Catch up on the latest news about the Zoo’s 7-month-old Andean bear cubs, Ian and
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Collaborating with the Smithsonian’s National Zoo’s animal care team, they designed
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Always free of charge, the Smithsonian’s National Zoo is one of Washington D.C.’s – The Zoo instills a lifelong commitment to conservation through engaging experiences
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Henkel’s leaf-tailed gecko recently underwent treatment for skin cancer at the Zoo’s
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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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Jenny Santiestevan is responsible for overseeing the care, preservation and management of biological frozen collections, mainly from threatened animal species, stored at the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute’s biorepository in Front Royal, Virginia. Collections maintained in the facility are from other Smithsonian units as well as other institutions. Prior to her work with the Smithsonian, Santiestevan worked as a licensed veterinary technician for domestic animals and as a clinical laboratory technician and manager.
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Get the latest scoop on Asian elephant Spike from animal keeper Amanda Bobyack.
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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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