Our natural world is rapidly losing its diversity and abundance. To slow this loss, and to better appreciate the natural world, we must begin with local nature. ZipcodeZoo works to bring the natural world to armchair, amateur, and professional naturalists. Our focus is Applied Biogeography: understanding plants and animals in their place, perhaps even your backyard.
Based on the location of your ISP, ZipcodeZoo guesses where you live. You can improve on our guess, if you wish, by correcting the location info here. Your custom home page on the "My Home" tab below uses that location info. Everyone will see info on invasive species, species that are threatened, and all species that live in this area. Visitors from the U.S. will also see zipcode demographics, local attractions for naturalists, and the local weather.
We are working to become a proper home base for Naturalists, both amateur and professional.
We have also created 173,245 pages with text, photos, and maps for taxonomic groups from Domain down to Genus. Finding all of this can be fast, because about 3 million pages are indexed for soundex searches.
This site is big. As of Friday, November 20, 2009, this site is home to 2,646,510 web pages describing 1,296,927 animals, 1,105,424 plants, 193,639 fungi, 17,562 chromista, 16,057 protozoa, 16,112 bacteria, and 496 viruses. Pages contain 310,621 photos taken by 1,403 photographers, 1,471 sound recordings, and definitions of 236,201 terms. 104,997 Large photos can be zoomed and panned.
We have gathered a total of 127,715,643 field observations from 28,481 data sets and 1,547 data providers which show latitude and longitude, from which we have generated 256,285 State Maps, 1,142,479 Country Maps, 450,687 Google maps showing up to 200 sightings each, and 450,687 Google Earth maps showing all sightings. Click on a pinpoint on one of these maps, and you'll learn more about that observation.
Recent Animal updates: Aldabra Giant Tortoise • Babiroussa • Leopard Cat • Bengal Tiger • Asian Short-Clawed Otter • Australian Saltwater Crocodile • Giant Asian Pond Turtle • Greater Malay Chevrotain;greater Mouse Deer • Common Green Iguana • Large Flying Fox • Lion-Tailed Macaque • Lowland Nyala • Horned Ground Iguana • Long-Nosed Monkey • Indian Woodapple • Black-Crowned Night Heron • Cattle Egret / Buff-Backed Heron • Marabou Stork • Milky Stork • Goliath Palm Cockatoo • Torres Strait Imperial-Pigeon • Pink-Backed Pelican • American Rhea • Whale-Headed Stork • Saddle-Billed Stork • Scarlet Ibis • Superb Glossy-Starling • Western Crowned-Pigeon • New Zealand Mud Snail • Pewter Physa • Potbellied Helicellid • Catalina Cactussnail • Pointed Snail • Catfish • Butterfish • Longnose Snailfish • Giant East African Snail • Glossy Pillar • Crested Vertigo • Altaian Dwarf Osman • Rounded Pandora • Granular Poromya • Rostrate Cardiomya • Obese Dipperclam • Spike • Warty Venus • Boring Softshell Clam • Angelwing • Sunray Venus • Washington Butterclam • Pacific Littleneck • Thin-Shell Littleneck • Beaded Venus • Lightning Pitar • White Pitar • Waxy Gouldclam • Frilled Venus • Pygmy Venus • Purplish Tagelus • Pointed Venus • Smooth Callista • California Beanclam • Carib Pointed Venus • Purple Mahogany-Clam • Pacific False Beanclam • Corrugate Solecurtus • Apricot Tellin • Rose-Petal Tellin • Jutting Tellin • Fragile Surfclam •
Recent Plant updates: Flat-Flowered Aloe • Whortleberry Cactus • Barbara Karst Bougainvillea • Christ´s-Plant • Desert Rose • Dracaena • Edible-Seeded Mexican Dioon • Flame of the Forest • Golden Barrel Cactus • Dragon-Tree Agave • Century Plant • Hair Brush Cactus • Jamaican Poinsettia • Christmas Candlestick • Star of Lundi • Madagascar Palm • Round-Leaf Chaff-Flower • Curaçao Aloe • Hawaiian Half Flower • Zimbabwe Aloe • Octopus Agave • Pineapple Dyckia • Plumeria • Pomegranate Tree • Caterpillar-Tree • Sandpaper Fig • Dwarf Palm • West African Cycad • Zamia • Veitch’s Screw Pine • Wedge-Leaflet Fan Palm • Adams Apple • Surinam Quassia • Latanier De L’ile Ronde • Lily of the Valley Tree • Breadnut Tree • Silk-Top Thatch Palm • Giant Window Pane Palm • Hairy Gardenia • Tree Ixora • Makaleha Pritchardia • Latanier Mille-pattes • Macarthur Feather Palm • Sunshine Palm • Manambe Palm • Millionaire’s Salad • Pink-Flowered Corkwood • Asiatic Poisonbulb • Pink Cone Ginger • Fish Poison Tree • Malaya Sealing Wax Palm • Seychelles Stilt Palm • Virginia Round-Leaf Birch • Talipot Palm • Potato of the Tropics • Teddy Bear Palm • Margarita Sweet Potato Vine • Peepul Tree (Nepal) • Cannon Ball Tree • Peruvian-National-Flower • West Indians´ Cabbage Palm •
