Conservation Projects
Smithsonian Pools 7.1 Million Shorebird Data Points
Scientists at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute have pooled 7.1 ...
North America
Fort Wayne Zoo Is Teaching an Orangutan to Be a Mother
When Tara the orangutan gave birth at the Fort Wayne Children’s Zoo in ...
Conservation Projects
Cloned Black-Footed Ferrets Produce Three Litters
A black-footed ferret cloned from tissue frozen more than thirty years ago has ...
North America
Oregon Coast Aquarium Tags Sharks That Stayed All Winter
Researchers expected broadnose sevengill sharks to spend their summers in northern waters and ...
Conservation Projects
Toledo Zoo Method Hatches Chicks of a Near-Extinct Dove
Three chicks of one of the rarest birds on earth have hatched in ...
Conservation Projects
Aquarium of the Bay Partners With Yale on Pollution
Aquarium of the Bay is starting a research collaboration with the Yale School ...
North America
Twelve Hundred Individual Meal Plans, Every Day
Disney’s Animal Kingdom keeps about 5,000 animals across some 300 species. Every day, ...
Conservation Projects
A $77,915 Grant and One Very Odd Beetle
The American burying beetle is federally threatened, endangered in Ohio, and has been ...
Conservation Projects
Six Institutions, Four Questions About Rhinos
Six institutions have formed the American Institute of Rhinoceros Science, a research consortium ...
Africa & Middle East
Elephants Hear to the Beat: UC Researchers Determine African Elephant Hearing with Help from Zoos
In a world where the African elephant population has declined by 72% in ...
