In March, we celebrated two pygmy slow loris births! Now, the bright-eyed babies are getting braver and exploring their exhibit.
The whole family group sleeps together in one big huddle in their tunnel bed, so
Eastern indigo snakes are one of the largest North American snakes, reaching lengths of 5-7 feet. They are nonvenomous and found across the southeastern United States.
Instead, they are pressed against stationary structures like burrow or tunnel walls
Happy national panda day! Here at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo’s Asia Trail exhibit, we are celebrating with giant pandas Mei Xiang and Tian Tian, as well as our red panda pair, Asa and Jackie.
They have a blast running back and forth through the tunnel, and the extra steps
Scurry into the Small Mammal House and get up close with animals like sand cats, golden lion tamarins and naked mole-rats.
desert landscapes, golden lion tamarins jump from tree to tree and naked mole-rats tunnel
diggers, excavating prairie dog towns, which are U-shaped with chambers connected by tunnels
One of their important roles is turning the soil; they bring the tunnel soil up to
Try not to get ’swamped‘ with these bite-sized facts about American alligators and their crocodilian cousins.
In other areas, alligators dig tunnel-like hollows in the mud, which partially fill
Smithsonian ecologists worked with American Prairie Reserve staff to fit bison with GPS ear tags. Their movement study will help researchers understand how bison move and use the landscape at the Reserve in Montana.
reached the end of the chute, they would search for the light at the end of the tunnel
Kiwi are flightless, nocturnal birds native only to New Zealand. They have the second largest egg per body weight of any bird.
A typical underground burrow has one entrance, a tunnel 0.7 to 6.5 feet (0.2 to 2
The critically endangered Chinese alligator is one of the few alligators outside of the Americas. It is native to slow-moving, freshwater areas of the lower Yangtze River in China where it eats snails, crustaceans, insects, fish, young waterfowl and rodents.
Sleep Habits This species digs extensive earthen tunnels with multiple chambers,
There seems to be a favorite in the naked mole-rat colony.
Naked mole-rats live in tunnels, so if a queen were to get wider while pregnant she
