Yahoo1 个月
Here’s how the Smithsonian Zoo grows bamboo for its pandas
Here at the 3,200-acre Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute in Front Royal, Va., is where more than 13,000 stalks of bamboo, are harvested by the zoo each year. Subscribe to The Post Most ...
The Washington Post1 年
How the National Zoo weighs its animals, from elephants to red pandas
17 at 6:30 a.m. At the Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute ... and its conservation and research center in Front Royal, Va., about a 1.5-hour drive from the city.
The Washington Post27 天
Cloned ferret gives birth in Va., making history, U.S. officials say
The two ferrets were born in June to a cloned mother at the Smithsonian National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute in Front Royal, Virginia. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service called it an ...
Smithsonian Magazine2 个月
Inside the Zoo: A Rare and Life-Preserving Cheetah Surgery
In fact, Freya had recently been featured along with her four siblings on the Zoo’s Cheetah ... at the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute in Front Royal, Va. Freya, pictured here at ...
WRIC24 天
Cloned ferret gives birth to 2 healthy kits at Smithsonian National Zoo’s Virginia campus
WARREN COUNTY, Va. (WRIC ... Antonia, a cloned black-footed ferret (Photo: Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute’s Front Royal, Virginia, campus) Antonia’s ...