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.
Animal care staff have extensive experience with both mother-reared and hand-reared
As their native habitat continues to shrink, wild cheetahs are facing a drought of genetic diversity. This is in direct contrast with the population of cheetahs in zoos, which is as genetically diverse as it was 30 years ago because of cooperative and strategically managed breeding programs.
Females, on the other hand, mature between 24-30 months of age.
Training tigers to show their teeth and preening prickly porcupines is all in a day’s work for keeper Dell Guglielmo!
We will hand feed each porcupine his or her leaf-eater biscuits; it is a good opportunity
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?
Panama Amphibian Rescue and Conservation Project, we need to have live prey on hand
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.
Image: With hand motions, they direct us left and right to make sure the net
In March and April, keepers at the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute in Front Royal, Virginia, celebrated the arrival of two male kiwi chicks! Get to know them in this update from the bird team.
Maori, on the other hand, is more relaxed in their presence.
Roads can be a dangerous challenge for terrestrial and arboreal wildlife. One scientist is trying to change that.
post-doctoral fellows and the conservation research they are supporting through first-hand
Take a look behind the scenes as animal care teams provide an endless bamboo buffet to the Zoo’s new giant pandas.
After chopping hundreds of pieces of bamboo by hand, the team will sort it, then
Giant pandas Tian Tian, Mei Xiang and Xiao Qi Ji are settling in nicely in their new home at the China Conservation and Research Center for the Giant Panda’s ShenShuPing Campus.
He rubbed his head on the mesh near my hand before continuing to investigate his
Happy national panda day! Here at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo’s Asia Trail exhibit, we are celebrating with giant pandas Mei Xiang and Tian Tian, as well as our red panda pair, Asa and Jackie.
When we give Jackie the hand signal to “stand up,” we examine his belly for any lumps
