Asia Trail is home to the some of the largest continent’s most unique species: sloth bears, red pandas, Asian small-clawed otters, clouded leopards and fishing cats.
The American Bison exhibit is located adjacent to the Asia Trail Exhibit.
Poison frogs living in human care aren’t poisonous, thanks to a “detox” diet of mild insects, like crickets and fruit flies. Can adding alkaloids to a frog’s diet help it regain its toxins and get its “spice” back?
March 20, 2025 Why I’m Tracking Bison Herds Smithsonian ecologist Claire Bresnan
Goats are versatile, domesticated animals kept for meat, milk and fiber. They are intelligent, social and difficult to herd. The Smithsonian’s National Zoo exhibits Nigerian dwarf goats.
goats are members of the Bovidae family, which includes gazelles, African antelope, bison
Long-billed curlew are shorebirds that spend their summers breeding in the grasslands of Montana. Smithsonian ecologists are equipping them with GPS trackers to learn more about their movements.
March 20, 2025 Why I’m Tracking Bison Herds Smithsonian ecologist Claire Bresnan
Smithsonian scientists discuss the impact of the first federal law designed to save endangered and imperiled animals from extinction.
Act in 1973, hundreds of animal species like the bald eagle, American alligator, bison
Roads can be a dangerous challenge for terrestrial and arboreal wildlife. One scientist is trying to change that.
March 20, 2025 Why I’m Tracking Bison Herds Smithsonian ecologist Claire Bresnan
Walking through the forests of Guam the sound is arresting, because it’s silent. But the loud whistle of the Guam rail is returning to the forests of nearby islands, nearly 40 years after the bird was declared extinct in the wild,
March 20, 2025 Why I’m Tracking Bison Herds Smithsonian ecologist Claire Bresnan
Meet the loggerhead shrike—a beautiful songbird with a gruesome reputation for impaling its prey on thorns and barbs. More frightening than the “butcher bird’s” hunting habit is the reality that their populations are in steep decline. Since 2005, the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute (SCBI) has worked to breed and reintroduce this bird back into the wild. Get an inside glimpse of what it takes to care for and conserve shrikes from bird keeper Leighann Cline!
have lined their nests with fur and hair from cheetahs, Przewalski’s horses and bison
There are only 135 Guam kingfishers in the world, but scientists around the world are working to change that by breeding the species for release in the near future.
March 20, 2025 Why I’m Tracking Bison Herds Smithsonian ecologist Claire Bresnan
When a team of scientists couldn’t visit a forest to conduct research, they did it remotely, based on information made available in biodiversity databases.
March 20, 2025 Why I’m Tracking Bison Herds Smithsonian ecologist Claire Bresnan
