Wildlife / Video
After rescuing the Kemp’s ridleys from Cape Cod beaches in late fall, volunteers bring the turtles back to health and reintroduce to them to their saltwater homes in the warmer …
Researchers at a conservation center in Thailand tested many variables to study an elephant’s gait and how they accelerate when facing danger
Gas Drilling Supports Conservation
To offset the environmental impact of their drilling in Wyoming’s gas fields, energy companies are funding mitigation projects like conservation easements to protect habitat needed by wildlife
Saving Amphibians From Deadly Fungus
Building captive colonies for eventual re-introduction to the wild, scientists from Atlanta rescue endangered frogs and other amphibians threatened with extinction by a fatal fungus spreading through South American forests
Beetles Destroy Pines in the Rockies
At high elevations in the northern Rockies, mountain pine beetles are killing countless whitebark pine trees, a major source of food for wildlife including grizzly bears
The Cowboys of R.A. Brown Ranch
Donnell Brown and his fellow cowboys combine modern science with their decades of experience with cattle ranching to create the perfect specimen of beef
Silky Sifakas: The Angels of the Forest
For the first time ever, filmmakers have caught these elusive white lemurs of Madagascar on tape
Mustangs: Spirits of the Wild West
Photographer Melissa Farlow traveled across the American West capturing the majestic beauty of wild mustangs before they become a relic of the past Music by David Guy Baker
For the first time ever, researchers observed a cricket as a pollinator for a flower
Farewell Panda, Tai Shan Leaves for China
Read more at http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/aroundthemall/2009/12/tai-shan-will-return-to-china/ Visitors to the National Zoo have enjoyed watching their baby panda grow up over the last four years.
Researchers are able to track Venus flytrap plants that were stolen from protected areas
Scientists filmed octopuses near Indonesia using coconut shells as a tool, a first for invertebrates
Smithsonian staff writer Abigail Tucker came across imperiled zebras, dusty savannahs and perilous roads while researching the Tanzanian lions. Read more at http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/The-Truth-About-Lions.html
Endangered chimpanzees and gorillas in Africa face a new threat as investigators uncover what appears to be an undercover ape smuggling operation
Baby Talk From a Rhesus Macaque
Watch how a mother rhesus makes funny faces to her infant child to grab its attention
Watch breathtaking underwater footage off the Panama coast, where coral reefs reproduce in a flurry of carefully-timed action. Read more at http://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/A-Coral-Reefs-Mass-Spawning.html
How do hens react when they see the movement of a rooster’s waddle?
The Eastern Pacific Black Ghost Shark
The ghost shark’s tentaclum on its head is used to facilitate copulation with a female
The Shorebirds of Delaware Bay
Staff writer Abigail Tucker recounts the scene of a beach littered with horseshoe crabs and a sky filled with red knots. Read more at http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/Return-of-the-Sandpiper.html
Jellyfish are Stirring Up the Ocean
Researchers in Palau are studying how the movement of jellyfish through the open water helps with ocean mixing
Watch a slow-motion video of a tentacled snake lie in wait and scare its prey into escaping right into its mouth
Ambushed by a Prehistoric Spider
Using a CT scanner, scientists have created a 3-D model of Cryptomartus hindi
A wheat seed burrowing into the ground. Under dry, daytime conditions, the two “awns” that project from the seed bend away from each other. Under humid, nighttime conditions, they straighten. …
An infected ant’s bright red abdomen looks like a berry
Marine biologist Nancy Knowlton discusses a research trip to the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, in Panama, where she and her collaborators collected data on coral reef populations. Reef sustainability is …
Bonnie, the subject of a recently published paper, is the Smithsonian National Zoo’s famous whistling orangutan
A scuffle between silverback and male blackback gorilla reveals much about the social structures of the species
The Smithsonian National Zoos Snore & Roar program gives visitors a behind the scenes look (Video and Reporting by Megan Gambino and Ryan Reese). Read more at http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/aroundthemall/2008/09/sleep-over-party-at-the-zoo/
Nancy Knowlton talks about the dangers facing our oceans’ coral reefs
The Siberian jay screeches at predators when they are near, but uses a different call for each deadly intruder
Transitions: Photographs by Robert Creamer
Transitions: Photographs by Robert Creamer
Elephants Keeping Their Ears to the Ground
Male elephants use both audible sounds and seismic frequencies to locate a female elephant, according to recent research
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