Saying animal videos are popular on the Internet is an understatement.I will admit to have fallen into a time vortex, or at least wandered from my original search engine query, to a video or videos of animals.There is no shortage of commercial, education, and user created video content with a focus on animals.Videos are often emailed and shared among families, friends, and colleagues.There is an organic and automatic community built around them.The nature of these videos proposes a challenge: How do you move beyond the popular and viral videos and find high quality, vetted, yet accessible material?There are many sites that cater to this community, but one example that should rise to the top of educators' lists for their content, quality, and partnerships is ARKive: Images of Life on Earth (http:// www.arkive.org).The web has certainly provided a platform for animal lovers, conservationists, zoologists, scientists, environmentalists, photographers, photojournalists, academics, botanists, instructors, and videographers to reach a wide demographic and to make nature studies and documentation collaborative and cooperative.By looking at ARKive critically and from both the search interface and the back end we can see the standards and partnerships developed to create a robust media resource.ARKive is an excellent resource for teachers, lecturers, librarians, students, and instructional technologists from the point of view of usability and content.I will explain the authoritative measures the creators and partners have created to ensure vibrant media, educational content, and parameters of taxonomy and search terms.Known as a digital "Noah's Ark." 1 , ARKive is a publicly funded digital library focusing on endangered species and aimed at the general
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