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SURVEY OF THE VERTEBRATES CD-ROMS
The definitive multimedia review of the broad array of animal life found on earth. Thousands of images, 250,000+ words of encyclopedic information.10 CD-ROMS.
#CDR-1323X CD-ROM
$274.95

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Complete SURVEY OF THE ANIMAL KINGDOM -:- 10 CD-ROMS

Combined IBM/MAC Format

This exhaustive, award winning work is the definitive multimedia review of the great
variety of animal life found on this planet. Meticulously detailed, massively documented, with
extensive teachers' guide materials, this review provides in one encyclopedic package a library
full of carefully organized, hard to find information.

Eye-stopping photographs of live animals augmented by graphics where appropriate
makes this a memorable visual extravaganza! The combination of clearly presented facts and
fabulous photography presents an unparalleled learning experience! These 10 programs will earn
a unique place among your most useful teaching tools! Each part is available individually or as
part of a series.

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REVIEWS:

"...imaginative use of sound effects and music.... The photography is truly splendid
...viewers may even wish to proceed frame by frame as if these were slides." Media Review.

"A useful resource for high school and college media centers..." Library Journal.

"...fulfills the need for a detailed overview of factual information...an excellent
collection of animal photographs..." Curriculum Review.
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THE COMPLETE SURVEY OF THE VERTEBRATES (6 CD-ROM BUNDLE)
Order #CDR-1323X...$274.95


PART I: UROCHORDATES AND CRANIATA (VERTEBRATA)--THROUGH FISH
Order #CDR-1323....... $49.95
Lab Pack of 5 Order #CDR-1323-5....... $149.95

40-minute multimedia Presentation -:-Easy going narration with hundreds of interactive links
Very extensive supplemental information (over 25,000 words!)
400+ Color Photos, many full-screen, all can be copied and printed, even in color
90+ interactive Questions with Explanations, and automatic Quizzes
Customized electronic Glossary -:- Additional Free Dictionary and Encyclopedia

This informative 40-minute multimedia presentation traces the evolutionary transition from
urochordates to fishes, the first true vertebrates, and provides extensive coverage of the modern
bony fishes. It introduces the subphylums Urochordata and Cephalochordata (the tunicates and
lancelets which have vertebrate characteristics for only part of their life cycles), then explores the
three classes of fish: jawless fish such as the lamprey (this is the class to which the first
vertebrates belong); cartilaginous fish, the sharks and rays; and bony fish, the most highly evolved
and diverse class of fishes.

An easy going, highly informative interactive narrative linked to an extensive supplemental text
provides easily accessible, near encyclopedic information about every animal—right at the user’s
fingertips! Additional interactive features access over 90 questions with explanations, automatic
quizzes and a customized glossary.

Individual species examined include tunicate, lamprey, hagfish, sharks, rays, paddlefish,
sturgeon, tarpon, moray, gar, bowfin, shad, trout, salmon, pike, pickerel, muskellunge, electric
eel, piranha, goldfish, catfish, cod, molly, seahorse, scorpionfish, mullet, bass, dolphinfish,
barracuda, remora, puffer, coelacanth, lungfish, and many more. 400+ pictures in all.

The presentation provides scientific names and describes habitat, diet and unusual physical and
behavioral characteristics of the selected species. Even includes an examination of the rare and
unusual coelacanth, a lobe-finned fish thought to share a common ancestry with the first
terrestrial vertebrates.

Included free on this disk, greatly enhancing its value as a reference tool, are Webster’s New
World Dictionary (Third College Edition) featuring more than 150,000 entries and the American
Concise Encyclopedia with more than 15,000 entries and original source documents.
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PART II: AMPHIBIANS AND REPTILES
Order #CDR-1324…...... $49.95
Lab Pack of 5 Order #CDR-1324-5....... $149.95

40-minute multimedia Presentation -:- Easy going narration with hundreds of interactive links
Very extensive supplemental information (over 30,000 words!)
400+ Color Photos, many full-screen, all can be copied and printed, even in color
90+ interactive Questions with Explanations, and automatic Quizzes
Customized electronic Glossary -:- Additional Free Dictionary and Encyclopedia

A 40-minute multimedia presentation providing a comprehensive introduction to the world’s
amphibians and reptiles. These range from the spring peeper, whose evening chorus is a
welcome harbinger of spring in the North East; to the sinister African mamba, whose venomous
bite brings death in minutes; and to the lumbering giant tortoises of the enchanted Galapagos
Islands, some of which were alive when Darwin stepped ashore.

An easy going, highly informative interactive narrative linked to a very extensive supplemental text
provides easily accessible, near encyclopedic information about every animal—right at the user’s
fingertips! Additional interactive features access over 90 questions with explanations, automatic
quizzes and a customized glossary.

In-depth coverage is provided of the three amphibian orders (Gymnophiona or Apoda, caecilians;
Anura, frogs and toads; Urodela, newts and salamanders), and the four reptile orders
(Rhynchocephalia, tuataras; Chelonia, tortoises and turtles; Squamata, snakes; and Crocodilia,
crocodiles and alligators). Numerous individual animals are pictured, scientific names are
provided, along with interesting facts about location, habitat, behavior, reproduction, diet,
threatened or endangered status, etc. In addition, poikilothermic temperature regulation is
described in detail, as is the larval stages, respiration, reproduction, significance of amniotic eggs,
evolution and adaptation.

Animals portrayed include salamanders, newts, frogs, toads, turtles, tortoises, boas, pythons,
coral snakes, African mambas, cobras, rattlesnakes, tropical banded sea snakes, geckos,
chameleons, iguanas, gila monsters, tuataras, alligators, crocodiles, Komodo dragons, and even
the thorny devil or Moloch from Australia. 400+ pictures in all.

Included free on this disk, greatly enhancing its value as a reference tool, are Webster’s New
World Dictionary (Third College Edition) featuring more than 150,000 entries and the American
Concise Encyclopedia with more than 15,000 entries and original source documents.
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PART III: BIRDS--OSTRICH THROUGH GUINEA FOWL
Order #CDR-1325......... $49.95
Lab Pack of 5 Order #CDR-1325-5....... $149.95

35-minute multimedia Presentation -:- Easy going narration with hundreds of interactive links
Very extensive supplemental information (over 20,000 words!)
350+ Color Photos, many full-screen, all can be copied and printed, even in color
65+ interactive Questions with Explanations, and automatic Quizzes
Customized electronic Glossary -:- Additional Free Dictionary and Encyclopedia
No Hard Drive Space required

This colorful, information-packed 35-minute multimedia presentation provides a comprehensive
introduction to the class Aves, the birds of the world. The living members of this class are
generally grouped into 27 orders and 155 families. This program presents the first 13 orders,
illustrated by 31 families. (A companion program, PART IV: BIRDS--CRANES THROUGH
PASSERINES, presents an additional 12 orders and 59 families, so that together a total of 25 of
27 orders and 90 of 155 families are covered.)

An easy going, highly informative interactive narrative is linked to a very extensive supplemental
text, providing easily accessible, near encyclopedic information about every bird—right at the
user’s fingertips! Additional interactive features access over 65 questions with explanations,
automatic quizzes and a customized glossary.

Provides over 350 full color photographs of live birds from around the world. Beginning with the
large flightless ratites, ostriches, emus, rheas and cassowaries, this program then covers such
diverse aquatic birds as penguins, loons, grebes, albatrosses, pelicans, cormorants, darters,
frigate birds, egrets, bitterns, storks, ibises, spoonbills, flamingos, ducks, geese, and swans.
Birds of prey such as condors, vultures, hawks, eagles and falcons are presented in detail, as are
various fowl, so many of which have become important food sources for humans-- chickens,
turkeys and guinea fowl. Scientific names are provided, as is historical and behavioral information,
habitats are located and described, and the physical, behavioral, and ecological similarities of bird
species within families as well as across families are detailed.

Included free on this disk, greatly enhancing its value as a reference tool, are Webster’s New
World Dictionary (Third College Edition) featuring more than 150,000 entries and the American
Concise Encyclopedia with more than 15,000 entries and original source documents.
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PART IV: BIRDS--CRANES THROUGH PASSERINES
Order #CDR-1326......... $49.95
Lab Pack of 5 Order #CDR-1326-5....... $149.95

40-minute multimedia Presentation -:- Easy going narration with hundreds of interactive links
Very extensive supplemental information (over 20,000 words!)
350+ Color Photos, many full-screen, all can be copied and printed, even in color
75+ interactive Questions with Explanations, and automatic Quizzes
Customized electronic Glossary -:- Additional Free Dictionary and Encyclopedia

This colorful, information-packed, 40-minute multimedia presentation completes our
comprehensive introduction to the class Aves, the birds of the world. It provides an incomparable
journey to such exotic locals as Australia, the Amazon, the Poles, and Pacific archipelagos as it
details the nature and life styles of such birds as crowned cranes, laughing kookaburras,
thrushes, colorful parrots and puffins, and the highly varied and numerous passerines—the
songbirds. This program picks up where the previous program (PART III: BIRDS--OSTRICH
THROUGH GUINEAFOWL) ends, presenting 12 additional orders, illustrated by 59 families, so
that together a total of 25 of 27 orders and 90 of 155 families are surveyed.

An easy going, highly informative interactive narrative is linked to a very extensive supplemental
text, providing easily accessible, near encyclopedic information about every bird—right at the
user’s fingertips! Additional interactive features access over 75 questions with explanations,
automatic quizzes and a customized glossary.

Over 350 full color photographs of live birds from around the world are included. Among the many
birds pictured are cranes, coots, sandpipers, puffins, gulls, terns, doves, parrots, roadrunners,
owls, whip-poor-wills, swifts, hummingbirds, kingfishers, toucans, woodpeckers, larks, swallows,
waxwings, wrens, nuthatches, wood warblers, tanagers, jays, crows, finches, sparrows,
blackbirds, orioles, and such thrushes as the robin and mountain bluebird. Scientific names are
provided, as is historical and behavioral information, habitats are located and described, and the
physical, behavioral, and ecological similarities of bird species within families as well as across
families are detailed.

Included free on this disk, greatly enhancing its value as a reference tool, are Webster’s New
World Dictionary (Third College Edition) featuring more than 150,000 entries and the American
Concise Encyclopedia with more than 15,000 entries and original source documents.
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PART V: MAMMALS--ECHIDNA THROUGH WHALES
Order #CDR-1327........ $49.95
Lab Pack of 5 Order #CDR-1327-5.......$149.95

45-minute multimedia Presentation -:- Easy going narration with hundreds of interactive links
Very extensive supplemental information (over 30,000 words!)
450+ Color Photos, many full-screen, all can be copied and printed, even in color
90+ interactive Questions with Explanations, and automatic Quizzes
Customized electronic Glossary -:- Additional Free Dictionary and Encyclopedia

This awesome 45-minute multimedia presentation, and its companion program (PART VI:
MAMMALS--CANIDS THROUGH SHEEP) provide a comprehensive introduction to the world’s
mammals. Together they detail mammal’s relationships to the other classes of vertebrates,
explain the different reproductive and developmental process of the three main groups, and
describe the behaviors and mechanisms that have enabled mammals to be so successful and
wide spread.

Mammals are wonderfully diverse. A small group--only 5,000 of the more than one million known
species of animals--yet mammals are considered the most highly evolved of all
animals--homoiothermic vertebrates with four chambered hearts and highly developed brains
whose young are nourished by the mothers' milk secreting glands. There are primitive egg-laying
mammals, the monotremes; those that are born in a very immature state and are nourished in
their mothers' pouch, the marsupials; and those whose developing young are nourished internally,
the placentals.

An easy going, highly informative interactive narrative linked to a very extensive supplemental text
provides easily accessible, near encyclopedic information about every animal—right at the user’s
fingertips! Additional interactive features access over 90 questions with explanations, automatic
quizzes and a customized glossary.

Mammals range in size from tiny shrews to blue whales, the largest animal to ever live on earth.
They are found everywhere: on land, beneath the land, on trees and in trees, on the sea and under
the sea, in deserts and tropics, on polar ice caps and in the air. Some are covered with fur, others
with scales, spines or hard shells. Most are quadrupedal, others bipedal, some burrow, some
swim, some climb and a very large group fly. Some have exquisite hearing or vision, others
echolocate, some use tools and some think abstractly. Some communicate with each other and
some are subject to social ties that bind individuals into tribes, herds, pods or other groups.
Perhaps others have senses and capacities we have not yet begun to discover.

Numerous individual animals are pictured, 400+ pictures in all, scientific names are provided,
along with interesting facts about location, habitat, behavior, reproduction, diet, threatened or
endangered status, evolution and adaptation. The animals presented on this CD-ROM include the
monotremes (echidna, platypus); marsupials (Tasmanian devils, kangaroos, koalas, opossums),
and placentals. Placentals include the Insectivora (moles, hedgehogs and shrews), Chiroptera
(bats—the second largest group of mammals), Primates (lemurs, monkeys, great apes and man),
Edentata (sloths, anteaters and armadillos), Lagomorpha (rabbits, hares and pikas),
Rodents—the largest group of mammals (includes prairie dogs, squirrels, beavers, rats, hamsters,
porcupines, muskrats, agoutis, etc.), and Cetacea (whales, dolphins and porpoises).

Included free on this disk, greatly enhancing its value as a reference tool, are Webster’s New
World Dictionary (Third College Edition) featuring more than 150,000 entries and the American
Concise Encyclopedia with more than 15,000 entries and original source documents.
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PART VI: MAMMALS--CANIDS THROUGH SHEEP
Order #CDR-1328......... $49.95
Lab Pack of 5 Order #CDR-1328-5....... $149.95

40-minute multimedia Presentation -:- Easy going narration with hundreds of interactive links
Very extensive supplemental information (over 30,000 words!)
375+ Color Photos, many full-screen, all can be copied and printed, even in color
50+ interactive Questions with Explanations, and automatic Quizzes
Customized electronic Glossary -:- Additional Free Dictionary and Encyclopedia

This ambitious 40-minute multimedia presentation, and its companion program (Part V: Mammals
- Echidna Through Whales) provide a comprehensive introduction to the world’s mammals.
Together they detail mammal’s relationships to the other classes of vertebrates, explain the
different reproductive and developmental process of the three main groups, and describe the
behaviors and mechanisms that have enabled mammals to be so successful and wide spread.

Mammals are wonderfully diverse. A small group--only 5,000 of the more than one million known
species of animals--yet mammals are considered the most highly evolved of all
animals--homoiothermic vertebrates with four chambered hearts and highly developed brains
whose young are nourished by the mothers' milk secreting glands. There are primitive egg-laying
mammals, the monotremes; those that are born in a very immature state and are nourished in
their mothers' pouch, the marsupials; and those whose developing young are nourished internally,
the placentals.

An easy going, highly informative interactive narrative linked to a very extensive supplemental text
provides easily accessible, near encyclopedic information about every animal—right at the user’s
fingertips! Additional interactive features access over 50 questions with explanations, automatic
quizzes and a customized glossary.

In this, the final program of the series, we complete our study of mammals, beginning with the
order Carnivora (the meat eaters such as badgers, bears, foxes, wolves, raccoons, mongooses,
lions, tigers, etc.), continuing with the Tubulidentata (aardvark), Pinnipedia (sealions, seals and
walruses), Proboscidea (elephants), Hyracoidea (hyraxes), Sirenia (manatee), and ending with the
Perissodactyla (horses, rhinos and tapirs) and the Artiodactyla (okapi, camels, hippos, pigs,
sheep, etc.), the odd and even-toed hoofed mammals.

Numerous individual animals are pictured, 375+ pictures in all, scientific names are provided,
along with interesting facts about location, habitat, behavior, reproduction, diet, threatened or
endangered status, evolution and adaptation.

Included free on this disk, greatly enhancing its value as a reference tool, are Webster’s New
World Dictionary (Third College Edition) featuring more than 150,000 entries and the American
Concise Encyclopedia with more than 15,000 entries and original source documents.
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THE COMPLETE SURVEY OF THE INVERTEBRATES (4 CD-ROM BUNDLE)
Order #CDR-1319X……$174.95

THE COMPLETE SURVEY OF THE ANIMAL KINGDOM (10 CD-ROM BUNDLE)
Order #CDR-1328X...$399.95
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REVIEWS:

"The organization of the material makes ... easy to use within a class period... long
enough to allow for thorough coverage of their topics. The teacher's guide will be of tremendous
value to the biology teacher. Recommended." The Book Report.

"The photographs are excellent...most useful." School Library Journal.

"...marvelous.... No other series is so comprehensive... technical qualities are superb....
Highly recommended." Choice.

"...a cornucopia of images and information at reasonable cost." Science Books and
Films.

GOLD PLAQUE AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE The Industrial Film Festival.

SILVER APPLE AWARD National Educational Films and Video Festival.

OUTSTANDING NONPRINT MATERIAL Choice Magazine

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ORIGINAL VERSION STILL AVAILABLE ON FILMSTRIPS


INVERTEBRATES: Part I, II, III, & IV (4) Order # FS-1058.......... $99.95

VERTEBRATES: Part I, II, III, IV, V, & VI (6) Order # FS-1059.......... $149.95


BOTH FILMSTRIP SERIES (10) PROGRAMS Order # FS-1058X.........$249.95

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