Welcome to the animals homepage in the learning zone!

The study of animals, their environment and their behaviour is called zoology. The zoological collection in the museum holds thousands of different types of animals. Just click on one of the links to find out more.

The living animal
What are the processes that make animals alive? Meet Mrs Nerg - movement, reproduction, sensitivity, nutrition, excretion, respiration and growth.

Extinct and endangered
Find out about some of our extinct and endangered animals. What is extinction and what can you do to stop it? And what does a hippo have to do with it?

Animal I.D.
How many animals are there on Earth? How do we group them? Understand the tree of life.

Charlie the cheetah recommends meeting Mrs Nerg in the living animal, finding out about the Tree of life, or trying one of our Games.