Results for "National Zoo News (Serial)"
- Finding Aid
SIA Acc. 12-093, National Zoological Park (U.S.), National Zoo News, 1985-1993
- Date: 1985 1985-1993
- Creator: National Zoological Park
- Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives
- 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
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.
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 Chronology
New Asian Elephant for National Zoo
- Date: May 22, 2013
- SI History Chronology
National Zoo Opens New Exhibits
- Date: 1956
- 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
- 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
- Blog Post
“Do Pandas Affect Everyone This Way?”: Celebrating 50 Years of Giant Pandas at the National Zoo
- Date: April 14, 2022
- Creator: Emily Niekrasz
- Description: This year marks the 50th anniversary since the arrival of giant pandas Ling-Ling and Hsing-Hsing at the National Zoo. To celebrate, we’re highlighting some giant panda records at the Archives.
Grounds for New Zoo
- Date: c. 1890
- Creator: Unknown
- Creator: Unknown
Grounds for New Zoo
- Date: c. 1890
- Creator: Unknown
- Creator: Unknown
