Grzimek's Animal Life Encyclopedia is a large comprehensive encyclopedia of animal life, that is named after its original editor in chief Bernhard Grzimek.

Originally it was published as a 13 volume set in German under the name Grzimeks Tierleben (Grzimek's animal life) in 1967-1972 and it was translated into English in 1972-75. The encyclopedia was an international collaboration by a large number of scientist among them Theodor Haltenorth, Wolfgang Gewalt, Heinz-Georg Klös, Konrad Lorenz, Heinz Heck, Lutz Heck, Jean Dorst, Constantine Walter Benson, Irenäus Eibl-Eibesfeldt, Helmut Sick, Heini Hediger, Erich Thenius, Erna Mohr, Adolf Portmann, Nagamichi Kuroda, Lester L. Short, Gerlof Fokko Mees, Andrew John Berger. It was later extensively updated and finally republished as a 2nd edition (17 volumes) under the supervision of Michael Hutchins in 2003. Some university libraries offer access to a digitized version of the 2nd edition. The German edition also published 3 supplementary volumes: Entwicklungsgeschichte der Lebewesen (history of life), Verhaltensforschung (behavioural research) and Unsere Umwelt als Lebensraum - Ökologie (Our environment as living space - ecology).

Contents 1 Online Portal 2 Volumes 3 See also 4 External links

[edit] Online Portal

In Fall 2009, Gale Cengage released a web-based version of the encyclopedia, with access to the web site given on a subscription basis. The site allows for user input on tasks such as rating articles or submitting videos and photography.

[edit] Volumes

• Volume 1: Lower Metazoans and Lesser Deuterostomes
• Volume 2: Protostomes
• Volume 3: Insects
• Volume 4-5: Fish
• Volume 6: Amphibians
• Volume 7: Reptiles
• Volume 8-11: Birds
• Volume 12-16: Mammals
• Volume 17: Index

[edit] See also

• Brehms Tierleben

[edit] External links

• Compilation of Reviews
• Grzimek's Animal Life - Promotional page for Grzimek's Animal Life Online Portal