","category":"birds","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/ruby-throated-hummingbird-480.webp?v=984271896b50509a","alt":"Male ruby-throated hummingbird guarding his territory from the top of a tomato stake","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:birds","has:3d","tag:hummingbird","tag:migration","tag:nectar","tag:hovering","habitat:temperate-forest","continent:north-america","subgroup:hummingbird","has:sound","has:journey","iucn:lc"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:saiga-antelope","kind":"animal","title":"Saiga antelope","summary":"The saiga antelope is a goat-sized antelope with an amazing floppy nose. Huge herds roam the dry steppes of Central Asia. Saigas were once nearly wiped out by hunting, but thanks to protection there are now more than a million.","path":"/discover/animals/saiga-antelope","category":"mammals","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/saiga-antelope-480.webp?v=555042e3a978b750","alt":"Russian Saiga in Russia","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:mammals","has:3d","tag:antelopes","tag:grasslands","tag:migration","tag:comeback","habitat:grasslands","habitat:desert","continent:asia","continent:europe","subgroup:hoofed","has:journey","iucn:nt"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:saltwater-crocodile","kind":"animal","title":"Saltwater crocodile","summary":"The saltwater crocodile is the largest reptile alive today. It lives in rivers, swamps and estuaries from India to northern Australia, can cope with fresh water and seawater, and sometimes swims far out across the open ocean to reach distant islands.","path":"/discover/animals/saltwater-crocodile","category":"reptiles","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/saltwater-crocodile-480.webp?v=7ae6be14c2711812","alt":"Saltwater Crocodile This is Maximo, a 15\u0027\u002B crocodile at the St","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:reptiles","tag:crocodilian","tag:largest-reptile","tag:estuaries","tag:ocean-traveler","tag:record-breaker","habitat:wetlands","continent:asia","continent:oceania","subgroup:crocodilian","iucn:lc"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:sand-cat","kind":"animal","title":"Sand cat","summary":"The sand cat is a small wild cat of the deserts of North Africa, Arabia and Central Asia. Its sandy coat hides it on the dunes, its big ears hear prey moving under the sand, and thick fur on the soles of its feet protects it from scorching days and freezing nights.","path":"/discover/animals/sand-cat","category":"mammals","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/sand-cat-480.webp?v=5c13f15c0e0ef3b7","alt":"A sand cat standing on reddish sand beside a log","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:mammals","tag:cats","tag:desert","tag:small-cats","tag:superpower","habitat:desert","continent:africa","continent:asia","subgroup:small-cat","iucn:lc"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:santa-cruz-giant-tortoise","kind":"animal","title":"Santa Cruz giant tortoise","summary":"The Santa Cruz giant tortoise lives only on the western side of Santa Cruz Island in the Gal\u00E1pagos. It has a big, dome-shaped shell, eats grass, leaves and cactus, walks between the dry lowlands and the misty highlands, and can live for well over a century.","path":"/discover/animals/santa-cruz-giant-tortoise","category":"reptiles","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/santa-cruz-giant-tortoise-480.webp?v=5fcf3bc1df0285cd","alt":"Santa Cruz Island Giant Tortoise","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:reptiles","tag:galapagos","tag:island","tag:giant","tag:long-lived","tag:critically-endangered","habitat:grasslands","continent:south-america","subgroup:turtle","iucn:cr"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:scalloped-hammerhead-shark","kind":"animal","title":"Scalloped hammerhead","summary":"The scalloped hammerhead is a large shark with a wide, flat head shaped like a hammer, with wavy notches along the front edge. It lives in warm coastal seas around the world, gathers in big schools, and hunts fish and squid. It is now critically endangered because so many are caught.","path":"/discover/animals/scalloped-hammerhead-shark","category":"fish","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/scalloped-hammerhead-shark-480.webp?v=f86d98798e268fc5","alt":"Photo of Scalloped hammerhead","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:fish","has:3d","tag:shark","tag:ocean","tag:schools","tag:critically-endangered","subgroup:shark","iucn:cr"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:scarlet-ibis","kind":"animal","title":"Scarlet ibis","summary":"The scarlet ibis is a bright red wading bird of South America, red all over except for black wingtips. It probes mud and shallow water with its long, curved bill for crabs, crayfish and insects, and its color comes from pigments in its food.","path":"/discover/animals/scarlet-ibis","category":"birds","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/scarlet-ibis-480.webp?v=a781d67b37ace511","alt":"Photo of Scarlet ibis","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:birds","tag:ibis","tag:wading-bird","tag:wetlands","tag:mangroves","tag:colorful","tag:south-america","habitat:wetlands","continent:south-america","subgroup:waterbird","iucn:lc"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:scarlet-macaw","kind":"animal","title":"Scarlet macaw","summary":"The scarlet macaw is a large parrot of the rainforests of Mexico, Central America and South America. It is famous for its bright red, yellow and blue feathers. It cracks hard nuts with its powerful beak, flies in noisy flocks and stays with one mate for life.","path":"/discover/animals/scarlet-macaw","category":"birds","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/scarlet-macaw-480.webp?v=b243a7e358a1f486","alt":"Scarlet macaw Copan, Honduras","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:birds","has:3d","tag:parrot","tag:rainforest","tag:colorful","tag:pet-trade","habitat:amazon-rainforest","continent:south-america","continent:north-america","subgroup:parrot","has:sound","iucn:lc"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:sea-otter","kind":"animal","title":"Sea otter","summary":"The sea otter is a marine mammal of the North Pacific coast that spends almost its whole life in the water. It has the thickest fur of any animal, floats on its back to eat, and even uses rocks as tools. By eating sea urchins, sea otters help kelp forests stay healthy.","path":"/discover/animals/sea-otter","category":"mammals","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/sea-otter-480.webp?v=3f6fbd6bc03bc763","alt":"Sea Otter mother with nursing pup in the Morro Bay harbor, Morro Bay, CA","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:mammals","tag:ocean","tag:kelp-forest","tag:tool-user","tag:keystone-species","tag:endangered","continent:north-america","continent:asia","subgroup:carnivore","iucn:en"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:secretarybird","kind":"animal","title":"Secretarybird","summary":"The secretarybird is a bird of prey that hunts on foot. It strides across the African savanna on the longest legs of any raptor, walking 20 to 30 kilometers a day, and stamps on grasshoppers, mice, lizards and even snakes with lightning-fast kicks.","path":"/discover/animals/secretarybird","category":"birds","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/secretarybird-480.webp?v=b97067d4ce493a1e","alt":"Secretarybird , Amboseli National Park, Kenya","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:birds","tag:bird-of-prey","tag:raptor","tag:savanna","tag:long-legs","tag:endangered","habitat:african-savanna","habitat:grasslands","continent:africa","subgroup:raptor","iucn:en"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:serval","kind":"animal","title":"Serval","summary":"The serval is a slender wild cat of African grasslands and wetlands. Its huge ears can hear mice moving in tall grass, and its long legs let it leap high into the air to pounce on them or snatch a bird.","path":"/discover/animals/serval","category":"mammals","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/serval-480.webp?v=0aeae43567967e59","alt":"Portrait of a serval , Tarangire National Park, Tanzania","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:mammals","has:3d","tag:cats","tag:savanna","tag:wetlands","tag:superpower","habitat:african-savanna","habitat:wetlands","habitat:grasslands","continent:africa","subgroup:small-cat","has:sound","iucn:lc"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:ladybug","kind":"animal","title":"Seven-spot ladybird","summary":"The seven-spot ladybird, or ladybug, is a domed red beetle with seven black spots. Both the young and the adults hunt aphids, small insects that suck plant juices, so gardeners and farmers are glad to see them. Its bright colors warn predators that it tastes horrible.","path":"/discover/animals/ladybug","category":"invertebrates","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/ladybug-480.webp?v=96fb0dacf73a7a74","alt":"Photo of Seven-spot ladybird","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:invertebrates","has:3d","tag:insect","tag:beetle","tag:garden-helper","tag:diurnal","tag:metamorphosis","habitat:grasslands","continent:europe","continent:asia","continent:north-america","subgroup:insect"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:shoebill","kind":"animal","title":"Shoebill","summary":"The shoebill is a tall gray bird of African swamps, named for its enormous bill shaped like a wooden shoe. It stands as still as a statue among the papyrus, then lunges forward to grab big, slippery fish such as lungfish.","path":"/discover/animals/shoebill","category":"birds","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/shoebill-480.webp?v=2bd53a72e838d621","alt":"Shoebill in the Walsrode Bird Park, Germany","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:birds","tag:wading-bird","tag:wetlands","tag:swamps","tag:vulnerable","tag:africa","habitat:wetlands","continent:africa","subgroup:waterbird","iucn:vu"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:short-beaked-common-dolphin","kind":"animal","title":"Short-beaked common dolphin","summary":"The short-beaked common dolphin is one of the most numerous dolphins in the world. It lives in warm and cool seas around the globe, travels in groups of hundreds or even thousands, and is famous for leaping and riding the waves in front of boats.","path":"/discover/animals/short-beaked-common-dolphin","category":"mammals","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/short-beaked-common-dolphin-480.webp?v=3cc07c9755e59b42","alt":"Photo of Short-beaked common dolphin","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:mammals","has:3d","tag:dolphins","tag:ocean","tag:social","tag:superpower","subgroup:marine-mammal","iucn:lc"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:short-beaked-echidna","kind":"animal","title":"Short-beaked echidna","summary":"The short-beaked echidna is a spiny mammal that lays eggs. It lives all over Australia and in parts of New Guinea, digs into ant and termite nests with strong claws, and licks up the insects with a long, sticky tongue. It has no teeth at all.","path":"/discover/animals/short-beaked-echidna","category":"mammals","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/short-beaked-echidna-480.webp?v=e0aa5c3c4a62c80a","alt":"Short-beaked echidna , near Scottsdale, TAS, Australia","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:mammals","tag:monotreme","tag:egg-laying-mammal","tag:australia","tag:spines","habitat:temperate-forest","habitat:desert","continent:oceania","subgroup:monotreme","iucn:lc"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:shortfin-mako-shark","kind":"animal","title":"Shortfin mako shark","summary":"The shortfin mako is a sleek, metallic-blue shark that roams warm and mild oceans all over the world. Scientists call it the fastest shark: it can sprint at up to about 70 kilometers an hour and even leap out of the water. It hunts fast fish such as tuna and swordfish, and it is now endangered.","path":"/discover/animals/shortfin-mako-shark","category":"fish","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/shortfin-mako-shark-480.webp?v=d69e4653520631ea","alt":"Shortfin mako shark","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:fish","has:3d","tag:shark","tag:open-ocean","tag:speed","tag:endangered","subgroup:shark","iucn:en"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:siamese-fighting-fish","kind":"animal","title":"Siamese fighting fish","summary":"The Siamese fighting fish, often called the betta, is a small freshwater fish from shallow, warm waters in Thailand. It can breathe air with a special organ, and males build nests of bubbles for their eggs. People have bred bettas for many centuries, giving pet bettas their bright colors and long fins.","path":"/discover/animals/siamese-fighting-fish","category":"fish","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/siamese-fighting-fish-480.webp?v=a812c988ef1f1576","alt":"Aquarium fish, Siamese fighting fish, also great fighting fish","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:fish","has:3d","tag:freshwater","tag:pet","tag:domesticated","tag:air-breather","tag:vulnerable","habitat:wetlands","continent:asia","subgroup:freshwater-fish","has:domestic","iucn:vu"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:sloth-bear","kind":"animal","title":"Sloth bear","summary":"The sloth bear is a shaggy, black bear of the forests and grasslands of India, Nepal and Sri Lanka. It is a bear that specializes in eating termites and ants: it digs open their nests with long claws and sucks them up through a gap in its front teeth. Mother sloth bears carry their cubs on their backs.","path":"/discover/animals/sloth-bear","category":"mammals","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/sloth-bear-480.webp?v=1e5ac358a0d892e7","alt":"Sri Lankan sloth bear male, Yala National Park, Sri Lanka","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:mammals","tag:bears","tag:forests","tag:insect-eater","tag:vulnerable","habitat:asian-rainforest","habitat:grasslands","continent:asia","subgroup:bear","iucn:vu"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:smalltooth-sawfish","kind":"animal","title":"Smalltooth sawfish","summary":"The smalltooth sawfish is a giant ray with a shark-like body and a long, flat snout edged with teeth, called a rostrum or saw. It swings the saw to stun fish and uses it to sense their tiny electric signals. Young sawfish grow up among mangroves. Once found on both sides of the Atlantic, it is now Critically Endangered.","path":"/discover/animals/smalltooth-sawfish","category":"fish","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/smalltooth-sawfish-480.webp?v=51878e88112a8b24","alt":"Pristis pectinata Latham, 1794 - smalltooth sawfish","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:fish","tag:ray","tag:sawfish","tag:mangroves","tag:critically-endangered","habitat:wetlands","subgroup:ray","iucn:cr"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:blobfish","kind":"animal","title":"Smooth-head blobfish","summary":"The smooth-head blobfish lives on the deep sea floor off southern Australia, 600 to 1,200 meters down, where the water pushes in hard from every side. Its body is soft, with loose skin and no scales. In the deep, the water pressure helps hold it in shape, so it looks like a fish. Pulled up to the surface, that pressure is gone and its body sags, which is why photos look so \u0027blobby\u0027.","path":"/discover/animals/blobfish","category":"fish","image":null,"alt":null,"at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:fish","tag:deep-sea","tag:pressure","tag:australia","tag:misunderstood","habitat:deep-ocean","continent:oceania","subgroup:deep-sea-fish"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:snow-leopard","kind":"animal","title":"Snow leopard","summary":"The snow leopard lives high in the mountains of Central Asia, where it is freezing cold and the ground is steep and rocky. Thick fur, huge furry paws and a tail almost as long as its body help it survive. It is so hard to spot that people call it the ghost cat of the mountains.","path":"/discover/animals/snow-leopard","category":"mammals","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/snow-leopard-480.webp?v=c2e5ab6ee954a443","alt":"Snow leopard in \u00C4ht\u00E4ri Zoo","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:mammals","tag:big-cat","tag:mountains","tag:cold","tag:vulnerable","tag:superpower","habitat:mountains","continent:asia","subgroup:big-cat","iucn:vu"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:snowy-owl","kind":"animal","title":"Snowy owl","summary":"The snowy owl is a large white owl that nests on the Arctic tundra. Unlike most owls it hunts in daylight, and in the endless light of an Arctic summer it may hunt at any hour. Lemmings are its favorite food.","path":"/discover/animals/snowy-owl","category":"birds","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/snowy-owl-480.webp?v=29933a0dda59aae2","alt":"Snowy owl at Vlieland, Netherlands","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:birds","tag:owl","tag:arctic","tag:tundra","tag:daytime-hunter","tag:vulnerable","habitat:arctic","habitat:grasslands","continent:north-america","continent:europe","continent:asia","subgroup:owl","has:journey","iucn:vu"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:sociable-weaver","kind":"animal","title":"Sociable weaver","summary":"The sociable weaver is a sparrow-sized bird of the dry savannas of southern Africa. Whole colonies, sometimes hundreds of birds, build and share one enormous thatched nest with many separate rooms. It is among the largest nests built by any bird.","path":"/discover/animals/sociable-weaver","category":"birds","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/sociable-weaver-480.webp?v=45f7b79a1a067dcd","alt":"Sociable weaver , Tswalu Kalahari Reserve, South Africa","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:birds","tag:builder","tag:colony","tag:family-helpers","tag:kalahari","habitat:african-savanna","habitat:desert","continent:africa","subgroup:songbird","iucn:lc"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:sockeye-salmon","kind":"animal","title":"Sockeye salmon","summary":"The sockeye salmon is a Pacific salmon that usually grows up in a lake, spends a few years in the North Pacific Ocean, and then returns to the place it hatched to lay its eggs. On the way home it turns bright red with a green head.","path":"/discover/animals/sockeye-salmon","category":"fish","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/sockeye-salmon-480.webp?v=ac4d043d32e11a72","alt":"Beautiful kokanee salmon seen in Ebright Creek, just 12 miles from downtown Seattle, Nov","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:fish","has:3d","tag:migration","tag:rivers","tag:lakes","tag:ocean","tag:superpower","continent:north-america","continent:asia","subgroup:freshwater-fish","iucn:lc"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:southern-cassowary","kind":"animal","title":"Southern cassowary","summary":"The southern cassowary is a large flightless bird of the rainforests of northern Australia and New Guinea. It has a vivid blue neck, red wattles and a tall helmet called a casque. By eating fallen fruit and spreading the seeds in its droppings, it helps the rainforest grow. Cassowaries are wild and strong, so people watch them from a safe distance.","path":"/discover/animals/southern-cassowary","category":"birds","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/southern-cassowary-480.webp?v=72bbd87b27c28d97","alt":"Southern Cassowary in Australia","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:birds","has:3d","tag:flightless","tag:rainforest","tag:australia","tag:seed-disperser","tag:casque","continent:oceania","subgroup:flightless","iucn:lc"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:southern-crested-caracara","kind":"animal","title":"Southern crested caracara","summary":"The southern crested caracara is a large bird of prey from South America and a surprising member of the falcon family. It has a black crest, a bare orange-red face and long yellow legs, and it eats almost anything: dead animals, small creatures and insects.","path":"/discover/animals/southern-crested-caracara","category":"birds","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/southern-crested-caracara-480.webp?v=a11e2317c92461e7","alt":"Crested caracara , Parque Nacional Los Glaciares, Santa Cruz, Argentina","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:birds","has:3d","tag:birds-of-prey","tag:falcons","tag:grasslands","tag:clever","habitat:grasslands","continent:south-america","subgroup:raptor","iucn:lc"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:southern-stingray","kind":"animal","title":"Southern stingray","summary":"The southern stingray is a flat, diamond-shaped ray of warm western Atlantic waters, from the eastern United States through the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean to South America. It spends much of its time on sandy bottoms, finding buried crabs, shrimp and fish by smell, touch and tiny electric signals.","path":"/discover/animals/southern-stingray","category":"fish","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/southern-stingray-480.webp?v=46ec987bbdec957b","alt":"A wild southern stingray swimming over sand and seagrass off St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:fish","tag:ray","tag:ocean","tag:sand","tag:coral-reef","habitat:coral-reef","subgroup:ray","iucn:nt"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:spectacled-bear","kind":"animal","title":"Spectacled bear","summary":"The spectacled bear, or Andean bear, is the only bear that lives in South America. It is named for the pale markings that ring the eyes of many bears, like a pair of glasses. It lives in the forests of the Andes Mountains, climbs trees, builds platforms in branches and eats mostly fruit and bromeliads.","path":"/discover/animals/spectacled-bear","category":"mammals","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/spectacled-bear-480.webp?v=6c1dd6db68ce1557","alt":"Photo of Spectacled bear","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:mammals","tag:bear","tag:mountains","tag:climber","tag:nocturnal","tag:vulnerable","habitat:mountains","continent:south-america","subgroup:bear","iucn:vu"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:sperm-whale","kind":"animal","title":"Sperm whale","summary":"The sperm whale is the biggest whale with teeth. Its huge, boxy head is about a third of its body, it dives deep into the dark ocean to hunt squid, and it makes the loudest sounds of any animal.","path":"/discover/animals/sperm-whale","category":"mammals","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/sperm-whale-480.webp?v=438c6776963712a4","alt":"A mother sperm whale and her calf off the coast of Mauritius","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:mammals","tag:ocean","tag:marine-mammal","tag:deep-diver","tag:echolocation","tag:superpower","habitat:deep-ocean","subgroup:marine-mammal","has:sound","iucn:vu"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:porcupinefish","kind":"animal","title":"Spot-fin porcupinefish","summary":"The spot-fin porcupinefish is a spiny relative of the pufferfish that lives on warm reefs all around the world. Its spines usually lie flat, but when it is threatened it swallows water and swells into a prickly ball. At night it uses a strong, beak-like mouth to crack open snails, hermit crabs and sea urchins.","path":"/discover/animals/porcupinefish","category":"fish","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/porcupinefish-480.webp?v=f7fbc7ed17d778b1","alt":"Spot-fin porcupinefish , Ad Dimaniyat Islands, Oman","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:fish","tag:coral-reef","tag:spines","tag:puffs-up","tag:nocturnal","habitat:coral-reef","subgroup:reef-fish","iucn:lc"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:spotted-eagle-ray","kind":"animal","title":"Spotted eagle ray","summary":"The spotted eagle ray is a ray that \u0027flies\u0027 through warm Atlantic waters by flapping its wide, wing-like fins. Its dark back is covered in white spots, its tail is long and whip-like, and its snout looks a bit like a duck\u0027s bill, which it uses to dig for clams and other shellfish.","path":"/discover/animals/spotted-eagle-ray","category":"fish","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/spotted-eagle-ray-480.webp?v=280578aa1ab8b0d0","alt":"A spotted eagle ray swimming over a coral reef off Providenciales, Turks and Caicos","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:fish","has:3d","tag:ray","tag:coral-reef","tag:spots","tag:endangered","habitat:coral-reef","subgroup:ray","iucn:en"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:spotted-hyena","kind":"animal","title":"Spotted hyena","summary":"The spotted hyena is the largest of the hyenas and a skilled hunter of the African savanna. Many people think hyenas only eat leftovers, but in East and Southern Africa they catch most of their own food. They live in big clans led by females, and they whoop, groan and \u0027giggle\u0027 to talk.","path":"/discover/animals/spotted-hyena","category":"mammals","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/spotted-hyena-480.webp?v=0016650be693c43f","alt":"Spotted hyena , Tarangire National Park, Tanzania","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:mammals","has:3d","tag:hyena","tag:clan","tag:nocturnal","tag:least-concern","tag:misunderstood","habitat:african-savanna","continent:africa","subgroup:carnivore","has:sound","iucn:lc"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:spring-peeper","kind":"animal","title":"Spring peeper","summary":"The spring peeper is a tiny treefrog of eastern North America, about as long as a quarter is wide, with a dark X-shaped mark on its back. Early each spring, hundreds of males gather at small ponds and fill the night with high \u0022peep\u0022 calls, one of the first signs that winter is over.","path":"/discover/animals/spring-peeper","category":"amphibians","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/spring-peeper-480.webp?v=a06ce9bb2d1ba053","alt":"Pseudacris crucifer, also known by its English name Spring peeper","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:amphibians","tag:frog","tag:treefrog","tag:chorus","tag:wetlands","tag:north-america","habitat:wetlands","habitat:temperate-forest","continent:north-america","subgroup:frog","iucn:lc"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:staghorn-coral","kind":"animal","title":"Staghorn coral","summary":"Staghorn coral is a reef-building coral of Florida, the Bahamas and the Caribbean. Each colony is made of many tiny polyps that build a branching skeleton like a stag\u0027s antlers, and tiny algae living inside them give it food and color. Once one of the most common Caribbean corals, it is now critically endangered.","path":"/discover/animals/staghorn-coral","category":"invertebrates","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/staghorn-coral-480.webp?v=0ca76483144263fc","alt":"Photo of Staghorn coral","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:invertebrates","tag:cnidarian","tag:coral","tag:coral-reef","tag:critically-endangered","habitat:coral-reef","subgroup:cnidarian","iucn:cr"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:stellers-sea-eagle","kind":"animal","title":"Steller\u0027s sea eagle","summary":"Steller\u0027s sea eagle is one of the largest sea and fish eagles. Dark brown with bright white shoulders, tail and legs and an enormous orange-yellow beak, it nests in far eastern Russia and feeds mainly on salmon. In winter many fly south to Japan.","path":"/discover/animals/stellers-sea-eagle","category":"birds","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/stellers-sea-eagle-480.webp?v=1ad71f22f86d8c6f","alt":"A Steller\u0027s Sea Eagle in flight, carrying a fish snatched from the waters around Japan\u0027s northern island of Hokkaido","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:birds","tag:bird-of-prey","tag:raptor","tag:eagle","tag:coasts","tag:fish-eater","tag:vulnerable","habitat:wetlands","habitat:temperate-forest","continent:asia","subgroup:raptor","has:journey","iucn:vu"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:stoat","kind":"animal","title":"Stoat","summary":"The stoat is a small, slender hunter with a long body, short legs and a black-tipped tail. It lives across the northern parts of Europe, Asia and North America, and in snowy places some stoats turn white in winter.","path":"/discover/animals/stoat","category":"mammals","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/stoat-480.webp?v=0b38ed0f5022158f","alt":"Stoat, nominate subspecies Mustela erminea erminea","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:mammals","has:3d","tag:mustelids","tag:forests","tag:snow","tag:superpower","habitat:temperate-forest","habitat:grasslands","habitat:arctic","continent:europe","continent:asia","continent:north-america","subgroup:carnivore","iucn:lc"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:strawberry-poison-frog","kind":"animal","title":"Strawberry poison frog","summary":"The strawberry poison frog is a tiny frog of the rainforest floor in Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Panama. Its bright colors warn hunters that its skin is poisonous, and its parents take amazing care of their young: the mother carries each tadpole to its own little pool and feeds it eggs.","path":"/discover/animals/strawberry-poison-frog","category":"amphibians","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/strawberry-poison-frog-480.webp?v=4e65b7bf624c3fd0","alt":"Strawberry poison dart frog","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:amphibians","tag:rainforest","tag:poison-frog","tag:warning-colors","tag:parent-care","continent:north-america","subgroup:frog","has:sound","iucn:lc"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:striped-skunk","kind":"animal","title":"Striped skunk","summary":"The striped skunk is a cat-sized mammal of North America with bold black and white fur. It comes out at night to hunt insects and other small foods, and it is famous for its warning dance and its strong-smelling spray, which it uses only when it feels threatened.","path":"/discover/animals/striped-skunk","category":"mammals","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/striped-skunk-480.webp?v=1a7047b94b6a745f","alt":"Photo of Striped skunk","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:mammals","tag:north-america","tag:nocturnal","tag:warning-colors","tag:backyard-wildlife","habitat:temperate-forest","habitat:grasslands","continent:north-america","subgroup:carnivore","iucn:lc"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:sulphur-crested-cockatoo","kind":"animal","title":"Sulphur-crested cockatoo","summary":"The sulphur-crested cockatoo is a large white parrot with a bright yellow crest. It lives in forests and towns in northern and eastern Australia and New Guinea. Cockatoos live in noisy flocks, take turns keeping watch while others feed, and in Sydney some have learned to open garbage bins by watching each other.","path":"/discover/animals/sulphur-crested-cockatoo","category":"birds","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/sulphur-crested-cockatoo-480.webp?v=f0adcbf492226fbf","alt":"Sulphur-crested cockatoo , Australian Botanic Gardens, Mount Annan, NSW, Australia","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:birds","tag:parrot","tag:cockatoo","tag:australia","tag:cities","habitat:temperate-forest","continent:oceania","continent:asia","subgroup:parrot","has:sound","iucn:lc"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:sumatran-orangutan","kind":"animal","title":"Sumatran orangutan","summary":"The Sumatran orangutan is a shaggy red great ape that lives almost all its life in the treetops of northern Sumatra, in Indonesia. Its hair is longer and lighter than its Bornean cousin\u0027s, and a mother has a baby only every eight or nine years.","path":"/discover/animals/sumatran-orangutan","category":"mammals","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/sumatran-orangutan-480.webp?v=1038cd41b22b5871","alt":"Orangutan at Columbus Zoo and Aquarium","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:mammals","tag:great-ape","tag:primate","tag:rainforest","tag:critically-endangered","habitat:asian-rainforest","continent:asia","subgroup:primate","iucn:cr"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:sun-bear","kind":"animal","title":"Sun bear","summary":"The sun bear is the smallest of the world\u0027s eight kinds of bear, and it has the longest tongue. It lives in the forests of Southeast Asia, climbs trees with long curved claws, and rips open logs to find insects and honey. Every bear has its own chest patch, like a fingerprint.","path":"/discover/animals/sun-bear","category":"mammals","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/sun-bear-480.webp?v=29236515313fbe99","alt":"Sun Bear in captivity at the Columbus Zoo, Powell, Ohio","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:mammals","tag:bear","tag:rainforest","tag:climber","tag:nocturnal","tag:vulnerable","habitat:asian-rainforest","continent:asia","subgroup:bear","iucn:vu"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:superb-fairywren","kind":"animal","title":"Superb fairywren","summary":"The superb fairywren is a tiny Australian songbird that lives in family groups. In the breeding season the male is bright sky blue and black; the female is brown with an orange-red face. Older family members help feed the chicks, and mothers even call to their eggs before the chicks hatch.","path":"/discover/animals/superb-fairywren","category":"birds","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/superb-fairywren-480.webp?v=00bcc264a66a24b2","alt":"Superb Fairywren , Male, Peter Murrell Reserve, Tasmania, Australia","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:birds","tag:songbird","tag:family-helpers","tag:australia","tag:garden-bird","habitat:temperate-forest","continent:oceania","subgroup:songbird","iucn:lc"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:superb-lyrebird","kind":"animal","title":"Superb lyrebird","summary":"The superb lyrebird is a large, ground-living songbird of Australia\u0027s moist forests. It is a famous copycat: most of its song is made of sounds borrowed from other birds and even machines. The male has a spectacular tail that he throws over his head as he dances and sings.","path":"/discover/animals/superb-lyrebird","category":"birds","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/superb-lyrebird-480.webp?v=3ae9e6f56bd006d9","alt":"Superb Lyrebird , Mt Buffalo, Victoria","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:birds","tag:mimic","tag:songbird","tag:australia","tag:dancer","habitat:temperate-forest","continent:oceania","subgroup:songbird","has:sound","iucn:lc"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:swordfish","kind":"animal","title":"Swordfish","summary":"The swordfish is a huge ocean hunter with a long, flat bill like a sword. It swings its bill to slash at fish and squid, then eats them. It dives deep into cold, dark water by day, and a special \u0027brain heater\u0027 near its eyes keeps its brain warm. Grown-up swordfish have no scales and no teeth.","path":"/discover/animals/swordfish","category":"fish","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/swordfish-480.webp?v=1113ad7734609cec","alt":"A wild swordfish swimming in dark water 701 meters deep off the southeastern United States","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:fish","tag:ocean","tag:billfish","tag:fast","tag:brain-heater","habitat:deep-ocean","subgroup:ocean-fish","iucn:nt"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:tardigrade","kind":"animal","title":"Tardigrade","summary":"Tardigrades, or water bears, are tiny eight-legged animals about a millimeter long or less. They live in damp moss, soil, fresh water and the sea all over the world, and they can survive drying out completely by curling into a little barrel called a tun.","path":"/discover/animals/tardigrade","category":"invertebrates","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/tardigrade-480.webp?v=417cd03d40b5d62c","alt":"The mega-beast of the Tardigrades, up to 1mm long..","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:invertebrates","has:3d","tag:tiny","tag:microscopic","tag:survivor","tag:superpower","tag:space","continent:africa","continent:asia","continent:europe","continent:north-america","continent:south-america","continent:oceania","continent:antarctica","subgroup:other-invertebrate"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:tasmanian-devil","kind":"animal","title":"Tasmanian devil","summary":"The Tasmanian devil is the world\u0027s largest surviving meat-eating marsupial. It lives only on the island of Tasmania, comes out at night, and has jaws strong enough to eat a whole meal, bones and all. Its loud screeches sound fierce, but many of its displays are bluff.","path":"/discover/animals/tasmanian-devil","category":"mammals","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/tasmanian-devil-480.webp?v=42c11b481ccd5599","alt":"Tasmanian Devil , Tasmanian Devil Conservation Park, Taranna, Tasmania, Australia","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:mammals","tag:marsupial","tag:carnivore","tag:nocturnal","tag:endangered","habitat:temperate-forest","continent:oceania","subgroup:marsupial","iucn:en"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:tawny-owl","kind":"animal","title":"Tawny owl","summary":"The tawny owl is a medium-sized woodland owl, about the size of a pigeon, with a round head, big dark eyes and brown, streaky feathers that hide it against tree bark. It hunts mice and voles at night on silent wings, and its hoots are a familiar sound at night.","path":"/discover/animals/tawny-owl","category":"birds","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/tawny-owl-480.webp?v=ab50d0e41b52f874","alt":"Tawny owl in the urban forest of Neuss, Germany","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:birds","tag:owl","tag:bird-of-prey","tag:nocturnal","tag:woodland","tag:hooting","habitat:temperate-forest","continent:europe","continent:asia","continent:africa","subgroup:owl","has:sound","iucn:lc"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:thorny-devil","kind":"animal","title":"Thorny devil","summary":"The thorny devil is a small Australian desert lizard covered in spikes from head to tail. Despite its fierce name it is slow and harmless, it eats nothing but ants, and tiny channels in its skin carry water to its mouth.","path":"/discover/animals/thorny-devil","category":"reptiles","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/thorny-devil-480.webp?v=35936fc71c8a57ea","alt":"Taxidermied thorny devil at the Natural History Museum in London, England","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:reptiles","tag:lizard","tag:desert","tag:ant-eater","tag:spiky","tag:australia","habitat:desert","continent:oceania","subgroup:lizard","iucn:lc"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:tiger","kind":"animal","title":"Tiger","summary":"The tiger is a huge cat with orange fur and dark stripes that help it hide in tall grass and forest shadows. It lives alone, hunts deer and wild pigs, and loves to swim. Wild tigers live only in Asia, and they are endangered.","path":"/discover/animals/tiger","category":"mammals","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/tiger-480.webp?v=e3348e94390f7f4c","alt":"Bengal tiger female, Kanha National Park, India","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:mammals","has:3d","tag:big-cat","tag:endangered","tag:stripes","tag:swimmer","tag:forest","habitat:asian-rainforest","habitat:temperate-forest","habitat:wetlands","continent:asia","subgroup:big-cat","has:sound","iucn:en"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:tiger-shark","kind":"animal","title":"Tiger shark","summary":"The tiger shark is one of the biggest sharks in the sea. Young tiger sharks have dark spots and stripes like a tiger, which fade as they grow. It eats an amazing range of food, and it travels long distances between warm and cooler seas.","path":"/discover/animals/tiger-shark","category":"fish","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/tiger-shark-480.webp?v=8f4eb6e7f5831368","alt":"Tiger shark, Bahamas","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:fish","has:3d","tag:shark","tag:ocean","tag:coral-reef","tag:stripes","tag:near-threatened","tag:migration","habitat:coral-reef","subgroup:shark","iucn:nt"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:toco-toucan","kind":"animal","title":"Toco toucan","summary":"The toco toucan is the biggest toucan, and its huge orange bill is the largest of any bird compared with its body. The bill is light and hollow. It is a tool for picking fruit, and scientists have found it also works like a radiator that lets out body heat. Tocos live in open woodlands and savannas of South America.","path":"/discover/animals/toco-toucan","category":"birds","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/toco-toucan-480.webp?v=71649bcece6d2fba","alt":"Toco toucan in Parque Estadual Encontro das \u00C1guas, Brazil","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:birds","has:3d","tag:toucan","tag:big-beak","tag:savanna","tag:seed-disperser","habitat:grasslands","habitat:amazon-rainforest","continent:south-america","subgroup:tropical","has:sound","iucn:lc"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:tokay-gecko","kind":"animal","title":"Tokay gecko","summary":"The tokay gecko is one of the biggest geckos in the world, a blue-gray lizard covered in orange spots. It lives in forests and on houses across South and Southeast Asia, hunts insects at night, climbs walls and ceilings with special toe pads, and gets its name from the male\u0027s loud to-kay call.","path":"/discover/animals/tokay-gecko","category":"reptiles","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/tokay-gecko-480.webp?v=cd889507cb1549b2","alt":"Photo of Tokay gecko","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:reptiles","tag:lizard","tag:gecko","tag:nocturnal","tag:sticky-feet","tag:noisy","habitat:asian-rainforest","continent:asia","subgroup:lizard","has:sound","iucn:lc"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:tuatara","kind":"animal","title":"Tuatara","summary":"The tuatara looks like a spiny lizard, but it is not one. It is the last living member of a group of reptiles that lived alongside the dinosaurs. Today wild tuatara live only on small islands off New Zealand, where they come out at night, grow very slowly and can live for around 100 years.","path":"/discover/animals/tuatara","category":"reptiles","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/tuatara-480.webp?v=a0638fd925ba3656","alt":"Photo of Tuatara","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:reptiles","tag:not-a-lizard","tag:islands","tag:new-zealand","tag:long-lived","tag:ancient-lineage","habitat:temperate-forest","continent:oceania","subgroup:tuatara","iucn:lc"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:vaquita","kind":"animal","title":"Vaquita","summary":"The vaquita is one of the smallest members of the whale, dolphin and porpoise family, and the most endangered marine mammal in the world. It lives only in the northern Gulf of California in Mexico. In 2025, survey teams saw between 7 and 10 different vaquitas and at least one new calf, and many people are working to keep them safe from fishing nets.","path":"/discover/animals/vaquita","category":"mammals","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/vaquita-480.webp?v=1549edc07e2ab856","alt":"Photo of Vaquita","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:mammals","tag:porpoise","tag:endangered","tag:mexico","tag:coasts","continent:north-america","subgroup:marine-mammal","iucn:cr"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:veiled-chameleon","kind":"animal","title":"Veiled chameleon","summary":"The veiled chameleon lives in the dry mountains of Yemen and Saudi Arabia. It has a tall helmet-like casque on its head, eyes that can look two ways at once, feet that grip like hands and a super-fast sticky tongue. It changes color to show its mood, not to hide.","path":"/discover/animals/veiled-chameleon","category":"reptiles","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/veiled-chameleon-480.webp?v=1fc7cf5035e1012d","alt":"Chamaeleo calyptratus, Chamaeleonidae, Veiled Chameleon; Staatliches Museum f\u00FCr Naturkunde Karlsruhe, Germany","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:reptiles","has:3d","tag:color-change","tag:sticky-tongue","tag:mountains","tag:arabian-peninsula","habitat:mountains","continent:asia","subgroup:lizard","iucn:lc"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:walrus","kind":"animal","title":"Walrus","summary":"The walrus is a huge Arctic sea mammal with long ivory tusks and a thick mustache of whiskers. It feels for clams on the sea floor, sucks out the soft part, and rests in big, noisy groups on sea ice and beaches.","path":"/discover/animals/walrus","category":"mammals","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/walrus-480.webp?v=6be917c4e2ce7dfc","alt":"Photo of Walrus","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:mammals","has:3d","tag:arctic","tag:marine-mammal","tag:tusks","tag:sea-ice","habitat:arctic","continent:north-america","continent:europe","continent:asia","subgroup:marine-mammal","iucn:vu"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:wandering-albatross","kind":"animal","title":"Wandering albatross","summary":"The wandering albatross has the largest known wingspan of any living bird, up to about 3.4 meters from tip to tip. It soars over the stormy Southern Ocean using the wind, catching squid and fish at the surface, and comes ashore only to breed on remote islands. A pair raises one chick at most every two years.","path":"/discover/animals/wandering-albatross","category":"birds","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/wandering-albatross-480.webp?v=e96e96c7e2bc2846","alt":"Wandering Albatross , East of the Tasman Peninsula, Tasmania, Australia","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:birds","tag:seabird","tag:albatross","tag:southern-ocean","tag:soaring","tag:longest-wings","subgroup:seabird","iucn:vu"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:west-indian-manatee","kind":"animal","title":"West Indian manatee","summary":"The West Indian manatee is a large, slow, plant-eating marine mammal nicknamed the sea cow. It lives in warm coasts, rivers and springs from Florida and the Caribbean to Brazil, grazing on seagrass and other water plants for up to 8 hours a day. It cannot stand cold water for long, and being hit by boats is one of the dangers it faces.","path":"/discover/animals/west-indian-manatee","category":"mammals","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/west-indian-manatee-480.webp?v=4368a1e7d11295c6","alt":"A manatee and her calf","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:mammals","tag:sea-cow","tag:coasts","tag:rivers","tag:plant-eater","tag:vulnerable","habitat:wetlands","continent:north-america","continent:south-america","subgroup:marine-mammal","iucn:vu"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:coelacanth","kind":"animal","title":"West Indian Ocean coelacanth","summary":"The West Indian Ocean coelacanth is a large, blue, spotted fish that lives in deep, rocky waters off eastern Africa. Its group was known only from fossils and thought to have died out about 66 million years ago, until a living one was found in South Africa in 1938.","path":"/discover/animals/coelacanth","category":"fish","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/coelacanth-480.webp?v=660036ae7f6bec4c","alt":"Coelacanth 69 m off Pumula on the KwaZulu-Natal South Coast, South Africa, on 22 November 2019","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:fish","has:3d","tag:ocean","tag:deep-sea","tag:ancient","tag:lobe-finned","tag:critically-endangered","habitat:deep-ocean","continent:africa","subgroup:deep-sea-fish","iucn:cr"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:western-diamondback-rattlesnake","kind":"animal","title":"Western diamondback rattlesnake","summary":"The western diamondback rattlesnake is a heavy-bodied snake of the deserts and dry grasslands of the southwestern United States and Mexico. It has diamond patterns, a black-and-white striped tail and a rattle that buzzes as a warning. It is venomous, so it is a snake to admire from far away, but it would much rather hide or slip away than meet a person.","path":"/discover/animals/western-diamondback-rattlesnake","category":"reptiles","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/western-diamondback-rattlesnake-480.webp?v=234bb0347ccc68b4","alt":"Western Diamondback Rattlesnake in New Mexico","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:reptiles","tag:snake","tag:venomous","tag:rattle","tag:desert","tag:pit-viper","habitat:desert","habitat:grasslands","continent:north-america","subgroup:snake","iucn:lc"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:western-gorilla","kind":"animal","title":"Western gorilla","summary":"The western gorilla is a great ape, one of our closest animal relatives. It lives in family groups led by a big silverback male, eats leaves and fruit in the rainforests of central Africa, and is quiet and peaceful unless it feels threatened.","path":"/discover/animals/western-gorilla","category":"mammals","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/western-gorilla-480.webp?v=02eb5edd817e8ec1","alt":"Male Western lowland gorilla in Apenheul Primate Park in Apeldorn","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:mammals","tag:great-ape","tag:primate","tag:rainforest","tag:critically-endangered","continent:africa","subgroup:primate","iucn:cr"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:honey-bee","kind":"animal","title":"Western honey bee","summary":"The western honey bee lives in big families called colonies, with one queen and many workers. Workers collect nectar and pollen from flowers, turn nectar into honey, and tell each other where food is by dancing. As they travel, they pollinate many plants, including crops people eat.","path":"/discover/animals/honey-bee","category":"invertebrates","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/honey-bee-480.webp?v=48f9dabe243eb64a","alt":"Photo of Western honey bee","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:invertebrates","has:3d","tag:insect","tag:pollinator","tag:superpower","tag:farms","tag:diurnal","habitat:grasslands","habitat:temperate-forest","continent:europe","continent:africa","continent:asia","continent:north-america","continent:south-america","continent:oceania","subgroup:insect","has:sound","iucn:dd"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:whale-shark","kind":"animal","title":"Whale shark","summary":"The whale shark is the largest fish in the world. This gentle giant swims through warm seas with its huge mouth open, filtering tiny plankton and small fish from the water, and every whale shark has its own pattern of pale spots.","path":"/discover/animals/whale-shark","category":"fish","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/whale-shark-480.webp?v=59217cdd58955aca","alt":"Photo of Whale shark","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:fish","has:3d","tag:shark","tag:ocean","tag:filter-feeder","tag:endangered","tag:superpower","habitat:coral-reef","habitat:deep-ocean","subgroup:shark","iucn:en"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:white-rhinoceros","kind":"animal","title":"White rhinoceros","summary":"The white rhinoceros is the largest rhino and one of the biggest animals on land. It is not really white: its name may come from its wide, square lips, perfect for mowing grass. Careful protection has brought it back from the edge.","path":"/discover/animals/white-rhinoceros","category":"mammals","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/white-rhinoceros-480.webp?v=2590759b641e2dcd","alt":"White rhinoceros mother and her newborn baby in the Kalahari Desert of Namibia","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:mammals","tag:savanna","tag:big-five","tag:near-threatened","tag:comeback","habitat:african-savanna","habitat:grasslands","continent:africa","subgroup:hoofed","iucn:nt"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:white-stork","kind":"animal","title":"White stork","summary":"The white stork is a tall white bird with black flight feathers, a red bill and long orange legs. It nests on rooftops, chimneys and trees across Europe, North Africa and western Asia, and many storks soar south to spend the winter in Africa or South Asia.","path":"/discover/animals/white-stork","category":"birds","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/white-stork-480.webp?v=a4b5df188505202f","alt":"White Stork in Madrid, Spain","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:birds","tag:stork","tag:migration","tag:wetlands","tag:farmland","tag:rooftop-nests","tag:europe","tag:africa","habitat:wetlands","habitat:grasslands","continent:europe","continent:africa","continent:asia","subgroup:waterbird","has:sound","has:journey","iucn:lc"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:whites-tree-frog","kind":"animal","title":"White\u0027s tree frog","summary":"White\u0027s tree frog, called the green tree frog in Australia, is a large, chubby frog from northern and eastern Australia and New Guinea. Big sticky pads on its fingers and toes help it climb, and it often moves into gardens, water tanks and even bathrooms. It is common and not in danger.","path":"/discover/animals/whites-tree-frog","category":"amphibians","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/whites-tree-frog-480.webp?v=599a95c0f0f13907","alt":"Ranoidea caerulea , Australian green tree frog; Wilhelma Zoo; Stuttgart, Germany","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:amphibians","has:3d","tag:tree-frog","tag:toe-pads","tag:australia","tag:backyard-frog","habitat:wetlands","continent:oceania","subgroup:frog","iucn:lc"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:white-tailed-deer","kind":"animal","title":"White-tailed deer","summary":"White-tailed deer live in forests, fields and even towns from Canada down to South America. They are named for the white underside of the tail, which they hold up like a flag when they run. Males grow new antlers every year.","path":"/discover/animals/white-tailed-deer","category":"mammals","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/white-tailed-deer-480.webp?v=467828a17bd52023","alt":"Photo of White-tailed deer","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:mammals","tag:forest","tag:deer","tag:antlers","tag:north-america","habitat:temperate-forest","habitat:grasslands","continent:north-america","continent:south-america","subgroup:hoofed","iucn:lc"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:whooping-crane","kind":"animal","title":"Whooping crane","summary":"The whooping crane is the tallest bird in North America, snowy white with a red cap and black wingtips. In 1941 only about 21 were left. After decades of careful protection, scientists estimated about 540 cranes from the wild flock that flies between Canada and Texas in its main Texas winter home in 2025\u20132026.","path":"/discover/animals/whooping-crane","category":"birds","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/whooping-crane-480.webp?v=64f178c6b294800f","alt":"The Whooping Crane, Grus americana at the Calgary zoo","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:birds","tag:crane","tag:endangered","tag:migration","tag:wetlands","tag:conservation-success","tag:north-america","habitat:wetlands","continent:north-america","subgroup:waterbird","iucn:en"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:wild-boar","kind":"animal","title":"Wild boar","summary":"Wild boars are bristly wild pigs that live in forests and fields across Europe, Asia and North Africa. They sniff out food with their powerful snouts, live in family groups called sounders, and are the wild ancestors of farm pigs.","path":"/discover/animals/wild-boar","category":"mammals","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/wild-boar-480.webp?v=f7fbf878af437e0d","alt":"Photo of Wild boar","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:mammals","has:3d","tag:forest","tag:pigs","tag:omnivore","tag:invasive","habitat:temperate-forest","habitat:grasslands","habitat:wetlands","continent:europe","continent:asia","continent:africa","subgroup:hoofed","has:sound","iucn:lc"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:wild-turkey","kind":"animal","title":"Wild turkey","summary":"The wild turkey is a big, bronze-feathered bird of North American forests and clearings. It walks most of the time but can run, fly and even roost high in trees at night. By the early 1900s wild turkeys had become rare in many places, but people helped them come back, and now they live in every U.S. state except Alaska.","path":"/discover/animals/wild-turkey","category":"birds","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/wild-turkey-480.webp?v=c3deaed77c7eb896","alt":"Wild Turkey - Meleagris gallopavo, Occoquan Bay National Wildlife Refuge, Woodbridge, Virginia","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:birds","tag:game-bird","tag:forest","tag:gobble","tag:comeback","tag:north-america","habitat:temperate-forest","habitat:grasslands","continent:north-america","subgroup:gamebird","has:sound","iucn:lc"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:wolverine","kind":"animal","title":"Wolverine","summary":"The wolverine is a strong, stocky member of the weasel family that lives in the cold north of North America, Europe and Asia. It travels huge distances, eats almost anything it can find, and digs dens in deep snow for its babies. Its fierce reputation is often exaggerated: it avoids wolves and bears.","path":"/discover/animals/wolverine","category":"mammals","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/wolverine-480.webp?v=1ea5f1f5dbd4966f","alt":"Photo of Wolverine","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:mammals","tag:weasel-family","tag:snow","tag:scavenger","tag:least-concern","habitat:arctic","habitat:mountains","habitat:temperate-forest","continent:north-america","continent:europe","continent:asia","subgroup:carnivore","iucn:lc"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:wood-frog","kind":"animal","title":"Wood frog","summary":"The wood frog is a brown forest frog with a dark \u0022robber\u0027s mask\u0022 across its eyes. It lives farther north than any other North American amphibian, reaching Alaska and northern Canada. To survive winter it lets much of its body freeze, protected by sugar in its cells, and in early spring it is one of the first frogs to call, with a sound like quacking ducks.","path":"/discover/animals/wood-frog","category":"amphibians","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/wood-frog-480.webp?v=698992644e870d1e","alt":"Photo of Wood frog","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:amphibians","tag:frog","tag:freeze-tolerant","tag:forest","tag:vernal-pools","tag:north-america","habitat:temperate-forest","habitat:wetlands","continent:north-america","subgroup:frog","has:sound","iucn:lc"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:yellow-boxfish","kind":"animal","title":"Yellow boxfish","summary":"The yellow boxfish lives inside its own box: a hard shell of bony plates joined together, with holes for its eyes, mouth and fins. Young boxfish are bright yellow with black polka dots, and big adults turn bluish. Its skin can release a toxic slime that protects it from predators, and it paddles slowly around reefs nibbling algae and small animals.","path":"/discover/animals/yellow-boxfish","category":"fish","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/yellow-boxfish-480.webp?v=ed81bdb2a2926bd1","alt":"Image of a yellow boxfish","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:fish","tag:coral-reef","tag:armor","tag:toxic","tag:color-change","habitat:coral-reef","subgroup:reef-fish","iucn:lc"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:yellow-tang","kind":"animal","title":"Yellow tang","summary":"The yellow tang is a lemon-yellow surgeonfish of Pacific coral reefs, most common around Hawaii. It grazes on algae all day, which helps keep reefs from being smothered by seaweed, and it has a sharp white spine on each side of its tail for defense. It is one of the most collected fish for home aquariums.","path":"/discover/animals/yellow-tang","category":"fish","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/yellow-tang-480.webp?v=b3a04df4a27110aa","alt":"Yellow tang in aquarium-Mus\u00E9um Li\u00E8ge","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:fish","tag:coral-reef","tag:surgeonfish","tag:hawaii","tag:algae-eater","habitat:coral-reef","subgroup:reef-fish","iucn:lc"],"ages":[3,17]},{"key":"animal:yellowfin-tuna","kind":"animal","title":"Yellowfin tuna","summary":"The yellowfin tuna is a large, torpedo-shaped fish of warm oceans around the world. It has a dark blue back, a silver belly and long, bright yellow fins. Yellowfin travel huge distances, dive deep to hunt fish and squid, and are important to fisheries all around the world.","path":"/discover/animals/yellowfin-tuna","category":"fish","image":"/_content/PlayOwl.WebUI/img/discover/photos/animals/yellowfin-tuna-480.webp?v=b346ca85342baa1a","alt":"Yellowfin tuna in the Gulf Stream","at":null,"facets":["kind:animal","category:fish","has:3d","tag:ocean","tag:open-ocean","tag:fishing","tag:migration","subgroup:ocean-fish","iucn:lc"],"ages":[3,17]}]