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Three-month-old cheetah cub at the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute plays with an enrichment toy.

Bringing the Zoo to You: July 2020

July 31, 2020

Grab a delicious snack with prehensile-tailed porcupine Quilliam, have a ball watching our cheetah cubs play and behold beaver Aspen as he fells a tree. July brought about many exciting moments, not the least of which was the reopening of the Smithsonian’s National Zoo! Before you plan your visit...

A juvenile bison walks across green grass

Smithsonian’s National Zoo Welcomes Two New Bison

July 16, 2020

The Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute has welcomed “Lucy” and “Gally,” two juvenile female American bison.

Bison Dies at Smithsonian's National Zoo

March 03, 2020

The Smithsonian’s National Zoo humanely euthanized Zora, a 7-year-old bison, earlier today.

A herd of bison running through grasslands in Montana. One of the bison is wearing a GPS tracking collar around its neck.

Tracking Bison Across the Grasslands of Montana

May 08, 2019

Landscape ecologist Hila Shamon spent the first two weeks of April working with American Prairie Reserve to place GPS collars on plains bison.

large hoofed animal with short curved horns and brown fur

It's Bison, Not Buffalo. And Other American Bison Facts

August 23, 2018

The iconic song of the American West, “Home on the Range,” got a key detail wrong — buffalo never roamed the region! But bison still do. Isn’t it time you learned why?