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Inti is bold, Masi is chill and Sani is shy (unless there is food around). No, they aren’t the latest reality TV divas, but the newest residents at the Zoo. An all-female herd of guinea pigs has moved in to their new digs in Amazonia.
Learn what else makes these animals unique.
Let’s play a game…for science! With a tap of the touch-screen computer, orangutans at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo try their memories at matching pictures. These games help scientists study the apes’ metacognition.
rewarded with one of their favorite foods—grapes—but the treat is delivered somewhere else
This peculiar-looking canine uses its exceptional hearing to hunt for termites and beetles — here are some more fun facts about the species.
The remaining part of their diet is just about anything else they can find — fruits
By Stephen Schulze, Keeper at the National Zoo’s Small Mammal House
spend more time extricating the mesh from acacia thorns than we do on anything else
With just a few tips and tricks, anyone can find salamanders and celebrate nature in their local area.
That is more than anywhere else in the world!
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.
All lemur species are endemic to Madagascar; they exist nowhere else on Earth.
Two peanuts sit on a tray. One is beneath the curve of a tool; the other is beside a different tool, out of reach. Smithsonian’s National Zoo’s Allen’s swamp monkey Nub Armstrong is eyeing both. Will he pick the tool that brings the peanut toward him? To examine whether guenons understand how tools work, primate keeper Erin Stromberg and University of Michigan graduate student Missy Painter have teamed up to put these monkeys’ smarts to the test.
we understand what makes a tool useful—that it has a causal effect on something else
Things are hop-penning at Small Mammal House! On Jan. 24, a wallaby joey popped its head out of mom Victoria’s pouch. Get the scoop on the young joey from animal keeper Esther Wray.
Is there anything else readers should know about the new joey?
As August comes into full swing, get to know the golden lion tamarins from Kenton Kerns, assistant curator of Small Mammal House!
They always seem to love bugs, but often their favorite food is whatever someone else
The Guam rail (ko’ko’) is a flightless but fast-running bird with a narrow body adapted for running through thick marsh grass, weeds and underbrush. It was once considered extinct in the wild, but populations have been established through reintroductions on Rota and Cocos Island near Guam.
Native Habitat The Guam rail was endemic to Guam and previously found nowhere else
