A new exhibit featuring live animals opens at Whitaker Center on Friday. “Survival of the Slowest: Counterintuitive Adaptations” will teach visitors how some of the world’s slowest-moving species have ...

Hundreds gathered at the Woodland Park Zoo on Tuesday to break ground on its newest exhibit. Around 100 kids dug tiger-striped shovels into the ground at the zoo to start construction of the new $19.6 ...

The Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute (NZCBI) announced Jan. 6 that two sloth bear cubs were born in their care Dec. 7 and will debut in an exhibit this spring. The ...

Happening in Harrisburg, a new exhibit has made its way to the Whitaker Center! Starting February 27, visitors will get to ...

The tiny cubs, currently off-exhibit, are expected to debut in Spring 2026. Mike Bock Nearly one month old, the two sloth bear cubs are shown resting in their den on Jan. 5, 2026. Zoo staff are ...

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After this weekend, the Woodland Park Zoo's two sloth bears will spend a few years off exhibit while the zoo builds its new Asian tropical forest exhibit. So, this week will be visitors' last chance ...

For the Smithsonian National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute (NZCBI), Christmas came early in 2025. Zookeepers were delighted to welcome two new arrivals—sloth bear cubs, born in an off-exhibit ...

Two sloths living at the Jacksonville Zoo and Gardens have a new home with the opening of Sloth Crossing, the zoo's new habitat for Ruth, a 7-year-old female Linnaeus’s two-toed sloth, and Chata, a 29 ...

The cubs’ mother, Molly, arrived at the zoo from Kansas last April and her pregnancy occurred after a breeding recommendation from the Species Survival Plan The Smithsonian's National Zoo is ...

Talk about ending the year on a high note. The Smithsonian’s National Zoo closed out 2025 with a rare double dose of good news, welcoming two sloth bear cubs for the first time in more than a decade.

WASHINGTON, D.C. (WIBW) - A sloth bear who used to reside at Manhattan’s Sunset Zoo is now a first-time mom at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute. According to a social ...