The Zoo’s Growing Pride | Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute https://nationalzoo.si.edu/conservation/news/zoos-growing-pride
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Look at these pictures of the cubs the keepers got this week. The keepers can already tell which markings they’ll use to tell the cubs apart.Can you find one or two distinctive markings to distinguish one from the other?
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One of the defining and iconic characteristics that makes giant pandas unique among bears is their diet — bamboo. They evolved to eat bamboo, which is a type of grass, and although it makes up about 99 percent of their diet, pandas have the gastrointestinal tract of a carnivore.
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Catch up on the latest news about the Zoo’s 7-month-old Andean bear cubs, Ian and
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In August 2019, Reptile Discovery Center keeper Matt Neff embarked on a trip that took him across the Pacific Ocean to learn about enrichment, husbandry and breeding for the second-largest salamander species on earth: the Japanese giant salamander. Check out photos and notes from his trip!
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Scientists have established assurance colonies of amphibians at risk of extinction across Panama, and are working to reduce the impact of amphibian chytrid fungus so they may one day be reintroduced to the wild.
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„My brother suddenly passed away in December 2005. A couple days after returning from his funeral, I remembered I had timed tickets to see Tai Shan. It was the furthest thing from my mind…“
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True to its name, the smooth-sided toad is one of the few toads with smooth skin. It lives in the tropical forests of northern South America, where it eats insects and small mammals.
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Brian Evans is a quantitative ecologist at the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute’s Migratory Bird Center (SMBC), which studies and educates the public on the ecology of migratory birds. Evans’ research interests are focused on quantifying the influence of urbanization on bird populations and communities and evaluating how to effectively engage the public in the ecology and conservation of urban systems. Evans‘ projects include:
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