Presentation on wildlife, habitat, domestication and microscopic creatures for good measure. Prepared for elementary school age children in Spokane WA.

1. What is wildlife?

2. Wildlife includes all
animals that have not
been domesticated by
people

3. What does
domesticated mean?

4. • animals that humans have kept in
captivity and bred for special
purposes.

7. This is a dust mite.
It’s habitat is bedding, pillows and furniture.
It’s not even a millimeter large.

11. Wildlife can be:
• spiders
• insects
• amphibians
• fish
• birds
• mammals
• microscopic creatures

12. Final test. . .

14. Wildlife can be:
• silent
• invisible to us

15. He’s called a water bear. . .
Scientists have reported their existence in hot
springs, on top of the Himalayas, under 5 m of
solid ice and in ocean sediments!

16. Let’s find some wildlife!
• Right here.
• Right now.

17. Explore the room.
Look for:
• Spider webs
• dead insects near lights
• inset holes along baseboards and behind
books
• ????

18. What did you find?

19. Sometimes. . .
• We share the same environment and we
don’t even know it

20. What’s an animal?
• any living organism other than. . .

21. a plant!

22. Any living organism other than a plant.

23. What’s wild?

24. • An animal that lives in a natural state,
provides for its own food, shelter, and other
needs in a suitable habitat.

26. Wildlife is also:
• an animal that is not domesticated or
tame

27. What does
domesticated mean?

28. • animals that humans have kept in
captivity and bred for special
purposes.

29. All domesticated
animals have their
origins in wild
ancestors.

30. • A 33,000 year old dog skull found in a cave
in Siberia.
• It shows some of the earliest evidence of
domestication. . .it lived during the last Ice
Age.

31. • The Greeks had domesticated dogs over
2,000 years ago.

32. Cattle, sheep, and pigs
are domesticated.

33. Tame animals are “pets”
• All domesticated animals are not pets, only
some of them. . .like your dog or your cat
or your fish!

34. How do we know it’s
wild?
• If it can live on its own, survive and even
reproduce, it is probably wild.

36. People and Wildlife
• share the same environment.

37. What is a habitat?

38. Shelter

39. • Food

40. • water

41. • space

42. • shelter, food, water
and space
• different for an animal

43. Let’s see for ourselves.