| Key | Imgs | Short Description |
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 2010_DC_FONZ_Cubs_101112 | 30 | DC -- FONZ Viewing -- Lions: Cub-dunking event |
| 2006_DC_FONZ_Viewing_061218 | 52 | DC -- FONZ Viewing -- Lions: New African lions
A lion's roar can be heard up to five miles away. With the arrival of the National Zoo's three new African lions, our excitement is probably just as audible!
Please join us in welcoming these lions at an exclusive continental breakfast and preview at the Great Cats exhibit on Monday, December 18, from... |
| 2003_DC_FONZ_Ceremony_031015 | 9 | DC -- FONZ Viewing -- Lions: New lions
The National Zoo received two new lions -- two sisters named Lusaka and Kisangali -- to accompany their lonely male lion. The new lions were transported from the Wildlife Waystation in California with the help of Lyondell Chemical Company. A Friends of the National Zoo (FONZ) reception was held before... |
| 2007_DC_FONZ_Viewing_070914 | 13 | DC -- FONZ Viewing -- Meet the Cheetahs and Zebras
Meet the Cheetahs and Zebras: Meet the National Zoo's three new cheetahs and take an exclusive tour of the Cheetah Conservation Station. The two-year-old brothers -- Draco, Granger, and Zabini -- are named after characters in the Harry Potter stories. They arrived earlier this summer and will be part of... |
| 2006_DC_FONZ_Viewing_060830 | 87 | DC -- FONZ Viewing -- Sumatran tiger cubs pre-opening viewing
This was a donor event for the new Sumatran tiger cubs. We got to see them before they went on exhibit to the public.
While there, I got to meet the new executive director of FONZ, Robert J. Lamb. He had been selected June 5 of this year. According to the FONZ press release about the... |
| 1981_DC_SINZ_Cat | 17 | DC -- Natl Zoological Park -- Big Cats |
| 1982_DC_SINZ_Cat | 25 | DC -- Natl Zoological Park -- Big Cats |
| 1984_DC_SINZ_Cat | 8 | DC -- Natl Zoological Park -- Big Cats |
| 1985_DC_SINZ_Cat | 16 | DC -- Natl Zoological Park -- Big Cats |
| 1996_DC_SINZ_Cat | 25 | DC -- Natl Zoological Park -- Big Cats |
| 1997_DC_SINZ_Cat | 413 | DC -- Natl Zoological Park -- Big Cats |
| 1998_DC_SINZ_Cat | 276 | DC -- Natl Zoological Park -- Big Cats |
| 1999_DC_SINZ_Cat | 472 | DC -- Natl Zoological Park -- Big Cats |
| 2000_DC_SINZ_Cat | 10 | DC -- Natl Zoological Park -- Big Cats |
| 2001_DC_SINZ_Cat | 26 | DC -- Natl Zoological Park -- Big Cats |
| 2002_DC_SINZ_Cat | 62 | DC -- Natl Zoological Park -- Big Cats |
| 2003_DC_SINZ_Cat | 46 | DC -- Natl Zoological Park -- Big Cats |
| 2004_DC_SINZ_Cat | 60 | DC -- Natl Zoological Park -- Big Cats
The National Zoo’s had three male Sumatran tiger cubs born on May 2, 2004. They went on public exhibit in August, 2004, weighing about 30 pounds.
They are the third generation of Sumatran tigers at the National Zoo. They join a multi-generational family at the National Zoo that includes their... |
| 2005_DC_SINZ_Cat | 71 | DC -- Natl Zoological Park -- Big Cats
Including two batches of new cheetah cubs. |
| 2006_DC_SINZ_Cat | 59 | DC -- Natl Zoological Park -- Big Cats
Several visits: ... |
| 2007_DC_SINZ_Cat | 40 | DC -- Natl Zoological Park -- Big Cats
Mostly pictures of the new cheetahs but also includes the fishing cat in the Asia Trail section. |
| 2008_DC_SINZ_Cat | 24 | DC -- Natl Zoological Park -- Big Cats |
| 2010_DC_SINZ_Cat | 56 | DC -- Natl Zoological Park -- Big Cats
The lion parents (the dad fathered three cubs with one mother and four with the other) were out for their jaunt. Around noon, they were brought inside so the cubs could come out. |
| 2011_DC_SINZ_Cat | 35 | DC -- Natl Zoological Park -- Big Cats
All seven of the cubs out in the yard. |
| 2012_DC_SINZ_Cat | 30 | DC -- Natl Zoological Park -- Big Cats
Including the new cheetah cubs. |
| 2019_DC_SINZ_Cat | 36 | DC -- Natl Zoological Park -- Big Cats |
| 2020_DC_SINZ_Cat | 43 | DC -- Natl Zoological Park -- Big Cats |
| 2022_DC_SINZ_Cat | 3 | DC -- Natl Zoological Park -- Big Cats |
| 2023_DC_SINZ_Cat | 20 | DC -- Natl Zoological Park -- Big Cats |
| 2010_DC_SINZ_CatC_101224 | 64 | DC -- Natl Zoological Park -- Big Cats (cubs outing)
The cubs starting coming out the previous weekend. Awww...
The cubs, born in August and September, have been introduced to their father inside the storage pens but they haven't been allowed outside together. There's a chance that dad will kill the male cubs if he doesn't recognize them as his own and... |
| 2011_VA_SCBI_Cheetahs | 58 | VA -- Front Royal -- Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute (SCBI) -- Cheetahs
In December 2010, the Zoo celebrated the birth of two cheetah cubs at the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute (SCBI)—the Zoo facility in Front Royal, Virginia. The cubs were born to two separate females (the first, a male, to five-year-old Amani on December 6, the second, a female, to... |