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.
Panda Cam See the Smithsonian’s National Zoo’s Giant Pandas — Bao Li and Qing Bao — live
The Great Plains Science Program is a long-term research project from the Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute.
Panda Cam See the Smithsonian’s National Zoo’s Giant Pandas — Bao Li and Qing Bao — live
Brush-tailed bettongs, also called brush-tailed rat kangaroos and woylies, are small, critically endangered, bipedal marsupials native to Australia. They have prehensile tails and are impressive diggers.
Panda Cam See the Smithsonian’s National Zoo’s Giant Pandas — Bao Li and Qing Bao — live
Siamangs are arboreal, black-furred gibbons native to the Malay Peninsula and Sumatran
Exhibit: Primates Siamang Symphalangus syndactylus Siamangs are arboreal, black-furred
Cattle are important domesticated animals that provide meat and milk. Kids‘ Farm is home to a polled Hereford heifer named Rose and a Holstein heifer named Magnolia.
Panda Cam See the Smithsonian’s National Zoo’s Giant Pandas — Bao Li and Qing Bao — live
Always free of charge, the Smithsonian’s National Zoo is one of Washington D.C.’s, and the Smithsonian’s, most popular tourist destinations, with more than 2 million visitors from all over the world each year. The Zoo instills a lifelong commitment to conservation through engaging experiences with animals and the people working to save them.
Panda Cam See the Smithsonian’s National Zoo’s Giant Pandas — Bao Li and Qing Bao — live
A 4-year-old Henkel’s leaf-tailed gecko recently underwent treatment for skin cancer at the Zoo’s veterinary hospital.
Panda Cam See the Smithsonian’s National Zoo’s Giant Pandas — Bao Li and Qing Bao — live
Panda Cam See the Smithsonian’s National Zoo’s Giant Pandas — Bao Li and Qing Bao — live
Did you know that all animals have trillions of microscopic bacteria living inside them? These communities of microbes, known as microbiomes, play an important role in keeping animals healthy.
Panda Cam See the Smithsonian’s National Zoo’s Giant Pandas — Bao Li and Qing Bao — live
On Peru’s pacific coastline, where desert meets sea, lives one of the least studied
Panda Cam See the Smithsonian’s National Zoo’s Giant Pandas — Bao Li and Qing Bao — live
