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Fantastic Wildebeests and Where to Find Them | Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute

https://nationalzoo.si.edu/conservation-ecology-center/news/fantastic-wildebeests-and-where-find-them

It’s not easy to be low on the food chain. But white-bearded wildebeests face a threat even greater than lions and leopards. Habitat loss and fragmentation are causing an alarming collapse in their numbers, says Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute scientist Jared Stabach. In March, he traveled to Kenya to join University of Glasgow and Kenya Wildlife Service colleagues track how these fantastic ‘beests’ are faring when food is scarce.
What most folks don’t realize is that many wildebeest populations have experienced

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Lemur leaf frog | Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute

https://nationalzoo.si.edu/animals/lemur-leaf-frog

Lemur leaf frogs, also called lemur tree frogs, are small, critically endangered frogs native to Central America. Their bright, yellow-green skin helps them camouflage among leaves during the day. At night, when these nocturnal frogs are most active, their skin turns brown.
Leaf frogs have thin bodies, arms and legs, and their fingers and toes are not webbed

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Tracking Takhi on the Steppe | Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute

https://nationalzoo.si.edu/conservation-ecology-center/news/tracking-takhi-steppe

In September, Conservation Ecology Center Postdoctoral Research Fellow John McEvoy traveled to Mongolia to track wolves and to study the movement behavior of reintroduced Przewalski’s horses—the last of the truly wild horse species. The following is an excerpt from his travel log.
Image: After going extinct in the wild in the 1960s, they have been successfully

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Black-necked stilt | Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute

https://nationalzoo.si.edu/animals/black-necked-stilt

Black-necked stilts are a tall, medium-size shorebird with black-and-white coloration, long pink legs, a long neck, and a straight black bill. They spend most of their days gracefully darting along shorelines and wetlands and wading in shallow water. 
In relation to body size, they have the longest legs compared to any other bird aside

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