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• Drugged spiders’ web spinning may hold keys to understanding animal behavior

  11 January 2010

  

   

• Strawberry dart frogs bred at National Zoo for first time in Zoo’s history

  6 January 2010

  

   

• Dennis Kelly Named Director of the Smithsonian’s National Zoo

  11 December 2009

  

   

• Camera traps & radio collars reveal hoarding strategies of the South American agouti

  2 December 2009

  

   

• In face of crisis, National Zoo to start captive population of Virginia big-eared bats

  26 October 2009

  

   

• Smithsonian receives giant squid caught in the Gulf of Mexico

  24 September 2009

  

   

• New species of giant rat discovered in crater of volcano in Papua New Guinea

  9 September 2009

  

   

• Bottom-dwelling creatures in the Chesapeake Bay need more oxygen, study finds.

  28 August 2009

  

   

• Golden years at the Zoo: Veterinarians work to help animals live longer, stay healthy

  27 August 2009

  

   

• Rising acidification of estuary waters spells trouble for Chesapeake Bay oysters

  12 August 2009

  

   

• Smithsonian Scientist Discovers Two New Bat Species Hiding in Museum Collections for More Than 150 Years

  29 July 2009

  

   

• DNA evidence is rearranging the branches of the avian family tree

  23 July 2009

  

   

• Baby Boom of Endangered Species at Smithsonian’s National Zoo’s Conservation and Research Center

  15 July 2009

  

   

• Appalachian Trail survey aims hidden cameras at large predators

  20 May 2009