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• TLF-IDR11089

This collection of 25 digital curriculum resources allows students to investigate a range of animal behaviours - defensive behaviours; reproductive behaviours; locomotion; communication; feeding behaviours; adaptive behaviours; and nesting behaviours. Images enable students to build a picture of behaviours such as the strategies ...

• TLF-IDM008781

This is a colour graphic representing the energy and nutrient flow in a simple food chain. The Sun and organisms making up the food chain are represented in diagrammatic form. The graphic is labelled and a key to the colour-coding of energy and nutrient flows is included.

• TLF-IDR12094

This is a colour clip showing the alliance between female lions ('Panthera leo') in a pride. The females, all related, cooperate in hunting and care of the young. The clip shows that a lion's most effective weapon is not its teeth or claws but its ability to hunt in a pride. There is footage of female lions cooperating ...

• TLF-IDR10703

This collection of 24 digital curriculum resources is organised into categories of insects, arachnids, centipedes and crustaceans, with descriptions of their sometimes bizarre body features and behaviours in a category titled body structure and adaptations. Colour photographs, scientific illustrations and close-up microscope ...

• TLF-IDR11778

The brown falcon in this photograph is perched up in a tree on a leafless branch. From its vantage point, it can search for prey on the ground. Some of its hunting features are long sharp talons, large eyes and a hooked beak for tearing prey apart.

• TLF-IDR12146

This is a clip showing a peregrine falcon ('Falco peregrinus') in flight, soaring through the sky and swooping to capture its prey, a pigeon. This short clip focuses on the speed of the sprint flight champion falcon and the use of its body to optimise its hunting abilities. The clip is 1 minute 17 seconds in length. (Classification ...

• TLF-IDR3477

This is a colour photograph of a swarm of Christmas beetles ('Anoplognathus' sp) feeding on foliage. (Classification - Phylum: Arthropoda, Class: Hexapoda, Order: Coleoptera, Family: Scarabaeidae.)

• TLF-IDR3492

This is a close-up colour photograph of the head of a female goliath stick insect ('Eurycnema goliath') revealing details such as eyes, antennae and markings. (Classification - Phylum: Arthropoda, Class: Hexapoda, Order: Phasmatodea, Family: Phasmatidae.)

• TLF-IDR4910

This is a colour photograph of European wasps ('Vespula germanica') in a nest comprised of a complex of individual hexagonal cells. A single queen wasp (centre) and several worker wasps are in the nest and some larvae are also present within the cells. (Classification - Phylum: Arthropoda, Class: Hexapoda, Order: Hymenoptera, ...

• TLF-IDR5645

This is an excerpt from a black-and-white film about shooting and trapping crocodiles in the north of Australia in 1933. It was filmed and directed by Noel Monkman. A soundtrack of strings, often plucked to heighten tension, backs the commentary. Two men stretch a net across a lagoon. They drag the net down the length of ...