Tracking an animal’s weight is an important part of animal care, but gazelles are known to be flighty and nervous. So, how do keepers convince them to step onto a scale? Find out in this update from keeper Sarah Rezac.
While this may seem innocuous, a gazelle’s instincts tell it that danger could be
The red-crowned crane is one of the world’s largest cranes. It is a highly aquatic species that feeds in deeper water than other cranes.
The male takes the primary role in defending the nest against possible danger.
Whooping cranes, named for their impressively loud call, are native to North America. Once faced with extinction, they are now recovering with the help of conservation science efforts.
Vocal communication is essential for whooping cranes, and can be used to indicate danger
With the help of 3D modeling technology, a team of veterinary experts successfully carried out a rare spinal surgery on a female cheetah cub.
Kristina Delaski revealed the cub was not in immediate danger.
Three fluffy feathered friends have joined the flock at our Front Royal, Virginia, campus: one whooping crane and two red-crowned crane chicks!
communication is essential to these birds, who call to one another to indicate breeding, danger
Northern snakehead fish are native to China, Southern Siberia and North Korea and are an invasive species in North America.
Once the danger has passed, the young snakeheads rejoin the circle.
The alpaca is a small relative of the camel domesticated by Andean people for its wool. They are slender-bodied animals with long legs and necks, small heads and large, pointed ears. Alpacas are covered in a soft fleece and have soft, padded feet.
eyesight and hearing, and will alert the herd and their human keepers of perceived danger
National Bison Day is the first Saturday in November and the Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute has a big reason to celebrate these iconic animals! Wallow in the autumn leaves with the Zoo’s bison, Lucy and Gally, and animal keeper Regina Bakely, as she shares her stories and the institution’s history of caring for American bison.
They can run up to 35 miles an hour, and when they want to charge, escape danger,
Linnaeus’s two-toed sloths, also called Linné’s two-toed sloths, have coarse fur, long limbs and big, curved claws. They live in the tropical rainforests of Central America and northern South America, and spend most of their time in the tree canopy.
Two-toed sloths are in serious danger of losing their habitat due to logging of rainforests
Brown pelicans are found along both coasts of North America. Though once threatened by the insecticide DDT, they were one of the first species to recover from the effects and have since been removed from the Endangered Species List.
listed the brown pelican as an endangered species meaning that it was considered in danger
