1988 VHS • Reptiles Educational 60 FPS

About

Reptiles is an early-childhood science educational video presenting basic facts about multiple animal groups through narration, live animal footage, and original songs. The program is structured as a series of stand-alone segments, each covering a different animal class. The reptiles segment explains the defining characteristics of reptiles: dry scaly or shelled skin, short or absent legs with clawed toes, internal backbones, lung breathing, and cold-bloodedness. Live footage illustrates snakes slithering, alligators, and various lizards basking in sunlight, along with a segment on self-defense strategies including teeth, hard shells, and burrowing. The hatchling-independence of most reptile species is specifically noted.

The amphibians segment covers the life cycle of frogs, toads, and salamanders, emphasizing the transition from aquatic gill-breathing larvae to lung-breathing adults capable of living on land. A third segment, visible in the closing minutes, covers birds, including feather function, wing structure, bill diversity, nesting behavior, migratory navigation, and flocking. Each animal class is introduced and reviewed with a call-and-response song designed for young viewers. The tape is part of a larger educational series on animals.

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Archive

Internet Archive, in The VHS Vault

Licence or status

The Internet Archive states none for this item.

Credit

The Vista Group®

Language

English

Subtitles

English (automatic)

Who can watch

The archive gives no rating. Invisible Network shows it to Tweens profiles and older, judged from its collection and subjects. How films are placed