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Mammal Activity Books, DVDs, and Games
Includes activity books, DVD's, children's books, and references on a wide variety of mammal species. Also includes useful mammal skull and bone identification books, squirrel houses and various mammal skull replicas.
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Mammal Identification Guides
In this section you will find a compilation of guides from different sections of this website (field guide section, mammal sections, etc) all compiled in one location.
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Mammal Skull Replicas
In this section you will find the following mammal skull replicas: duck-billed platypus, red kangaroo, wombat, aardvark, opossum, gray squirrel, prairie dog, woodchuck, American porcupine, little brown bat, vampire bat, fruit bat, jack rabbit, beaver, river otter, badger, ringtail, black-footed ferret, rock hyrax, wolverine, striped skunk, manatee, sea otter, harbor seal, California sea lion, walrus, whitetail deer, American bison, warthog, pronghorn antelope, elk, raccoon, bobcat, cougar, smilodon, American lion, jaguar, coyote, gray wolf, red wolf, dire wolf, gray fox, black bear, grizzly bear, tree shrew, slow loris, owl monkey, rhesus monkey, chimpanzee, false killer whale and bottlenose dolphin.
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Mammal Track Replicas
These life-size mammal track replicas are individually cast using flexible vinyl. Use for sand tracking games (glue replicas to blocks of wood using vinyl glue and stamp tracks into sand boxes) or bring into the field to compare tracks or make prints. These accurate casts from museum specimens show every skin fold, claw or scale. These are wonderful hands-on tools for teaching anatomy, adaptations, behavior, ecology or tracking skills. Use TSP (available at any hardware store) to clean occasionally. Offered in sets featuring one back and one front foot unless noted as ea, in which case only one foot is included.
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Mammal Track Molds
Made from flexible vinyl polymers, these molds can be filled with plaster, clay or PerfectCast, the compound used by museum professionals (available from Acorn Naturalists). Use the track casts you make as instructional aids, pressing them into moist sand or dirt to create a story (such as coyote tracks chasing rabbit tracks), for ink prints, or to compare with field specimens. Everyone can have fun making tracks—students or campers can take them home or make displays. Clean with TSP (available at hardware stores) or other soapy cleansers or detergents. Each mold also features the name of the track and hind (H) or front (F) paw reversed out so that it appears correctly on the positive. Each of the species listed below includes a hind and a front track mold (set), unless designated as ea.
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Mammal Track Casts (mounted on plaques)
These three-dimensional animal track casts are mounted on plaques and cast to give give the tracks a realistic appearance. Each is individually handcrafted and perfect for classroom use or display.
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Mammal Tracking Stencils
Based on real tracks, these life-size mylar stencils are precision-cut to produce a perfect track outline. Each tracking stencil set includes one action stencil for creating common movement patterns and two single stencils representing front and hind feet. Stencils can be flipped over to create both right and left-sided prints. Each set also contains a natural history reference sheet that describes the animal’s ecological status, habitat, body shape, behavior, and diet along with illustrations of one or more track patterns. Also included are suggestions for classroom and group activities. Use these stencil sets to create life-size track scenes to help illustrate predator/prey relationships or identify gaits and patterns. Create customized field guides, augment journals or art projects, use for embossing, creating track positives or making life-size animal track matching games. Packaged in a reusable clear bag, these stencils work well with regular or colored pencils, paints, watercolor pencils, charcoals and chalk.
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Mammal Claw Replicas
Realistic life-size animal claw replicas, perfect for demonstrating specialized animal adaptations. Made from durable, non-breakable polymer resins. Our selection includes the following claws: badger, black bear, grizzly bear, polar bear, beaver, bobcat, cheetah, coyote, red fox, jaguar, African leopard, lynx, mountain lion, porcupine, raccoon, snapping turtle and wolf. For most of these talons we also offer museum quality skull replicas. Complete listings can be found in the replica section.
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Mammal Scat Replicas
Life size, realistic replicas cast from field collected scat. Perfect for “who was here” discussions, learning food preferences or predator/prey relationships. Detail is incredible, down to seed or fiber texture. Molded using tough vinyl polymers.
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Scat Displays and Reference Materials
Scat samples provide valuable clues both to the presence of an animal as well as diet preferences. These unique collections of real scat feature a mix of both invertebrate and vertebrate scats. Each specimen has been carefully freeze-dried and sealed within a 16" X 12" glass-topped exhibit case. Silhouettes of each animal appear alongside the scat sample. Also included in this section are reference materials for identifying scat samples in the field.
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Tooth Replicas, Activities and References
Replicas found in this section include tooth replicas of megalodon shark, great white shark, sperm whale, alligator, coyote, beaver, African lion, hippotomus, mountain gorilla, baboon, human and grizzly bear.
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Bat Activity Books, Houses, Multimedia
Comprehensive selection of activity books, multimedia resources and references on bats. Includes a wide selection of bat houses, bat skull replicas, and recordings of bat echolocation sounds.
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Wolf, Coyote and Fox Adventures
Includes as wide selection of activity books, videos and references on wolves, coyotes and fox. Also wolf, coyote and fox skull replicas and teeth.
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Cat Reference Books, DVDs, Replicas
Includes activity books, DVD's and references on cougar (mountain lions), bobcat, lynx and other cat species. Also available are cougar and bobcat skull replicas, claws, track replicas, track molds, and mountain lion and bobcat scat replicas.
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Bear Activity Books, DVDs, Replicas
In this section you will find an array of children's books, DVD's and replicas focusing on bears. Also books on avoiding unwanted encounters with bears in the wild. Includes black bear and grizzly bear skull replicas and claws as well as track and scat replicas and molds.
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Moose, Deer, Elk and Caribou Explorations
Features activity books, children's books, puppets and reference books on deer, moose, elk and caribou. Also deer skull replicas, moose, elk, caribou and deer tracks and scat replicas.
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Marine Mammal Activity Books, DVDs, and Games
Resources for studying marine mammals, including whales, porpoise, dolphin, seals, sea lions and sea otters. Also included are skull replicas of marine mammals along with sperm whale tooth replicas and the popular Krill, a Whale of a Game marine food chain game.
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Marine Mammal Replicas
Selection of marine mammals and their young, including bottlenose dolphin adult and calf, orca adult and calf, gray whale adult and calf, humpback whale adult, and beluga whale adult and calf. These accurate, durable, hand-painted plastic models will last for years. All replicas meet European testing standards (which are stricter than US standards).
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Mammal Puppets
Includes a wide selection of creative, durable, anatomically accurate mammal puppets.
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