Cats
The Fight to Save the Tiger
The great cat is disappearing throughout its range because of habitat loss and illegal hunting, but an innovative scientist in India may have discovered a way to avert extinction
April 2012 |
By Phil McKenna
A Debate Over The Best Way to Protect the Tiger
Experts battle each other over a $350 million plan to keep the tiger from becoming extinct
April 2012 |
By Phil McKenna
The Secret Lives of Animals Caught on Camera
Photographs shot by camera traps set around the world are capturing wildlife behavior never before seen by humans
March 24, 2011 |
By Megan Gambino
National Zoo Celebrates Birth of Rare Clouded Leopards
Notoriously difficult to breed, two new clouded leopards are born at the National Zoo’s research facility
March 25, 2009 |
By Cristina Santiestevan
Cats as Pets and Predators
Jake Page explores the evolution and enigmatic ways of the most popular pet in America -- the house cat
January 30, 2009 |
By Abigail Tucker
Rare Breed
Can Laurie Marker help the world's fastest mammal outrun its fate?
March 2008 |
By Guy Gugliotta
Saving the Cheetah
National Zoo scientist Adrienne Crosier discusses how scientists are using artificial
insemination to rescue the species
March 2008 |
By Helen Starkweather
On the Prowl
Rare jaguar sightings have sparked a debate about how to ensure the cats' survival in the American West
November 2007 |
By Jeremy Kahn
A Brief History of House Cats
It may be that "nobody owns a cat," but scientists now say the popular pet has lived with people for 12,000 years
July 01, 2007 |
By David Zax
Clouded comeback?
Smithsonian zoologists are attempting to breed the rare clouded leopard
May 2007 |
By David Zax
It All Falls Down
A plummeting cougar population alters the ecosystem at Zion National Park
December 01, 2006 |
By Eric Jaffe
Cougars on the Move
Mountain lions are thought to be multiplying in the West and heading east. Can we learn to live with these beautiful, elusive creatures?
September 2006 |
By Steve Kemper
Building An Arc
Despite poachers, insurgents and political upheaval, India and Nepal's bold approach to saving wildlife in the Terai Arc just may succeed.
July 2006 |
By John Seidensticker and Susan Lumpkin
Return of the Jaguar?
Novel camera traps have documented the elusive cat in Arizona, suggesting it may not be gone from the United States after all
December 2005 |
By Will Rizzo
Not a Lot of Ocelots
Once thought to have vanished from North America victims of hunting and habitat loss the cats maintain a slender pawhold in the thickets of South Texas
June 2002 |
By Adele Conover
Trailing the Big Cats
For a walk on the wild side, follow the tracks of a tiger or look at a lion close up at the National Zoo
January 1999 |
By Michael Kernan
The Object at Hand
The story behind the Smithsonian's display tiger leads back into tiger history, man-eating and otherwise, and sadly, back to the fact that tigers are now endangered
November 1995 |
By Adele Conover
