Wildlife / Video
Photographing the Elusive Jaguar
Deep in the jungles of Brazil, photographer Steve Winter explains how he managed to capture stunning images of one of the world’s top predators. Read more about jaguars at http://www.smithsonianmag.com/video/Photographing-the-Elusive-Jaguar.html
At the National Zoo, primates undergo routine checkups to ensure a healthy lifestyle.
Are Spelunkers Carrying the White-Nose Fungus?
Concern that cavers using contaminated equipment may be unwittingly transporting the syndrome responsible for killing thousands of bats from cave to cave
Author Juliet Eilperin reveals what she learned about the predators of the sea and how humans have little to fear of them
New Rules for Yellowstone Bison
Under relaxed federal rules, bison are now allowed more room to roam outside Yellowstone National Park
In 2005, members of the VISIONS 05 expedition crew captured the first high-definition video of a white deep-sea octopus
Related to rabbits and hares and adapted to high-elevation habitat, the American pika faces a bleak future as temperatures rise and snow cover disappears
A Smithsonian entomologist demonstrates how tarantulas feed by placing live crickets inches from their jaws.
The park rangers at Sequoia National Park let wildfires burn free, as they are necessary for new trees to take root in the unique northern California landscape
What Will Happen to Puerto Maldonado
A local fisherman talks about the uncertain future facing locals when the new bridge connecting Peru and Brazil is completed
In Bostwana’s Makgadikgadi Pans, researcher James Bradley studies how the zebras travel across the great expanse of land
No Need for a Plane, This Snake Can Fly
Watch as researchers study the paradise tree snake that is capable of launching itself as far as 330 feet
Saving the Coral Reef Ecosystem with Crochet
Margaret Wertheim talks about how math and climate change inspired her to start the Hyperbolic Crochet Coral Reef project. Read more at: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/how-to-crochet-a-coral-reef-69064479/
Swim with bottlenose dolphins in the Red Sea and learn about their amazing intelligence
While camouflaged on the ocean floor off the coast of Israel in the Red Sea, octopods use their arms to grab unsuspecting prey
During the rut, or mating season, the male elk’s distinctive call brings female elk and tourists alike to Estes Park, Colorado
Meet the Elephants of the National Zoo
Read more about elephants at http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/How-Male-Elephants-Bond.html Keepers and pachyderms alike are enjoying the new Asian elephant exhibit, Elephant Trails, at the National Zoo.
Bull elephant Kevin, crazed with testosterone, challenges Greg, the most powerful elephant in the group
Endangered Dolphins in New Zealand
Reduced to just a few thousand, Hector’s dolphins are being decimated by fisheries bycatch
Climate Change and the Colorado River
Serving 30 million people in seven states and Mexico, the drying Colorado River can still be saved by sustainable measures and collaboration
Discovering Secrets on the Seashore
Mineralogist Bob Hazen talks about what he loves about walking along the coast of the Chesapeake Bay, hunting for fossils and shark teeth hidden in the sand
New research shows that frogs who land on their bellies are among the most primitive of frog species
Primatologist Tetsuro Matsuzawa studies chimps in hopes of uncovering how they learn and communicate
Florida Everglades: Restoring the Wetlands
With an 80-acre scale model of the 1.6 million-acre Everglades wetland system, scientists study how to restore the flow of water that was interrupted years ago
Florida Everglades Dying of Thirst
With federal funding, scientists and engineers hope to restore the Everglades ecosystem by removing dikes and canals and building the world’s largest reservoir
Red Rock National Conservation Area
Just a few miles from the casinos, Red Rock Canyon offers a spectacular backdrop for outdoor recreation and a peaceful escape from the hustle of Las Vegas
In the American West, simple safeguards can help curb the invasion of exotic snails that are spreading through watersheds and causing damage
Federal authorities now recognize that the greater sage grouse deserves more legal protection as their undisturbed habitat disappears
Monster Snakes in the Florida Everglades
Hunters search for 30-foot exotic pythons that prey on endangered species in the Everglades National Park and surrounding wetlands
What makes human and orangutan brains different? Researchers at the National Zoo hope to find out by playing customized computer games with the savvy primates.
The common thresher attack stuns and immobilizes its prey with a rapid strike with its tail, then moves in for the kill. (Still Image: iStock/bearacreative)
With hundreds of new uranium mining claims filed within just a few miles of Grand Canyon National Park, a proposed new law would close the area to mining development and …
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