Meet the Animals

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small maroon songbird on perch

Tanagers
Scientific Name: Silver-beaked Tanager: Ramphocelus carbo Blue-grey Tanager: Thraupis episcopus
This animal is not currently on exhibit.
A dark gray-brown snake, called a Taylor's cantil, with white stripes on its head and light, triangular marks down its body

Taylor's cantil
Scientific Name: Agkistrodon taylori
Reptile Discovery Center
Front-side profile of a Tennessee warbler, a small songbird with yellow and gray plumage.

Tennessee warbler
Scientific Name: Leiothlypis peregrina
Bird House
A tentacled snake swimming in water with green plants in the background

Tentacled Snake
Scientific Name: Erpeton tentaculatum
Reptile Discovery Center
Amur tiger Nikita makes her debut at the Smithsonian's National Zoo's Great Cats exhibit on Feb. 26, 2019.

Tiger
Scientific Name: Panthera tigris ssp. sumatrae Panthera tigris ssp. altaica
Great Cats
A timber rattlesnake with pale gray scales, dark-brown bands around its body, a brown stripe down its back and a rattle at the tip of its tail

Timber rattlesnake
Scientific Name: Crotalus horridus
Reptile Discovery Center
A close-up photo of a timor python, its face resting on its curled up body.

Timor python
Scientific Name: Python timoriensis
Reptile Discovery Center
Two white-eared titi monkeys (small monkeys with thick fur, small ears and long tails) perch on a branch eating fruit held in their hands

Titi monkey
Scientific Name: Callicebus donacophilus
This animal is not currently on exhibit.
A gray-blue gecko with rust-orange spots holds onto a tan branch

Tokay gecko
Scientific Name: Gekko gecko
Reptile Discovery Center
A tomato frog in someone's hand

Tomato frog
Scientific Name: Dyscophus guineti
Reptile Discovery Center
A tomistoma, a crocodile-like reptile with a long, slender snout, surfaces in the water. Its teeth can be seen on its top and bottom jaw along its snout, with the longest protruding from the tip of the snout

Tomistoma
Scientific Name: Tomistoma schlegelii
Reptile Discovery Center
A pair of standard bronze turkeys use their bills to forage for food in the grass outside the Bird House.

Turkey
Scientific Name: Meleagris gallopavo
Bird House (outdoor viewing)