The Smithsonian’s National Zoo is proud to announce the birth of a female dama gazelle calf Sunday, Nov. 2, between 6:45 a.m. and 8 a.m., to 2-year-old female Adara and an unnamed 1-year-old male. The calf weighed 4.6 kilograms (10 pounds) at birth. A total of four dama gazelles reside at the Zoo ...
Suricata suricatta After emerging from their cool underground burrows, meerkats start each day with a sunbath. Description About 12 inches long, meerkats have a tan or gray coat, with a pale underside. Their eyes are ringed with black, and their tails have a black tip. Their slender body is typica...
Order: Carnivora Family: Felidae Genus and Species: Acinonyx jubatus The world's fastest land mammal is vulnerable to extinction throughout its range. Physical Description: Built more like greyhounds than typical cats, cheetahs are adapted for brief but intense bursts of speed. They have wiry bod...
Class: Mammalia Order: Carnivora Family: Felidae Species: Panthera leo The world's most social felines, lions usually get by with a little help from their pride mates. Physical Description: Lions have strong, compact bodies and powerful forelegs, teeth, and jaws for pulling down and killing prey....
Description: Andean condors are one of the largest flying birds in the world, weighing 20 to 26 pounds (nine to 12 kg). They have very broad wings with a span of more than nine feet (three meters). In spite of their weight, the great wing surface allows them to soar on rising air currents almost ind...
Callithrix pygmaea Distribution and Habitat These marmosets are found in the Upper Amazon basin east of the Andes in Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Northern Bolivia and Brazil. They have a patchy distribution in mature and secondary lowland rain forest, especially seasonally flooded forests, river margin...
Vibrant but toxic, poison arrow frogs range from less than an inch to two and a half inches in body length. There are more than 100 species of poison dart frogs, varying in color and pattern. The black and green species has black spots, the strawberry or blue jeans frog is all red with blue legs, th...
The Oklahoma City Zoo is a showcase of diversity, featuring plenty of activities, exhibits, and animals to fill anyone's thirst for the animal kingdom. Complete with rides and amusements, such as the guided tour aboard the Safari Tram or the Centenial Choo-Choo where you can take a load off...
For a month after birth, Southern right whale mothers and their calves rest and nurse. Then, like the pair shown here off Argentina, they start to swim faster and farther as they prepare for a long...
December 8, 2008 - Newswise — Scientists have discovered that management efforts intended to assist migrations of salmon and steelhead trout can have unintended consequences for fish populations. Juveniles...
This photograph shows the smaller of the two icebergs (designatedIceberg W-86) studied by Ken Smith and his coauthors in the Weddell Sea. Their preliminary study showed that both large and small icebergs...
Over the last five years, large, predatory Humboldt squid have moved north from equatorial waters and invaded the sea off Central California, where they may be decimating populations of Pacific hake, an...
New Lenfest Analysis Reveals High Risk for Depletion, Need for Fishing Limits WASHINGTON – A group of shark experts today recommended a ban on catching eight species of Atlantic, open ocean (“pelagic”)...
Northern Madtom (Noturus stigmosus), a venomous catfishspecies, collected from the Huron River near Ann Arbor, Michigan. Newswise — Name all the venomous animals you can think of...
female orangutan named Beki eats bananas at Tanjung Puting National Park on Borneo island (File photo) In the remote jungles of Borneo, near Indonesia's border with Malaysia, scientists have discovered...
Zoo keeper Neil Loomes of TarongaZoo shows off 10-month-old wombat Charlotte in Sydney, Australia (File) Wombat droppings are helping an industrial town in the Australian state of Tasmania to fight...
February 13 2009 - Newswise — Imagine you live in the suburbs of Chicago and you must commute hundreds of miles to a job in Iowa just to put food on the table. Magellanic penguins living on the Atlantic...
Julie Larsen Maher (c) Wildlife Conservation Society Americans think that the bison is an important national symbol, but they are unaware that the animal is still threatened ecologically. November...
Ozzie, a 48-year-old male western lowland gorilla at Zoo Atlanta, was the first gorilla to voluntarily have his blood pressure measured with the Gorilla Tough Cuff designed by Georgia Tech...
Three-year-old giant panda Tai Shan poses on a fallen tree in his exhibit at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo Fujifilm Giant Panda Habitat on November 7, 2008. Fall is a great time to see the pandas....
Give the gift of conservation and make the season bright for your friends and family with trendy, eco-friendly gifts. From an Adopt a Species package to green gifts like paper made from panda poop and...
Jul 17, 2008 DVM NEWSMAGAZINE Columbus, Ohio - A new study conducted by The Ohio State University College of Veterinary Medicine suggests that pigs raised without antibiotics were more susceptible to parasitic...
AS-1154, September 1998 Dr. Charlie Stoltenow, Extension Veterinarian Dr. Greg Lardy, Extension Beef Specialist Bovine respiratory disease (BRD) is a respiratory disease complex that accounts for a...
by John Burson As with all animal husbandry the best philosophy to adopt is “prevention is better than cure”. Reference Book on Poultry A good reference book will certainly pay dividends, giving...
Recipes for common horse care first-aid solutions from Horse & Rider magazine. By the Editors of Horse & Rider magazine Make sure your first-aid kit includes ingredients you'll need for poultices and...
How to Wrap a Bowed Tendon Your horse has a bowed tendon in his foreleg. Here's a wrap to help arrest the swelling and protect the tendon while you wait for the vet. By Karen Hayes, DVM, MS A bowed tendon...
BOSTON - Following reports of pet owners infecting their cat with the H1N1 virus, leading veterinary experts at Angell Animal Medical Center in Boston are advising pet owners of the precautions to take...
By: Jessica Harrison The biggest challenge in Cockatiel care is health because it's just not a single concern. There are two major difficulties involved in avian sickness. The first is recognizing...
Eleanor Scheidemann I was asked to give a presentation to a graduate physiology class on the effect of dogs in the home at different human developmental stages. While researching for this subject...
By: Sara Murphy What is Heart worm disease disease is a heavy and potentially fatal condition due to parasitic worms living in the arteries of the lungs and sometimes in the right side of the heart...
Daniel Waser The sit command is one of the more standard and basic commands that you can teach your dog and aside from impressing friends and family, the added benefit of teaching your dog to sit...
In the pleasing quietness of his house—a place where Pakistani prayer rugs lie in maroon rectangles on top of clean, white, wall-to-wall Berber carpet—Saleem Ali tends his treasure. There is the soft...
December 11, 2008 - WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Department of the Interior and the Department of Commerce today sent joint final regulations to the Federal Register to clarify the consultation process under...
Partnership between National Zoo and Lee Kum Kee Funds Giant Panda Research and Panda Sweepstakes Six months after a magnitude-8.0 earthquake devastated central China’s Sichuan Province—home to...
Garter snake November 24, 2008 - The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced today that adding the northern Mexican gartersnake, a subspecies found in the southwestern United States and in Mexico,...
28 November 2008 – The critically endangered cheetah, the world’s fastest land animal, is set to obtain added international protection next week at a United Nations-backed conference seeking to...
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