Thursday, October 20, 2016

Three cottages for coloring


Description of Coloring Page: doors, windows, roofs, landscaping, homes where people live, trees, lawn, chimney, gates, stone wall



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Wednesday, October 19, 2016

Color the little boy and his hobby horse

Description of Coloring Page: little boy, old lady, toy hobby horse, countryside, meadow, fields, cane, Mother Goose Rhyme

I had a little hobby-horse,
And it was dapple grey;
Its head was made of peastraw,
Its tail was made of hay.
I sold it to an old woman
For a copper groat;
And I'll not sing my song again
Without a new coat.
I had a little pony,
His name was Dapple-gray,
I lent him to a lady,
To ride a mile away;
She whipped him, she slashed him,
She rode him through the mire;
I would not lend my pony now
For all the lady's hire.

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Watch this toy maker craft a hobby horse.

Color a crooked man and a crooked stile...

Description of the coloring page: "There Was a Crooked Man" is an English nursery rhyme. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 4826.
There was a crooked man, and he walked a crooked mile.
He found a crooked sixpence upon a crooked stile.
He bought a crooked cat, which caught a crooked mouse,
And they all lived together in a little crooked house.
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Mother is singing "Rock-a-bye Baby"

Description of the coloring page: cradle, baby, sleeping, mother rocking, wooden floors, curtain and window, old song

Alternate Lyrics as shown in The Real Mother Goose published in 1916:
Rock-a-bye, baby, thy cradle is green;
Father's a nobleman, mother's a queen;
And Betty's a lady, and wears a gold ring;
And Johnny's a drummer, and drums for the king.
The most common version used today is:
Rock-a-bye baby, on the treetop,
When the wind blows, the cradle will rock,
When the bough breaks, the cradle will fall,
And down will come baby, cradle and all.
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She's dreaming of Mother Goose


Description of the coloring page: dance, toys, bed, sleep, Mother Goose and characters from nursery rhymes, window, wallpaper

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Identify and color the parts of a rattlesnake

Description of the coloring page: fangs, deadly poison, topography of snake head, venom gland

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An adult mudpuppy for coloring

Description of Coloring Page: The common mudpuppy (Necturus maculosus) is a species of salamander in the genus Necturus. They live an entirely aquatic lifestyle in the eastern part of North America in lakes, rivers, and ponds. They go through paedomorphosis and retain their external gills, thus resembling axolotls. Because skin and lung respiration alone is not sufficient for gas exchange, mudpuppies must rely on external gills as their primary means of gas exchange. They are usually a rusty brown color and can grow to an average length of 33 cm (13 in). Mudpuppies are nocturnal creatures, and only come out during the day if the water in which they live is murky. Their diets consist of almost anything they can get in their mouths, including insects, earthworms, mollusks, and annelids. Once a female mudpuppy reaches sexual maturity, at six years of age, she can lay an average of 60 eggs. In the wild, the average lifespan of a mudpuppy is 11 years. Because of their prevalence and larger size than other salamanders, mudpuppies are good organisms for dissections. Read more... 
 
Oh, what a sweet little mudpuppy! Watch him 
swim in the stream before you color him in.

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Color this swamp toad from India

Description of Coloring Page: warts, webbed feet, sticky, large mouth, toad

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Tuesday, October 18, 2016

Color this shy cave salamander

Description of Coloring Page: Several salamanders that primarily or exclusively inhabit caves have commonly been termed "cave salamanders". Some of these animals have developed special, even extreme, adaptations to their subterranean environments. These adaptations include rudimentary (or even absent) eyes—thus the related term "blind salamanders"—or absence of pigmentation, rendering them a pale yellowish or pinkish color. Read more...

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This little cave salamander is from Ohio. He has lovely skin.

A slithering fox snake can be fun to color


Description of Coloring Page: Fox snake or Foxsnake is the common name given to two species of North American rat snakes: the western fox snake (Pantherophis vulpinus) and the eastern fox snake (Pantherophis gloydi). Neither poses a threat to humans, but is killed by many people who mistake it for the venomous massasauga rattlesnake (Sistrurus catenatus), which shares parts of its geographic range with both species of fox snakes. Read more...

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"As if thousands of rare water snakes were’t enough, North Bass Island is also home to one of the most beautiful and quite possibly friendliest snakes around, the Fox Snake. While they can be found on the ground they are also known to scale trees in search of bird eggs or to warm up in the sun, and that's just where Coyote finds one…get ready, today we're going tree climbing!"

A coloring page of the Natterjack toad

Description of Coloring Page: The natterjack toad (Bufo calamita) is a toad native to sandy and heathland areas of Europe. Adults are 60–70 mm in length and are distinguished from common toads by a yellow line down the middle of the back, and parallel paratoid glands. They have relatively short legs, and this gives them a distinctive gait, contrasting with the hopping movement of many other toad species. Read more...

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"Ellie heads to the coast to try to find some natterjack toads (Epidalea calamita) and investigate their conservation."

Amphibians, Crocodiles and Reptile Coloring Index

Samples of reptile coloring pages found in this index.
Amphibians are ectothermic, tetrapod vertebrates of the class Amphibia. Modern amphibians are all Lissamphibia. They inhabit a wide variety of habitats, with most species living within terrestrial, fossorial, arboreal or freshwater aquatic ecosystems. Thus amphibians typically start out as larvae living in water, but some species have developed behavioral adaptations to bypass this. The young generally undergo metamorphosis from larva with gills to an adult air-breathing form with lungs. Amphibians use their skin as a secondary respiratory surface and some small terrestrial salamanders and frogs lack lungs and rely entirely on their skin. They are superficially similar to lizards but, along with mammals and birds, reptiles are amniotes and do not require water bodies in which to breed. With their complex reproductive needs and permeable skins, amphibians are often ecological indicators; in recent decades there has been a dramatic decline in amphibian populations for many species around the globe. Read more...
Crocodiles (subfamily Crocodylinae) or true crocodiles are large aquatic reptiles that live throughout the tropics in Africa, Asia, the Americas and Australia. Crocodylinae, all of whose members are considered true crocodiles, is classified as a biological subfamily. A broader sense of the term crocodile, Crocodylidae that includes Tomistoma, is not used in this article. The term crocodile here applies only to the species within the subfamily of Crocodylinae. The term is sometimes used even more loosely to include all extant members of the order Crocodilia, which includes Tomistoma, the alligators and caimans (family Alligatoridae), the gharials (family Gavialidae), and all other living and fossil Crocodylomorpha. Read more...
Reptiles are tetrapod animals in the class Reptilia, comprising today's turtles, crocodilians, snakes, amphisbaenians, lizards, tuatara, and their extinct relatives. The study of these traditional reptile orders, historically combined with that of modern amphibians, is called herpetology.
       Because some reptiles are more closely related to birds than they are to other reptiles (e.g., crocodiles are more closely related to birds than they are to lizards), the traditional groups of "reptiles" listed above do not together constitute a monophyletic grouping (or clade). For this reason, many modern scientists prefer to consider the birds part of Reptilia as well, thereby making Reptilia a monophyletic class. Read more...
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