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Critically endangered infant gorilla has zookeepers ‘cautiously optimistic.’ Here’s why
Native to the Congo Basin, Western lowland gorillas are the smallest of the subspecies of great apes, according to the Smithsonian National Zoo. They’re considered critically endangered due to ...
Great apes visually track subject-object relationships like humans do, research reveals
Great apes track events with their eyes in the same way that humans do, according to a study published November 26 in the ...
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Great apes visually track subject-object relationships like humans do
Great apes track events with their eyes in the same way that humans do, according to a study published November 26th in the ...
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Aged, arthritic National Zoo elephant is euthanized
An Asian elephant that had lived at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo for 10 years and suffered from osteoarthritis was euthanized there Friday after her condition “had irreversibly declined ...