Add a little sunshine to a gray winter day with a trip to the Smithsonian’s National Zoo. There’s still plenty to see from December through March. This guide will help you plan for a cold-weather visit.
orangutans using the O-Line, because orangutans, lemurs
Anna Feistner is a conservation biologist at the Center for Conservation and Sustainability’s Gabon Biodiversity Program, based in southwestern Gabon. The Gamba Complex of Protected Areas in Gabon is high in biodiversity, including threatened and protected species (forest elephants, great apes, marine turtles) coexisting with oil and forestry concessions, as well as local communities.
support the survival of endangered fauna, especially lemurs
Focus on the Future is a series that seeks to highlight the early career scientists who conduct research at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute. Learn about undergraduate, graduate and post-doctoral fellows and the conservation research they are supporting through first-hand accounts and stories.
for graduate school to study behavioral ecology in lemurs
The cool new couple at Gibbon Ridge are smart, sweet and specialize in singing duets — meet siamangs Adi and Guntur!
(Siamangs are small apes and, unlike monkeys and lemurs
At the Reptile Discovery Center, keepers play matchmaker to true masters of disguise: Henkel’s leaf-tailed geckos!
Whether the groups work to protect lemurs or geckos
Here’s why eating poop can sometimes be good for animal health—and how the practice is even becoming an important part of human and animal medicine.
animals, from rabbits and dogs to salamanders and lemurs
Hop into caring for and discovering new things about Bennett’s wallabies with animal keeper Esther Wray!
including naked mole-rats, tamanduas, red-ruffed lemurs
Did you know that the fuzzier an animal is, the better it picks up pollen? Or that most pollination happens by happy accident? Get the buzz on pollinators from Donna Stockton, an entomologist and animal keeper at Amazonia.
they forage for fruits and flowers, pollen sticks to lemurs
As the primate team celebrates Moke’s second birthday, keeper Alex Reddy reflects on the western lowland gorilla’s growing independence, bold personality and training triumphs.
asked whether our orangutans, gorillas, gibbons or lemurs
