March Mammal Madness

Animal Diversity Web (ADW) is an online database of animal natural history, distribution, classification, and conservation biology at the University of Michigan.

The Journal of Mammalogy and Mammalian Species are once again pleased to participate in March Mammal Madness (MMM) with the addition of other related Oxford University Press published journals, including American Entomologist, Annals of Botany, Behavioral Ecology, BioScience, Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, FEMS Microbiology Ecology, ICES Journal of Marine Science, Journal of Molluscan Studies, Mutagenesis, Ornithology, and Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society.

Includes details profiles of species, as well as links to other information sources.

The Map of Life assembles and integrates different sources of data describing species distributions worldwide.

Provides knowledge of the many life-forms on Earth - of animals, plants, fungi, protists and bacteria.

Frontiers for Young Minds provides a collection of freely available scientific articles by distinguished scientists that are shaped for younger audiences by the input of their own young peers.

Free silhouette images of animals, plants, and other life forms, available for reuse under a Public Domain or Creative Commons license.

Database of freely usable media files.

Mammal is a tool for collecting, archiving, and sharing camera trapping images and datahouses the largest database of mammal detections in the world and includes open access favorite photos and data. Official participants in #2018MMM!

The BHL portal provides free access to hundreds of thousands of volumes, comprising over 57 million pages, from the 15th-21st centuries. In addition to public domain content, BHL works with rights holders to obtain permission to make in-copyright materials openly available under Creative Commons licenses.

The Kluane Red Squirrel Project is an interdisciplinary, large-scale field experiment designed to test the importance of food abundance to the ecology and evolution of red squirrels.

This project provides information on weasels and their changing habitat in Switzerland.

Since 1976 the Center for Whale Research (CWR) has been the leading organization studying the Southern Resident killer whales in their critical habitat: the Salish Sea. Additionally, the Center for Whale Research has been under contract to National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) to conduct the Orca Survey project.

Highlighted in #2017MMM, this project focusing on meerkats is operated by the Kalahari Research Centre.

Learn about the vast Yellowstone ecosystem through field notes and stories.

This collaborative bat monitoring program is made up of an extensive community of partners across the continent who use standardized protocols to gather data that allow us to assess population status and trends, inform responses to stressors, and sustain viable populations.

Research about Soay sheep, their ecology and their seasonal patterns.

The Amboseli Baboon Project is one of the longest-running studies of wild primates in the world. Focused on the savannah baboon, Papio cynocephalus, ABRP is located in the Amboseli ecosystem of East Africa, north of Mt. Kilimanjaro.

Professor Holekamp's behavioral ecology and evolution research on hyenas

Website curated by an international team of behavioural biologists based at the Leibniz-IZW in Berlin (Germany) who have been studying spotted hyenas in the Ngorongoro Crater in Tanzania for 26 years.

The Ngogo Chimpanzee Project Inc.’s mission is to conduct scientific research and maintain the long-term study of the Ngogo community of chimpanzees in Kibale National Park, Uganda, to conserve animal populations throughout the park, and to support the education of local people of all ages.

Broad institute research on mammals with the goal of creating low-coverage genome assemblies and aligning the resulting sequence to the human genome to permit comparative genomic analysis.

Fun facts about animals and more.

Learn more about your favorite animals.

The aim of a World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS) is to provide an authoritative and comprehensive list of names of marine organisms, including information on synonymy. While the highest priority goes to valid names, other names in use are included so that this register can serve as a guide to interpret taxonomic literature. Also includes an excellent photogallery

A place online to find the biggest, baddest, and the best in the world of extremes and learn about the science behind what makes each the most extreme example of its kind.

Information on which species are found in the U.S. National Parks

Names of males, females, babies and groups of animals.

Factsheets providing a starting point to learn information about primate species, developed by the Wisconsin National Primate Research Center.

The ALA is Australia’s national biodiversity database. Founded on the principle of data sharing – collect it once, share it, use it many times – the ALA provides free, online access to millions of occurrence records to form the most comprehensive and accessible data set on Australia’s biodiversity ever produced

This site is designed to both introduce the interested novice to the mammals of Tanzania, and serve as an aid to biologists focused on the study and conservation of these special mammals

Infrared light shows us the heat radiated by the world around us. By viewing animals with a thermal infrared camera, we can actually "see" the differences between warm and cold-blooded animals. A tour of the site gives you a new perspective on feathers, fur and blubber.

This site has a large collection of biology learning materials that includes stories, games, activities, videos, and a podcast.

This site has an abundance of anthropology educational resources, games, and content.

This site is NSF KidSites.com approved. It includes an eclectic collection of old illustrations and information about the history of paleontology and biology.

Search award-winning multimedia apps, animations, videos, and more to bring scientific discovery into the classroom.

In partnership with the Public Library of Science, ASU students interpret articles from PLoS Biology to make them more accessible for non-scientists.

The National Science Digital Library provides high quality online educational resources for teaching and learning.

This website provides access to our diverse resources and activities, including BioKIC's natural history collections.

Welcome to Smithsonian Open Access, where you can download, share and reuse millions of the Smithsonian’s images—right now, without asking. With new platforms and tools, you have easier access to nearly 3 million 2D and 3D digital items from our collections—with many more to come. This includes images and data from across the Smithsonian’s 19 museums, nine research centers, libraries, archives and the National Zoo.

Explore the Paleobiology Database through space, time and taxonomy.

bioRxiv (pronounced "bio-archive") is a free online archive and distribution service for unpublished preprints in the life sciences.

DOAJ is a community-curated online directory that indexes and provides access to high quality, open access, peer-reviewed journals.

PubMed Central (PMC) is a free archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature at the U.S. National Institutes of Health's National Library of Medicine (NIH/NLM).

The animal kingdom (Metazoa, in Greek) is full of our distant relatives... some more distant than others! Metazooa is a game that tests how well you know our extended family tree.

Wordle for Animals for the month of March! Animordle was created by friends of the MMM tournament JT Miller of St. Albans School and Sean Nolan of the Landon School.