Featured lesson: How do animals move?

Animals use different movements to get from place to place. For example, cheetahs run, rabbits hop, orangutans swing and bats fly!

Watch the film How do animals move? to discover the various ways animals move around. In this video you'll Meet the Mount Lyell salamander! Most of the time this tiny animal walks around on four legs, but sometimes he rolls!

Do you know there's an animal who can glide up to 50 meters using the flaps on either side of their body? Watch our film to meet the Sugarglider!

Take part in our starter activity by acting like an animal! Can you hop like a kangaroo? Slither like a snake? Run like a lion? Join in and show off your best animal moves!

Learn more about how animals move in our lesson: How do animals move?

Topical science: Scientists Film Strange Octopus Behaviour

Octopuses live in most of the world's oceans. Octopuses spend most of their time alone, and don’t often come into close contact with each other. However, scientists have filmed what happens when octopuses do get close to one another, and the footage is surprising!

They filmed a species known as the “gloomy octopus” near the Australian coast. Some recordings show the octopuses throwing shells at others as they try to get near, and others show octopuses spraying sand!

Scientists are trying to find out if this behaviour shows that octopuses like to protect their peace and quiet, or whether there may be another reason behind their unusual behaviour!