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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?
True to their name, screaming hairy armadillos are a hirsute armadillo species that emit a loud squeal when threatened. They are native to the Monte Desert in South America.
These armadillos have been observed living in open areas such as sand dunes, savannas
Fennec foxes are the smallest of the canids and live in deserts and arid regions of Africa and Arabia. They have extraordinarily large ears, which help them hunt at night.
canid family, which they use to dispel heat and track down prey underneath the sand
The world’s tallest and heaviest bird, the common ostrich is native to the grasslands and savannas of Africa. These birds are completely flightless but are incredibly swift runners due to their long, strong legs—in fact, they are the fastest two-legged animals on Earth.
largest of any bird—and fine eyelashes that help protect their eyes from dust and sand
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
There’s a new, adorable face at Kids’ Farm—an 11-month-old Hereford calf named Willow! Get to know her in this Q&A with animal keeper Nikki Maticic.
wheelbarrows that keepers are using to clean the yards and will sometimes kick up sand
As we continue our Elephant Trails photo blog series, our next stop is their house. These photos of Elephant Trails would not be complete without a view of our elephant’s indoor living areas.
The largest stall is filled with natural substrate, offering our elephants ample 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
