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Bao Li is one of two giant pandas now calling the National Zoo home. Photo Credit: Roshan Patel/Smithsonian's National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute Washington businesses and hotels are ...

TOKYO - An endangered rat that is also a natural monument of Japan will be on public display at Inokashira Park Zoo in Musashino, Tokyo, from March 18. The Amami spiny rat, or Amami togenezumi in ...

Male lions in captivity, for example, "rarely live past the age of 12," according to the National Zoo website. The median lifespan of a cougar is about 13 years for males and 16 for females ...

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Tending to their residents’ mental health is just as important. The Smithsonian’s National Zoo took a creative approach to this in 2017 when zookeepers gave animals musical instruments.