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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

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.

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!

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

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

In summer 2023, Bird House keepers celebrated the arrival of orchard oriole chicks—the first hatched in human care—and Baltimore oriole chicks. Curator Sara Hallager shares an update about the team’s success. 
They are black everywhere else with white bars on their wings.

National Bison Day is the first Saturday in November and the Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute has a big reason to celebrate these iconic animals! Wallow in the autumn leaves with the Zoo’s bison, Lucy and Gally, and animal keeper Regina Bakely, as she shares her stories and the institution’s history of caring for American bison.
I want everyone else to care, too.

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

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?