One year ago, our Primate team celebrated the much anticipated birth of a western lowland gorilla: Zahra!
If Zahra could get her hands on a food item, she would
Follow a day in the life of the Smithsonian’s National Zoo’s giant panda keepers as they care for Tian Tian, Mei Xiang and Bei Bei.
on how messy the bears were overnight and how many hands
Critically endangered black-and-white ruffed lemurs are native only to Madagascar, where they live in trees and are most active during the day.
have the same black and white markings, but their hands
What animal can rotate its head 180 degrees, has ears that function like satellites and marks its territory (and members of its social group) with urine? Meet our southern lesser galago brothers, Mopani and Damara!
They will also wipe their hands on other galagoes in
It is hard to believe that an entire year has passed since the day that Moke, the Smithsonian’s National Zoo’s infant western lowland gorilla, was born. In the blink of an eye, he has grown from a fragile newborn to a rambunctious youngster.
Video The most unforgettable memory, hands down
Gorillas are the largest of the great apes, but the western lowland gorilla is the smallest of the subspecies. Native to the Congo Basin, the western lowland gorilla is a quiet, peaceful and nonaggressive animal threatened by disease and poaching.
weight on the third and fourth digits of their curled hands
Nearly one-third of all amphibian species globally are at risk of going extinct. While the global amphibian crisis is the result of habitat loss, climate change and pollution, the deadly amphibian chytrid fungus plays a large role in the frogs‘ disappearances.
hope for their species, rapidly vanishing at the hands
Sept. 24 is World Gorilla Day, and we are celebrating with an update on our 2-year-old, Moke, and his troop!
Showing his hands, arms, feet, legs, ears and back
Our lemurs celebrated their birthdays April 6 with a gorgeous cherry blossom-themed cake! Get the story behind the celebration from primate keeper Emily Bricker.
fruits and flowers, pollen sticks to their noses, hands
Norway rats, also called brown rats, are foragers that can survive on a wide range of food, which has helped them successfully spread across the world.
their whiskers much in the same way humans use their hands
