The eastern box turtle, a subspecies of the common box turtle, has a dark brown, hinged shell with yellow-orange markings. When threatened, it can pull its head, tail and limbs inside and shut its shell for protection.
wide variety of plants, mushrooms, fruits, insects, fish
Smithsonian researchers develop strategies to save species, including Asian elephants, giant pandas, scimitar-horned oryx, Przewalski’s horses, swift foxes and bison.
scientists, in collaboration with the Fort Belknap Fish
The Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding, or Chengdu Panda Base, is a Chinese institution renowned for advances made in the propagation of giant pandas — one of the world’s most charismatic and endangered species.
scientists, in collaboration with the Fort Belknap Fish
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.
scientists, in collaboration with the Fort Belknap Fish
The Global Health Program offers training programs that cover issues ranging from wildlife health and lab diagnostics to outbreak investigations.
scientists, in collaboration with the Fort Belknap Fish
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.
scientists, in collaboration with the Fort Belknap Fish
The comprehensive study of an organism’s genome can lead to new discoveries and a better understanding of Earth’s biodiversity.
scientists, in collaboration with the Fort Belknap Fish
Smithsonian scientists and partners believe genetic diversity could hold the key to saving amphibians from Ranavirus, a pathogen that is particularly devastating to frogs and toads in the U.S.
The virus is often fatal and can also infect fish,
Global Health Program researchers study areas where humans and animals interact to help detect and prevent the spread of zoonotic pathogens, which cause about 75 percent of infectious diseases that affect humans.
scientists, in collaboration with the Fort Belknap Fish
As the John and Adrienne Mars director of the Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute, Brandie Smith oversees the 163-acre Zoo facility in Washington, D.C.’s Rock Creek Park and the 3,200-acre Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute campus in Front Royal, Virginia. She is responsible for the operations of the public Zoo in Washington, D.C., which has approximately 1.8 million visitors a year, and manages the Zoo’s groundbreaking conservation biology research team that works in more than 30 countries.
Fish and Wildlife Service in 2001, to engage zoos and
