Can’t make it to a zoo? Observe animal habits and habitats using one of the many webcams broadcasting from zoos and aquariums around the United States and the world in this inquiry-based activity that focuses on observation logs, class discussion, questioning, and research. Students begin by viewing an animal webcam, making observations, and describing what [...]
May 13th, 2010 | Posted in Webcam Story | Comments Off
Can’t make it to a zoo? Observe animal habits and habitats using one of the many webcams broadcasting from zoos and aquariums around the United States and the world in this inquiry-based activity that focuses on observation logs, class discussion, questioning, and research. Students begin by viewing an animal webcam, making observations, and describing what they [...]
March 18th, 2010 | Posted in Webcam Directory, Webcam Story, webcam travel | No Comments
Innovative farmers in the ailing farm industry have been transforming their working farms into Farm Parks, and there is a difference. The whole raison d’être of farm parks is to welcome visitors, particularly children, to feed, pet, cuddle and generally enjoy baby animals. It’s a matter of out with the Friesians and in with the [...]
March 11th, 2010 | Posted in Webcam Directory, Webcam Story | No Comments
Bristol Zoo -Great Britain. Live streams of Gorillas, Birds, Rhinos and more. A great pleasure Henry Doorly Zoo -Omaha, nebraska. A controllable cam showing the penguins. Great! Buenaventura Hummin Bird Cam – Ecuador. You see an actual streaming feed of humming birds at their feeder. It’s not exactly live, but updated every day. I love [...]
March 9th, 2010 | Posted in Webcam Directory, Webcam Fun, webcam travel | No Comments
EDINBURGH, Scotland – Wildlife park employees in Scotland were celebrating Thursday the birth of a white rhinocerous — an event they would have missed without the tip of a webcam viewer. Blair Drummond Safari Park north of Edinburgh was alerted to the impending birth by a phone call from the woman thousands of miles (kilometers) [...]
February 5th, 2010 | Posted in Webcam Story | Comments Off
A PILOT trial of a webcam watching penguins at Edinburgh Zoo has been such a hit that it is to be made a permanent fixture. It was set up in June to capture the Gentoo penguins nesting and bringing up their young and has been attracting 9000 visitors a month so far. There was even [...]
September 7th, 2009 | Posted in Webcam Directory, Webcam Science, Webcam Story | Comments Off
West Midlands, UK – Visitors to Dudley Zoological Gardens in the UK can enjoy a bird’s eye view of one of the site’s endangered species thanks to a new hi-tech Penguin Cam. A camera has been set up in the enclosure housing the attraction’s colony of 70 Humboldt’s penguins, [...]
August 12th, 2009 | Posted in Webcam Directory, Webcam Installation, Webcam Story | Comments Off
123cam is the best free directory of over 15,000 webcams around the world. Rather than the still image webcams of most webcam maps all the webcams on 123cam seem to show live streaming shots of their location. The site includes Google Maps for each of the countries featured. It is therefore possible to zoom in [...]
July 7th, 2009 | Posted in Webcam Directory, Webcam Fun, Webcam Weather | Comments Off
Look at them dive! Look at them play! It’s like Big Brother for the water life set. Who doesn’t love to watch penguins? The little black and white birds can bring a smile to just about anyone. The Maritime Aquarium in Norwalk is giving you a chance to check out their ten African penguins any [...]
May 28th, 2009 | Posted in Webcam Directory, Webcam Fun, Webcam Story | Comments Off
The San Diego Zoo’s Great Ape Awareness Days start Thursday, Nov. 13 and run through Sunday. It’s a chance for guests to find out more about the zoo’s three species of great apes: gorillas, orangutans and bonobos, the most endangered. But the real draw is Frank, the baby gorilla who was born at the zoo [...]
November 14th, 2008 | Posted in Webcam Directory, Webcam Fun, Webcam Story | Comments Off