It has been a fairly mild winter at the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute in Front Royal, Virginia, with the exception of a pretty big snowfall Jan. 7. It was the first snow day for SCBI's newest Persian onager foals, but there are no snow days for the animal keepers who care for these ungulates.
How do you get an orangutan to sit still for an electrocardiogram? All it takes is a little patience and a lot of ingenuity! The Smithsonian’s National Zoo’s positive reinforcement training program enables primates to voluntarily participate in their own medical care without the need for anesthesia.
Saving species is what we strive to do every day at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute. As the year winds down, we’re reflecting on some of our biggest conservation success stories of 2019.
Meet Karl. He’s an Abyssinian ground hornbill, a bird native to the grasslands of north-central Africa and listed as vulnerable by the International Union for Conservation of Nature.
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