Snot otter, devil dog, or hellbender? Whatever name you call them, they are largest salamander in the Americas. Check out how animal keeper Matt Neff cares for and studies these unique salamanders!
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Henkel’s leaf-tailed gecko recently underwent treatment for skin cancer at the Zoo’s
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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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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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Tricia Rowlison is a research specialist at the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute’s Center for Species Survival. Rowlison’s research focuses on investigating sperm maturation in the domestic cat model. Specifically, she is analyzing the secretion of small vesicles within the male’s reproductive tract, termed „epididymosomes.“
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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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An elegant, graceful antelope (which may be behind the legend of the unicorn), the scimitar-horned oryx is supremely adapted to desert life. Currently extinct in the wild, conservation scientists are working on reintroduction programs in Tunisia, Chad and Niger.
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Why do animals need teeth? How do they use their teeth? And how do they keep them healthy just like we do?
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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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