The Virginia opossum is the only marsupial found north of Mexico. It has a long, hairless, prehensile tail, a robust body and short legs with sharp claws.
Sheet Conservation Meet the Animals Physical Description Virginia opossums have
Goeldi’s monkeys are small primates with shaggy black hair, claw-like nails and long tails. They inhabit areas of the Amazon rainforest across southern Colombia, eastern Ecuador and Peru, western Brazil and northern Bolivia.
They have claw-like nails on all of their digits, except for their large toes.
This beautifully black-and-white streaked warbler is a migratory bird of the Americas. It can be found singing its high-pitched song as it travels from its warm wintering grounds of Central and northern South America up to the forested breeding grounds of eastern North America.
Males and females can be difficult to tell apart; however, females have white cheeks
Pallas’ cats live in dry, rocky areas throughout Central Asia. They rely on camouflage and their low-slung bodies to hunt and to hide from predators.
Sheet Conservation Meet the Animals Physical Description Pallas’s cats have
The sitatunga is a swamp-dwelling antelope native to Africa. Its splayed feet make it an accomplished swimmer. Sitatungas spend the hottest parts of the day resting in the shade of reeds on platforms of dried plants, which they build themselves by circling and trampling on vegetation.
Fact Sheet Conservation Physical Description Sitatunga have a slightly hunched
Przewalski’s horses, critically endangered horses found in Mongolia, are the last truly wild horse. Once thought to be the ancestor to the domestic horse, they are actually distant cousins. Mitochondrial DNA suggests that they diverged from a common ancestor 500,000 years ago.
They have a yellowish-white belly and dark lower legs and zebra-like stripes behind
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.
You: July 2020 Grab a delicious snack with prehensile-tailed porcupine Quilliam, have
Animal keeper Mariel Lally shares the fluffy scoop on caring for red pandas!
To encourage them to explore their outdoor enclosure, we have a water system that
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Tree shrews look remarkably similar to squirrels. They are native to Southeast Asia and are the only members of their taxonomic order.
Fact Sheet Conservation Physical Description Northern tree shrews have grayish
