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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.
August 28, 2023 Can Sand Cats Survive Without Water?
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.
protects against sunburn while enlarged hooves enable the oryx to walk easily on sand
On Peru’s pacific coastline, where desert meets sea, lives one of the least studied and most at-risk birds: the Peruvian tern. This bird’s desert camouflage makes it almost impossible to track, but that’s exactly what our team set out to do.
“Paracas” means “sand rain” in Quechua, the Andean native language, and when it “
We’ve answered some of the most-searched questions about ostriches to get you better acquainted with these big, flightless birds.
Does an ostrich really bury its head in the sand?
Famous from innumerable trips to the seaside as well as Pixar’s short film Piper, sanderlings are the most prevalent sandpiper in the world. On almost any gentle, sandy beach, the little birds you see running back and forth are probably going to be sanderlings.
Food/Eating Habits Sanderlings run along shorelines, pecking at the wet sand left
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explore the outdoors, and take Charlie to the zoo to visit his favorite animal, the sand
Banded leporinus are torpedo-shaped, striped yellow and black freshwater fish found primarily in the creeks and streams of the Amazon River basin in Brazil, Colombia and Venezuela where they feed on plants, fruits and leaves.
Adults will seek shelter in sand holes in this environment.
As part of the Explorations in Engineering program at Foxcroft School in Middleburg, Virginia, students had a rare opportunity to help Smithsonian scientists save two critically endangered species: pangolins and scimitar-horned oryx.
materials but, eventually, filled the mold with a mixture of fiberglass resin and sand
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.
Snakes have adapted to climb trees, leap across hot sand, and even swim through water
Sea lions are large, gregarious mammals found along the western coast of North America. In the water, their torpedo-shaped bodies can reach speeds of 25 to 30 mph!
behavioral means to cool off, such as resting with a flipper in the water, flipping sand
