# 1988 VHS • Reptiles Educational 60 FPS

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.

- Kind: Educational
- Year: 1988
- By: The Vista Group®
- Genres: Education
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/TheVistaGroup-ReptilesEducational1998)
- Licence or status: none stated by the archive
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

[Watch now](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/watch/archive/ia/TheVistaGroup-ReptilesEducational1998?play=1)