'''ZipcodeZoo''' is a free, online encyclopedia intended to document all living [[species]] and [[infraspecies]] known to science.<ref>http://zipcodezoo.com/index.php</ref> It is compiled from existing databases. It offers one page for each living species, supplementing text with video, sound, and images where available. ZipcodeZoo.com was launched in 2004, four years before the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encyclopedia_of_Life Encyclopedia of Life]] was launched.
Like [[https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Animal_Diversity_Web Animal Diversity Web]], ZipcodeZoo is an online [[database]] that collects the [[natural history]], [[Biological classification|classification]], [[species]] characteristics, [[conservation biology]], and [[Range (biology)|distribution]] [[information]] of thousands of species and [[infraspecies]]. It includes over 800,000 [[photographs]], 50,000 [[videos]], 160,000 [[media clip|sound clip]]s, and a 3.2 million maps [[maps]] describing nearly 3.2 million species and infraspecies.
ZipcodeZoo draws on the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catalogue_of_Life Catalogue of Life]] for its basic species list, the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Biodiversity_Information_Facility Global Biodiversity Information Facility]] for its maps, [[Flickr]] for many of its photos, [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YouTube YouTube] for videos, the [http://taxonomicon.taxonomy.nl/ Taxonomicon] for taxonomic information, and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xeno-canto Xeno-canto]] for some of its sound recordings.
All the pages are published under one of the Creative Commons licenses.
