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.
July 21, 2017 Keepers Hand-Raising Dama Gazelle Calf at Smithsonian Conservation
The Kori bustard is bird native to the eastern and southern grasslands of Africa. This species weighs in at 40 pounds, making them the world’s heaviest flying bird. Unfortunately, it is also considered near threatened by the International Union for Conservation of Nature.
June 26, 2015 Kori Bustard Chick Q&A Bird House curator Sara Hallager has hand-raised
They’re goofy, sweet and superstars at training — meet Ronnie and Bradley, the Smithsonian’s National Zoo’s siamangs! These apes may be small in stature, but their endearing personalities (and booming calls) make their presence felt far beyond Gibbon Ridge.
Brachiating — swinging hand-over-hand through the branches—and other impressive acrobatic
Primate keeper Melba Brown says western lowland gorilla infant Moke’s big (and often, humorous) personality is beginning to emerge.
Image: Image: Give primates a hand: which cast belongs to a gorilla, and
Moke is six months old and, for the first time, keepers observed him taking his first steps in the outdoor yard independent of his mother!
He stuck close by her side, at times touching Calaya’s hand, as he stood up, walked
We can examine her head, brow, ears, hands, feet, back, chest, belly, arms, shoulders
exhibited a rather gruff personality and she would routinely grunt and throw her hand
In June, SCBI scientists and partners fitted the ossicones of 11 reticulated giraffes with GPS collars that send hourly data to researchers via satellite.
We’ll have this information on hand when the government asks what it can do for the
Two-year-old Stanley crane Alice seems to enjoy participating in daily demonstrations with keepers and Zoo visitors. But how does she really feel about these interactions?
Her parents would reject her if we put her in their enclosure, so hand-raising Alice
Moke is 5 months old! Check out primate keeper Melba Brown’s latest update on our western lowland gorillas.
I will gently touch his head, hand, or foot and say the name of the body part as
Behind the scenes at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo, the sweet tweets of chirping chicks are music to the Bird House team’s ears. While their homestead exhibit is under renovation, the team has been busy researching, perfecting and literally writing the book of North American songbird and shorebird husbandry. The result? A bird baby boom—34 chicks among 11 species, and counting! Hear from curator Sara Hallager and keepers Heather Anderson, Stacy Hill, Kathy Brader and Shelby Burns why summer 2020 truly is for the birds.
Our female was hand raised by keepers; she was thrown out of her mother’s nest at
