Dein Suchergebnis zum Thema: Guinea

Behold a brunch between a sloth and a golden lion tamarin, catch a close-up of newborn black-footed ferret kits and get a glimpse of giant pandas gorging themselves on bamboo shoots. All of these events (and more) made for a memorable May at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute.
Video Guinea Pig | Amazonia Training time with our guinea pigs!

Lilly Parker is a graduate fellow at the Center for Conservation Genomivs. Her research interests include many aspects of evolutionary biology, including population and landscape genomics and phylogenomics, as well as methodology for sequencing DNA from suboptimal materials, including non-invasive, ancient and environmental samples. She is also passionate about science outreach and education, in particular increasing representation of underrepresented minorities and women in STEM fields. Parker’s projects include:
understand how the complex geological and geographic history of Wallacea and New Guinea

Keepers can learn a lot about an animal’s needs just by monitoring its weight. But how do you weigh a wiggly ferret or get a full-grown elephant onto a scale? Find out in this update from primate keeper Erin Stromberg.
Image: In Amazonia, guinea pigs step into a plastic bin where they are rewarded

With ruddy coats and tufted ears, caracals are incredibly striking animals. They are also the heaviest of the small African cats. These agile hunters range along the African continent, up into the Arabian Peninsula through northwest India. 
supremely acrobatic and can leap agilely into the air to bring down prey, such as guinea

Crocodile monitors are large, arboreal lizards from southeast Asia. They have black-green bodies with patters of bright yellow spots and stripes and can weigh up to 44 pounds.
Populations are very fragmented but range from lowland New Guinea to Papua and West

The Smithsonian National Zoo’s new agouti needs a name and we need your help!  
Native to South America and similar in appearance to a Guinea pig—but larger and

The small, critically endangered Philippine crocodile was once prevalent throughout the Philippines but now lives only on a few islands.
Philippine crocodiles were considered a subspecies of the New Guinea crocodile (Crocodylus

What’s that rustle in the trees behind Reptile Discovery Center? Look up, or you may miss the Zoo’s stealthy male crocodile monitor hiding among the branches. Get the scoop on this cool cold-blooded giant.
donate to organizations that are helping to save rainforest habitat in Papua New Guinea

The Reptile Discovery Center team is warming up to a new monitor lizard this winter. The young Komodo dragon, named Onyx, moved into his new habitat Dec. 10.
Image: Murphy eats frozen-thawed mice, rabbits, guinea pigs, chicken, beef,

Get the extended ‘tail’ of what goes into caring for the Zoo’s three bobcats, straight from animal keeper Charlie Shaw!
and tendons to chew on—twice a week, and a whole prey item (such as frozen-thawed guinea