May 02, 2006

Animal Diversity Web is an online database of various biological topics at the University of Michigan. Animal Diversity Web has: * Thousands of species accounts about individual animal species. These may include text, pictures of living animals, photographs and movies of specimens, and/or recordings of sounds. Students write the text of these accounts and we cannot guarantee their accuracy. * Descriptions of levels of organization above the species level, especially phyla, classes, and in some cases, orders and families. Hundreds of hyperlinked pages and images illustrate the traits and general biology of these groups. Professional biologists prepare this part. Quite educational, but that's beside the point. The point is spinnin' frickin' skulls [QTVR] people!
posted by cog_nate 18 years ago
  • Oh man, I think I just killed the last 30 minutes listening to various bird songs. Thanks for this very cool link!
  • kittenhead: .I know what you mean. The spinning skills didn't do that much for me, but I spent hours trying to identify a bird that I hear singing almost daily. I still don't know what it is. And the wolf group-howl aroused some atavistic fight or flight reaction, and I had to turn it off. Even though I do love wolves on an intellectual level
  • Caution! Live frogs!
  • Thanks. Now I've got to spend all day looking at mammal pictures. Check this bad muther!
  • What? Don't leave me hanging, Wolof. You know, I should have posted this years ago. Don't know why I didn't. I link to it from my own website, I use some of their resources (with permission, of course) and have been in contact with some of the people involved. Ah well, it's good to have it out on the Internets for all to see... but be warned, they are DAMN protective of their copyrights. Don't mess with the U of M legal department; they helped me shut down a content-thief years before the DMCA started doing it. Bastard was google-ranked higher than me, thanks to my content. (He still has some (barely modified) copies of my stuff.) When he scammed the photos I had obtained from the ADW he discovered he'd bitten off more than he was willing to chew.