Results for "Smithsonian's National Zoo (Mobile app)"
- Finding Aid
SIA Acc. 14-095, Smithsonian Institution, Website Records, 2013
- Date: 2013
- Creator: Smithsonian Institution
- Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives
Here at the Smithsonian: Trips to the National Zoo
- Date: October 26, 2021
- Creator: Emily Niekrasz
- Description: Watch two recently-digitized clips featuring scenes at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo in 1982.
- SI History Bibliography
Smithsonian's New Zoo
- Date: 1990
- Creator: Page, Jake
- Creator: Page, Jake
- SI History Bibliography
Smithsonian's New Zoo
- Date: 1990
- Creator: Page, Jake
- Creator: Page, Jake
- Blog Post
Sybil Hamlet’s History of the National Zoo
- Date: May 17, 2018
- Creator: Kira M. Sobers
- Description: Did you know that the first beaver came to the National Zoological Park in 1894? Or that the first animals on the official zoo grounds were two Indian Elephants, Dunk and Gold Dust? Surely, you knew that the Dusit Zoo in Bangkok donated an albino Asiatic turtle to the National Zoo in 1966? You didn’t know that? Well, thanks to the work of Sybil Hamlet in 1985, you can now
- SI History Chronology
Cooper-Hewitt Museum Accessions Source Code for iPad App
- Date: 2013
- Webpage
Capital Mysteries #9: A Thief at the National Zoo
- Date: March 9, 2022
- Description: KC Corcoran and Marshall Li must solve mystery of who stole the tiger jewel from the National Zoo.
- Blog Post
A History of Celebrating the Insect Zoo
- Date: August 23, 2011
- Creator: Jennifer Wright
- Description: When you think of the National Museum of Natural History, what comes to mind are probably inanimate things—rocks and dinosaur bones, cultural objects, and stuffed animals. But did you know that the museum has a collection of live insects? Today is the 35th anniversary of the opening of the permanent installation of the Insect Zoo, though the Zoo actually began as a temporary
- Gallery
National Zoo
- Date: September 19, 2013
- Description: The National Zoological Park was conceived by William Temple Hornaday and established by an act of Congress in 1889. The Smithsonian’s collection of living animals was originally intended to aid taxidermists’ studies, but Smithsonian Secretaries Spencer F. Baird and Samuel P. Langley helped expand the small menagerie’s purpose. Today it houses over 2,000 animals of around 400
Saving Giant Pandas: Conservation at the National Zoo
- Date: August 23, 2016
- Creator: Kira M. Sobers
- Description: Today is Giant Panda cub Bao Bao’s third birthday, and yesterday her little brother, Bei Bei, turned one. This marks the first time in the forty-four years of panda conservation at the National Zoo that there have been two healthy cubs in residence at the zoo at the same time, but that’s not for lack of trying.
Archives Puzzles: National Zoo and Aquarium Month
- Date: June 7, 2021
- Creator: Emily Niekrasz
- Description: Have a little fun with images from our collections that have been designated as open access. Anyone can now download, transform, share, and reuse millions of images as part of Smithsonian Open Access.
- SI History Bibliography
Professor C. V. Riley in the Mobile Register
- Date: 1980
- Creator: Mallis, Arnold
- Creator: Mallis, Arnold