Wildlife / Video
Bobbing to the Backstreet Boys
Snowball the cockatoo bobs his head and lifts his leg to the beats of the Backstreet Boys’ “Everbody”
Hear audio of mouse lemurs and pied babblers (Note: Lemur calls have been slowed down to one-tenth their speed so that scientists can analyze their differences.)
Watch Masai Mara hyenas in their natural habitat
A blue-throated side-blotched lizard defending his territory against an orange-throated side-blotched lizard
The researchers place a white “X” on one side of Happy’s head. When Happy sees the “X” in the mirror, she repeatedly touches the mark with her trunk
A dying caterpillar’s unusual reaction to a predatory bug.
On her third day of mirror exposure, Happy engages in repetitive trunk raises while backing in and out of the mirror location. This behavior appears to be a form of …
Elephants Maxine and Patty show investigative behavior on the first day of mirror exposure. Maxine climbs the wall to search behind the novel apparatus
The shy and timid Tasmanian devil gained its reputation for fierceness in part from its ferocious-looking yawn when cornered or frightened
The bizarre-looking Australian native takes a swim. (Still Image: JohnCarnemolla/iStock)
After molting (note the discarded shell in the background), a black-backed land crab struggles to move its flimsy new exoskeleton
Caretakers feed the new baby clouded leopards at the Zoo’s research facility in Virginia
In the remote Pacific, the Phoenix Islands provide an unspoiled center for marine science
The Colorful Lionfish Under the Sea
Two lionfish in Papua New Guinea swim gracefully
Ranchers and wildlife advocates are at odds over how to handle the gray wolf’s return to the Rockies
Fifty years ago, the Amazon comprised 14 percent of the Earth’s surface. Now, it covers just 6 percent.
Using new technologies, Smithsonian entomologists are using detailed photo of ant faces to understand the differences among the 12,000 species
Discovering Titanoboa, the World’s Largest Snake
Fossils found in Colombia indicate that a giant snake may have roamed the earth 60 million years ago
Biologist and videographer Mark Moffett’s footage of ants gets up close and personal with the leaf-cutter species of the insect
The Endangered Gorillas of the Congo
In the Virunga National Forest, the mountain gorilla population sits in the middle of a war zone in the Democratic Republic of the Congo as forest rangers track and keep …
A chick in the process of hatching as the female adult looks on
The biological urge is too strong to resist for penguin chicks as they fledge and dive into the water for the first time.
As chicks mature, they strengthen their breast muscles by flapping their wings vigorously
Fallow deer are the first species outside of primates to be able to make auditory discernment of social dominance
An adult penguin, recently back from a foraging trip, responds to the cheeping of its two-week-old chick and feeds it
In this trailer, experts discuss the importance of sharks to the health of coral reefs. Marine ecologist Enric Sala of Scripps Institution of Oceanography talks about the role of sharks …
Venture into Virunga National Park with Smithsonian writer Paul Raffaele as he examines the threats facing mountain gorillas in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Take a virtual tour of the Encyclopedia of Life Web site
Paul Raffaele explores gorilla tourism, raising gorillas in captivity and the future of the Congo mountain gorillas
Learn about this often misunderstood creature
A snake attacks a rare counter-clockwise snail
A crow named Icarus uses a short tool to extract a long tool, which he then uses to fish out a piece of meat.
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