National Zoo

Creature Keepers

Conservation and research remain key elements in the National Zoo’s ever-expanding programs

September 1999

When One of the National Zoo’s Gorillas Goes In For Tests, It’s Not Just Standard Operating-Room Procedure

By discovering heart disease early, echocardiograms have improved life; now Washington cardiologists are using them to help great apes at the National Zoo

January 1997

New Ideas in the Air at the National Zoo

June 1996

The Object at Hand

How a snake, attended by alarums and excursions, made it from an Asian jungle to the National Zoo and so to its present berth in a Smithsonian museum

June 1995