Animals
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Online
As a library member you can access a range of e-resources by logging in with your library card number and PIN.
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Look up animals in using the e-resources, especially in
Credo Reference, which
includes the 'Encyclopedia of Dinosaurs', 'Encyclopedia of Insects', plus images and audio clips, and in
Oxford Reference the 'Encyclopedia of Underwater Life', the
'Encyclopedia of Mammals', 'The New Encyclopedia of Birds' and 'A
Dictionary of Animal Behaviour' - Find articles, images and web links in Encyclopaedia Britannica online
- For useful web sites on pets, wild animals conservation and more, see the Animals section of WebLinks
- For more in-depth biology and zoology web sites see the Biology, natural history, zoology section of WebLinks or follow links from the broader science sites in Science and technology
In the Library
- The three larger libraries Bedford, Dunstable and Leighton Buzzard Library each have the major reference work Grzimek's animal life encyclopedia, 2nd edition, in 17 volumes. With articles written by experts and thousands of colour images, the encyclopedia includes insects, fishes, amphibians, reptiles, birds, mammals and more.
- Search the Library catalogue, for books on animals
Page last updated: 25th November 2013