WTOP’s Matt Kaufax talks with animal keeper Charlie Shaw, who cares for big cats at the National Zoo, about the vital ...

The Sumatran tiger paces eagerly waiting for raw beef chunks ... “You walk in and the tigers all chuff at you, or the lions roar. And you’re like, ‘Oh, my God, this is my job every day!’” ...

I am deeply saddened to learn that my friend and colleague of 32 years, Valmik Thapar has passed away. I met Valmik in 1993 ...

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Wild orangutans use multi-layered recursive vocal patterns that vary with danger, challenging the idea that only humans use ...

Nineteenth-century records classified Raffles’ banded langurs as a subspecies of banded langurs, Presbytis femoralis, along with two other primates: the East Sumatran banded langur and the ...

Another newcomer to the zoo is Kucing, a male Sumatran tiger. The zoo got him from San Diego Zoo’s Wild Animal Park in October, a month before his first birthday. Kucing has previously been on ...