When there's a problem with a municipal water syst...  ...on, DC, had a boil water advisory last month, the National Zoo had a problem. Some of their rare and exotic anim...  ...me to get creative.The Amazonia exhibition at the Zoo replicates a rainforest habitat and staff quickly...  ...taff hustled behind the...

Shanthi is a 41-year-old Asian elephant at the National Zoo in Washington, DC. She suffers from arthritis. Th...  ...thi’s custom shoes, which were given to the zoo free of charge. She took a little while to get us...

What do you do when three of your friends have bir...  ...party. And that's exactly what Washington D.C.'s National Zoo did to celebrate the birthdays of three of their...

Two rare Sumatran tiger cubs were born at the National Zoo in Washington on August 5th. Since then, the male...  ...were placed one at a time into the moat, in which zookeepers were waiting to help in case of emergency. Both c...  ...DCist. -via Arbroath(Image credit: Smithsonian's Natio...

Zoo is temporarily closed," said the sign....  ...ar costume looking longingly at the Smithsonian's National Zoo in Washington, D.C., which was temporarily closed...  ...e of the US government shutdown. The gates to the zoo were locked and the kid was left outside looking......