Meintest du tar?
Extinct in the wild for more than 35 years, scimitar-horned oryx are back in their native habitat thanks to international collaboration and the power of science.
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I traveled to the United Arab Emirates in early October to work on the second release of Scimitar-horned Oryx with our collaborators from the Environment Agency—Abu Dhabi (EAD).
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Spring’s arrival brought about some big changes in the life of our 9-month-old Hartmann’s mountain zebra colt, Yipes.
Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute ungulate keeper Tara
Three scimitar-horned oryx calves have now been born in the wild. Species reintroductions led by Environment Agency – Abu Dhabi and the Government of Chad began last year. SCBI ecologists collect behavioral data on the reintroduced oryx using satellite collars.
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Persian onagers are not just rare in the wild, they are actually rare in zoos as well.
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Young animals learn what it means to be an animal—what to eat, how to behave and more—from their parents. For Yipes, our 1-year-old male Hartmann’s mountain zebra, those lessons most recently came from his father, 7-year-old Rogan.
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As snow blanketed the Washington, D.C., region Jan. 31, 2021, the Smithsonian’s National Zoo’s animals woke up to a winter wonderland.
serene snow day with our red-crowned crane pair, Tara
On Feb. 2, our youngest zebra, Yipes, turned 7 months old. It is hard to believe that he is already a juvenile! Over the past few months, we have seen him become much more rambunctious and goofy like his father, Rogan.
Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute animal keeper Tara
Thirty years after the scimitar-horned oryx were driven to extinction, the desert antelope will return to the last-known place it existed: Chad’s Sahelian grasslands.
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