Zoology
Penguin Dispatch 2: The Scientists of Punta Tombo
For over 25 years, researcher Dee Boersma has been coming with students in tow to Punta Tombo to study the penguins
June 04, 2009 |
By Eric Wagner
Penguin Dispatch 3: Penguin Wrangling
Handling and tagging a penguin can be no easy task, leaving oneself open to a vicious and potentially dangerous beak attack
June 04, 2009 |
By Eric Wagner
Penguin Dispatch 4: How to Study a Penguin Egg
Females guard their eggs closely, so scientists must tread carefully when temporarily extracting the eggs for research
June 04, 2009 |
By Eric Wagner
Penguin Dispatch 5: Picking the Cutest Newborn Chick
By late-November, many eggs are hatching and cute, tennis-ball sized grey chicks emerge, begging for food from their parents
June 04, 2009 |
By Eric Wagner
Penguin Dispatch 6: The First Trip into the Ocean
Only two months into their lives, the chicks, with their now stronger flippers, take their first dive from the water’s edge
June 04, 2009 |
By Eric Wagner
Penguin Dispatch 7: Turbo, the Penguin Who Loved Humans
One Magellanic penguin rejected his own species and instead of fearing the scientists, he befriended and lived with them
June 04, 2009 |
By Eric Wagner
Feeding the Animals at the National Zoo
After hiring the first animal nutritionist 30 years ago, the National Zoo prepares specific, well-balanced meals for each animal
April 08, 2009 |
By Joseph Caputo
Hatching a New Idea
Electronic eggs hatch new insights into breeding exotic birds at the National Zoo
October 2007 |
By Jess Blumberg
Barbaro's Legacy
The effort to save the fallen champion shows how far equine medicine has come in recent years. And how far it still has to go
April 2007 |
By Steve Twomey
Mirror Image
The first evidence that elephants can recognize themselves
December 2006 |
By Eric Jaffe
Mirror Image
The first evidence that elephants can recognize themselves
November 07, 2006 |
By Eric Jaffe
35 Who Made a Difference: Clyde Roper
He's spent his life chasing a sea monster that's never been taken alive
November 01, 2005 |
By Richard Ellis
To Catch A Thief
When biologists study food theft among endangered roseate terns, they find that crime most definitely pays
December 2003 |
By Adele Conover
Ouch!
A new finding that fish feel pain has set off a tortured debate about the ethics of angling.
November 2003 |
By Michael Parfit
Rethinking Primate Aggression
Researcher Frans de Waal shows that apes (and humans) get along better than we thought
August 2003 |
By Richard Conniff
Great Expectations
Elephant researchers believe they can boost captive-animal reproduction rates and reverse a potential population crash in zoos.
June 2003 |
By Kara Platoni
Mystery Bumps
Scientists knew that alligators' jaws are covered in bumps but it took biologist Daphne Soares to figure out why
May 2003 |
By David Berreby
Bear Trouble
Only hundreds of miles from the North Pole, industrial chemicals threaten the Arctic's greatest predator
April 2003 |
By Marla Cone
Bringing Up Baby
Scientists zero in on the caring and cunning ways of a seldom-seen waterbird
April 2003 |
By Valerie Jablow
Sea Searchers
Scientists launch a $1 billion effort to track marine life worldwide
January 2003 |
By Jeff Wheelwright
