BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATIONS IN THE ANIMAL KINGDOM SERIES (20 Programs) MULTIPLE SITE USE
This series of twenty 7-minute programs explores the characteristics of body structure, locomotion, mating, habitat adaptation, and other features that cause scientists to classify animals in biological groups. Worldwide, live-action location footage alternates with clear close-ups and captions that reveal the distinctive features of each group of animals. In addition to learning particulars of certain groups, this series trains young minds how to observe and analyze in a scientific manner.
Item#23591 Bees & Other Hymenopterans
This program introduces the members of the order Hymenoptera, which have a characteristic slim shape and two pairs of jointed, membranous wings.
Item# 23610 Bony & Other Cartilginous Fish
Live-action footage introduces several species of bony flatfish, including turbot, brill, sole, and plaice. These side-swimmers are shown camouflaging themselves on the ocean floor.
Item# 23592 Bugs & Other Hemipterans
Live-action footage highlights the distinguishing characteristic of heteropterans, rigid forewings covering tiny back wings and a piercing tool used for feeding.
Item# 23593 Butterflies & Other Lepidopterans
Live-action footage captures a butterfly chrysalis warding off its enemies and highlights the scaly wings that are characteristic of all Lepidopterans.
Item# 23594 Crabs & Other Custaceans
Live-action film footage introduces the characteristics of crustaceans, with a focus on decapods, ten-legged crustaceans such as crabs and shrimps.
Item# 23595 Crickets & Other Orthopterans
Live-action film footage reveals the characteristics of crickets and other orthopterans.
Item# 23596 Deer & Other Ruminants
Starting with members of the deer family and their characteristics, this program explains that ruminants are two-toed mammals that regurgitate their food from one of their stomach compartments for further chewing.
Item# 23597 Earthworms & Other Annelids
Live-action footage highlights the annelid features of earthworms, such as a soft, segmented body with a defined head and anus, muscles for locomotion, and thick skin full of blood vessels that secrete a viscous liquid.
Item# 23598 Flies & Other Dipterans
Beginning with the common housefly, this program reviews the characteristics of dipterans: two sets of wings, halteres, and proboscises.
Item# 23599 Frogs & Other Amphibians
Amphibians are introduced by comparing the habits and physical characteristics of frogs, tritons (newts), toads, and salamanders.
Item# 23600 Ladybug beetles & Other Coleopterans
Close-up footage shows aphids providing food for ants, who are then eaten by ladybugs. Typical coleopteran features are demonstrated by the ladybug?s two membranous folding wings, protected by two rigid wing covers.
Item# 23601 Mice & Other Rodents
Live-action footage introduces characteristics of rodents such as mice, voles, muskrats, and gerbils, highlighting the single pair of upper and lower incisors, which distinguish them from non-rodents such as hedgehogs, rabbits, and bats.
Item# 23602 Mussels & Other Bivalves
Live-action footage introduces typical bivalve mollusks including mussels, oysters, clams, cockles, fresh water mussels, and pearl oysters. There are over 12,000 species in the world, each distinguished by a shell with two halves (valves) and siphons through which the animal filters its food.
Item# 23603 Owls & Other Raptors
Beginning with the common barn owl, birds of prey, from eagles and kites to vultures and buzzards, are introduced.
Item# 23604 Parmecia & Other Protozoans
Paramecia are examples of the ciliate phylum, unicellular protists that are found in all environments. Live-action photography captures the various ways these organisms move, reproduce, and feed.
Item# 23605 Sea Anemones & Other Cnidarians
Beginning with the common sea anemone, this program expands students? understanding of cnidarians to include a variety of simple organisms such as jellyfish and coral, which possess stinging tentacles and exhibit complex behaviors despite their simple body structures.
Item# 23606 Snails & Other Gastropods
Live-action footage of the brown garden snail highlights the characteristics that make this animal a gastropod mollusk.
Item# 23607 Snakes & Other Reptiles
Close-up videography of the rat snake highlights its excellent vision, its sense of smell, its hunting ability, and its method of swallowing a victim whole.
Item# 23608 Spiders & Other Arachnids
Comparisons between spiders, daddy-long-legs, and acarids stress that spiders are not the only members of the arachnid group.
Item# 23609 Starfish & Other Echinoderms
Live-action footage highlights the characteristics of echinoderms, or "animals with spiny skins," whose 6,000 species include starfish, sea urchins, and sea cucumbers.
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