The Animal Diversity Web (ADW) is a non-profit group that hosts an online database site that collects natural history, classification, species characteristics, conservation biology, and distribution information on species of animals.
The local, relational database is written and maintained by staff and student contributors from the University of Michigan.
[5] As of June 2022[update], the site contained records for approximately 2,150 animal species, represented by 11,500 images and 725 sounds.
[8] The BioKIDS Critter Catalog, created by the University of Michigan, provides a simplified version of the animal accounts.
[10] The current staff of the Animal Diversity Web is employed at the University of Michigan (as of 2017[update]):