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.
There is no imminent danger to Zoo guests or general public.
In celebration of Squirrel Appreciation Day on Jan. 21, here are six facts to get you better acquainted with the Prevost’s squirrel.
excited, and they use loud whistles to locate fellow squirrels or warn them of danger
UPDATE: David Wildt passed away on January 15, 2020. His obituary is available here.
Projects Image: Carnivores An estimated 25 percent of carnivores are in danger
From whiskers to flippers and a penchant for fish, seals and sea lions have a lot in common. So how can you tell these pinnipeds apart?
These noisy pinnipeds bark to mark their territory and signal danger.
Smithsonian scientists and partners believe genetic diversity could hold the key to saving amphibians from Ranavirus, a pathogen that is particularly devastating to frogs and toads in the U.S.
around the world are vanishing due to infectious disease, and many species are in danger
Nucharin Songsasen is a Research Biologist and the Center Head of the Center for Species Survival. She joined the Smithsonian in 2002 when offered the opportunity to study the reproductive biology of domestic and wild carnivores. Over the years, she built the Global Canid Conservation Program and expanded this conservation and research initiative from a laboratory setting to field conservation in range countries, including Brazil and Thailand.
Projects Image: Carnivores An estimated 25 percent of carnivores are in danger
As frogs around the world continue to disappear—many killed by a rapidly spreading disease called chytridiomycosis, which attacks the skin cells of amphibians—one critically endangered species has received an encouraging boost.
Rescue and Conservation Project is to rescue amphibian species that are in extreme danger
Find the answers to some of the most-searched questions about black-footed ferrets, North America’s only native ferret species!
They use a loud chatter to sound an alarm in the presence of danger and a hiss to
The green aracari is a tropical bird named for its dark green back, wing and tail feathers. Its large bill is bright red, yellow and blue with a serrated edge.
They vocalize during mating rituals and to warn of danger.
The domestic chicken has a small head, short beak and wings, and a round body perched on featherless legs. It is a subspecies of the red junglefowl, a species native to southern Asia.
National Zoo in that they are domesticated animals and are not threatened or in danger
