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Happy National Animal Shelter Appreciation Week! Since 1996, the Humane Society of the United States has promoted this week-long event as a way to not only acknowledge the impactful work of animal ...
Area Bon Secour National Wildlife Refuge [5] Baldwin County: AL 1980 6,816 acres (27.58 km 2) Cahaba River National Wildlife Refuge: Bibb County: AL September 25, 2002 2,997 acres (12.13 km 2) [6] Choctaw National Wildlife Refuge: Choctaw County: AL 1964 4,218 acres (17.07 km 2) Eufaula National Wildlife Refuge: Barbour County, Alabama Stewart ...
White-tailed deer (national animal) Odocoileus virginianus [18] West Indian manatee (national aquatic animal) Trichechus manatus [18] Two-toed sloth (national animal) Choloepus hoffmanni [19] Three-toed sloth (national animal) Bradypus variegatus [19] Cuba: Cuban trogon (national bird) Priotelus temnurus [20] Denmark: Red squirrel (national ...
The first part of the $52 million project opened in September 2010, expanding the zoo's former elephant area with a 5,700-square-foot (530 m 2) barn, two new yards (one with a pool), and a quarter-mile (400 m) walkway through woods, [35] a total of 1.9 acres (0.77 ha) of outdoor space, bringing the total size of Elephant Trails to 2 acres (0.81 ...
The National Zoo is hosting a series of events called the “District of Panda” in honor of the bears’ debut. Getty Images The events will take place Jan. 25 to Feb. 9, which includes a Lunar ...
Newly-released video shows the Smithsonian's National Zoo's new pandas from China settling into their new home. On Friday, the zoo shared a video on Instagram of the pandas "having a ball" while ...
The National Zoo’s three giant pandas left Washington, D.C., early Wednesday and took off from Dulles on the specially-equipped FedEx Panda Express aircraft destined for Chengdu, China, their ...
Theodore Roosevelt Jr. (left), Charles Suydam Cutting, and Kermit Roosevelt (right) with U.S. Consul Culver B. Chamberlain in Kunming, Yunnan (1929) The William V. Kelley-Roosevelt Asiatic Expedition was a zoological expedition to Southeast Asia in 1928–1929 sponsored by the Field Museum of Natural History and organized by Kermit Roosevelt and his brother Theodore Roosevelt Jr.