For a few years now there has been a great National Geographic gallery available in Google Earth. One of the parts of that gallery is the Africa Megaflyover in which you can view herds of animals, natural landscape features, villages, towns, and mining/ drilling operations. If you’ve never explored the National Geographic gallery of layers in Google Earth I highly recommend it.

Today, I learned of another Google Earth file that features images of African animals. You can access that file here. I discovered the file on Frank Taylor’s Google Earth Blog.

Applications for Education
The Africa Megaflyover and images of African animals layers in Google Earth could be good layers for students to explore in geography and biology courses.

Here are some related resources that may be of interest to you:
Geography and Science Lesson Plans Using Google Earth
View Glacier Melt in Google Earth
What is Possible With Google Earth?