Dein Suchergebnis zum Thema: Hand

As their native habitat continues to shrink, wild cheetahs are facing a drought of genetic diversity. This is in direct contrast with the population of cheetahs in zoos, which is as genetically diverse as it was 30 years ago because of cooperative and strategically managed breeding programs.
Females, on the other hand, mature between 24-30 months of age.

Training tigers to show their teeth and preening prickly porcupines is all in a day’s work for keeper Dell Guglielmo!
We will hand feed each porcupine his or her leaf-eater biscuits; it is a good opportunity

Get up close to the animals of the Amazon, including turtles, sting rays, arapaima and roseate spoonbills. Or, see cutting-edge Zoo science at Amphibian Alert and the Coral Lab.
The Seal Rock Café (open seasonally) offers hand-dipped ice cream and other sweet

Long-billed curlew are shorebirds that spend their summers breeding in the grasslands of Montana. Smithsonian ecologists are equipping them with GPS trackers to learn more about their movements.
Image: With hand motions, they direct us left and right to make sure the net

In March and April, keepers at the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute in Front Royal, Virginia, celebrated the arrival of two male kiwi chicks! Get to know them in this update from the bird team.
Maori, on the other hand, is more relaxed in their presence.

Roads can be a dangerous challenge for terrestrial and arboreal wildlife. One scientist is trying to change that.
post-doctoral fellows and the conservation research they are supporting through first-hand

Take a look behind the scenes as animal care teams provide an endless bamboo buffet to the Zoo’s new giant pandas.
After chopping hundreds of pieces of bamboo by hand, the team will sort it, then

Giant pandas Tian Tian, Mei Xiang and Xiao Qi Ji are settling in nicely in their new home at the China Conservation and Research Center for the Giant Panda’s ShenShuPing Campus. 
He rubbed his head on the mesh near my hand before continuing to investigate his

Playing, foraging, training and snoozing—it’s all in a day in the life of the Smithsonian’s National Zoo’s western lowland gorilla troop! 
Using verbal cues and hand signals, we ask our apes to present their body parts.

There’s no better way to celebrate World Gorilla Day than with our adorable animal ambassador, Zahra! Keeper Lynne McMahan shares some of her favorite moments in this Q+A.  
Even when we try to hand her bits of food, Calaya swoops in and takes it first.