Questions and answers

A free website where children explore animals: each animal has a page with pictures, its sound, easy facts and a map of where it lives. There are also 13 learning games, a sound library, videos and My Zoo, where children collect badges. Everything is available in 10 languages.

Children from about 3 to 10. The youngest tap pictures and listen, while older children read the facts and play the hard levels. Every game has an easy, a medium and a hard level, so the whole family can play together.

The button uses the voice built into your phone, tablet or computer, so nothing is sent to us. If the button does not appear, your device has no voice for that language yet: you can usually add one in its language or accessibility settings.

Any recent phone, tablet or computer with an up-to-date browser such as Chrome, Safari, Edge or Firefox. You can also add the site to your home screen from the browser menu, and it will open like an app.

Yes. There are no chats, comments or public profiles, children never need an account, ads are tagged as being for children, and every video is checked by a grown-up before it appears. Read more on our safety page.

Without an account, nothing: My Zoo progress stays in your own browser. With a parent account we keep only a nickname, an animal avatar and game progress for each child, never a real name, a date of birth or a photo. See our children's privacy notice.

Every video comes from a trusted channel such as National Geographic or BBC Earth, and a member of our team watches it before it is published. We leave out scenes that could upset young children. Videos only load when tapped, in YouTube's privacy-enhanced mode.

No. Everything works without one. A free parent account is useful if you want to keep your children's progress on several devices or receive a short weekly summary by email. Only adults can create an account.

Without an account, choose "Start my zoo again" in My Zoo or clear your browser's data for the site. With an account, you can download or delete everything in the account area; deleting removes every child profile at once. You can also write to [email protected].

From zoos, museums, scientific databases and conservation organisations, such as the San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance, the Smithsonian's National Zoo, Animal Diversity Web and the IUCN Red List. Every fact shows its source, and a reviewer checks it before it is published.

Thank you for telling us! Use the contact form and choose "A mistake in a fact or page". Please tell us which animal or page it is. We check every report against the sources and correct the page as soon as possible.

AnimalWorld Kids is free for everyone. A few child-safe ads pay for running the site. They are chosen by the page's subject, never by what your child did before, they are always labelled, and they never appear inside games or quizzes.