November | December 2008
Creature Comforts
Can animals offer medical help to humans? From bees to frogs, animals have properties with surprising healing potential.
A Monk`s Life
Never seen a Mediterranean monk seal? Most people haven`t. The seal is a reclusive and disappearing species, no thanks to human impacts on its habitat.
A Bit of a Dump
True Veterans
The National Zoo`s gray seals spent their early years as Navy seals—literally. Today you can still see evidence of their underwater skills.
Wild Life and Times
In The Soul of the Rhino, conservationist Hemanta Mishra writes of his personal experience in saving one-horned rhinos and Bengal tigers from extinction in Nepal.
Good Citizens
Collecting data can be as simple as spotting a butterfly. Citizen scientists offer valuable help to Zoo researchers by studying their local wildlife.
To see what ZooGoer, a benefit of FONZ membership, looks like in print, download pages from previous issues:
These can be viewed with Adobe Acrobat Reader,
which is available for free download on the 
Adobe
website.
