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Where Do Many Of The Animals At The National Zoo Of La

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A large bird, called an Abyssinian ground hornbill, stands in the grass holding food in its bill. It has dark feathers, strong legs, large eyes, and a long, down-curved bill with a casque (or helmet-like structure)

Abyssinian ground hornbill

Olive and black frog resting underwater. Its underparts are white, flat head, & front legs have extremely long, pointed fingers

African clawed frog

An African pancake tortoise with a flat shell, scaled limbs and a small head

African pancake tortoise

This animal is not currently on showroom.

A lizard with a long, squat body, short legs and thick, plated scales.

African Plated Cadger

Aldabra Tortoise in the grass

Aldabra tortoise

Allen's Swamp Monkey in the grass

Allen's swamp monkey

A small lizard, called an alligator lizard, with blue-green scales, a long, thick tail and short arms and legs. It is wrapped around a green plant

Alligator cadger

Alligator snapping turtle

A close-up of a beige alpaca's face

Alpaca

American alligator in the grass

American alligator

American bison Lucy

American bison

flamingo sitting in grass

American flamingo

This animal is not currently on showroom.

Andean Bear gray background

Andean comport

Whitish snakelike animal underwater.

Aquatic caecilian

arapaima in water

Arapaima

Asian elephant

An Asian small-clawed otter in the grass. It is a weasel-like animal with small ears, whiskers, sleek, coarse fur, and a long tail.

Asian small-clawed otter

An Asian water dragon with long claws, a long, thin tail and scaly body

Asian h2o dragon

Two Australian snake-necked turtles that are dark gray with light spots on their undersides and around the edge of their shells swims in the water

Australian ophidian-necked turtle

Bald Eagle leaf background

Bald hawkeye

Striking alternate bands of black and pale orange adorn this fish

Banded leporinus

Gray-furred, long-nosed critter with numerous thin dark bands across its back

Banded mongoose

This animal is not currently on exhibit.

A gray snake with black-blotched stripes along its body, called a banded rock rattlesnake, rests with its head on its body in sand. It is nestled between branches and the arms of a green, cactus-looking plant

Banded rock rattlesnake

large gray and white owl sitting on a post

Barred owl

This brute is not currently on showroom.

A small salamander, called a barred tiger salamander, with smooth, dark, yellow-spotted skin spotted. The salamander stands on a wet, mossy rock.

Barred tiger salamander

A beaver with thick, wet fur, long claws and whiskers stands in shallow water and rocks

Beaver

A small Bennett's wallaby, with brown fur, short arms and a long tail, standing in tall grass

Bennett's wallaby

A binturong with a low, wide, muscular body, shaggy fur, whiskers, and tufted eyebrows

Binturong

Black monkey with thick fur and a rather dour expression

Black howler monkey

This animal is not currently on exhibit.

blackish fish, dorsal view showing intricate patterning of scales

Black pacu

A small black-and-white ruffed lemur with thick fur, a mane around its face, long fingers and a long tail sits perched on a log

Black-and-white ruffed lemur

A black-crowned night heron perched in a tree surrounded by green leaves

Black-crowned night heron

This animal is not currently on exhibit.

Black Footed Ferret sandy background

Black-footed ferret

Two baby prairie dogs touching noses

Black-tailed prairie canis familiaris

large gray bird with curvy neck and dagger-like yellow bill

Blue crane

This animal is not currently on exhibit.

large black bird with a long tail and legs and a short, stubby bill perched on a branch

Blue-billed curassow

This animal is non currently on exhibit.

A large snake with a black and white diamond pattern rests on a log near fallen leaves and dirt

Boa constrictor

This animal is not currently on exhibit.

A bobcat sitting in an outdoor habitat near leafy plants

Bobcat

Olive snake with black outlines of circles on its back

Brazilian rainbow boa

A brown pelican, with a gray-brown body, white neck and head, and long bill

Brown pelican

This animal is not currently on exhibit.

Furry brown small mammal that vaguely resembles a rabbit

Brush-tailed bettong

Huge snake coiled with head at center. Body is patterned with blotches of brown and separated by bands of white

Burmese rock python

Burrowing owl

This creature is not currently on showroom.

Caiman lizard

Sea lion standing on a rock with its blackish flippers visible

California bounding main lion

Caracal lynx

This brute is not currently on exhibit.

A chameleon forest dragon with mottled brown skin and a spiked crest at the base of its neck.

Chameleon forest dragon

This animal is not currently on exhibit.

Pale-colored fish with pronounced whiskers and open mouths swimming at the water's surface

Channel catfish

Cheetah

Chicken

large spider with a blackish body and long gray hair

Chilean rose tarantula

This fauna is non currently on exhibit.

Upper body and head of a grayish alligator

Chinese alligator

A Chinese alligator lizard standing on a rock in the water

Chinese crocodile lizard

A small box turtle with a dark stripe across its eye and three stripes across its shell pokes its head out of the water

Chinese three-striped box turtle

Clouded leopard in a tree

Clouded leopard

Two collared brown lemurs stand together on a large rock with grass and a shrub in the background

Collared dark-brown lemur

Common peafowl

A medium-sized black bird, called a common raven, perched on a tree branch

Mutual raven

Lady Elliot Reef

Corals and body of water anemones (anthozoa)

A red-orange snake with dark red spots, called a corn snake, moving over a piece of wood

Corn snake

coronated tree frog

Coronated tree frog

A black-and-white holstein calf (cow) running through the grass in front of the barn at Smithsonian's National Zoo's Kids' Farm exhibit

Moo-cow

A large reptile, called a crocodile monitor, with long, curved claws, a lean body and scaly, spotted skin, climbs over rocks that line a pond and sticks its forked tongue out toward the water

Crocodile Monitor

Cuban Crocodile

Cuban crocodile

A dama gazelle with short, curled horns and long legs grazes on grass in the sun

Dama gazelle

This animal is only at SCBI.

Small golden-brown furry animal with no eyes and enormous teeth, two on the top and two on the bottom

Damaraland mole rat

This animal is not currently on exhibit.

Small furry animal

Degu

A dwarf mongoose standing on a rock

Dwarf mongoose

An eastern box turtle standing in mulch

Eastern box turtle

An eastern diamondback rattlesnake with light gray skin covered in mottled black and cream colored scales is curled up in the mulch, resting its head on its body

Eastern diamondback rattlesnake

This fauna is not currently on exhibit.

Head of long, shiny, black snack with a black eye and forked tongue outretched. The lower neck and face are a paler brown color

Eastern indigo snake

A small, yellow eastern newt swims through the water near a leafy, green frond

Eastern newt

Thin, wormlike salamander with miniscule front legs and large eyes. The skin is wet-looking and reddish-brown speckled w/ blac

Eastern red-backed salamander

An eld's deer with horns stands against a backdrop of trees with orange leaves

Eld's deer

This animal is just at SCBI.

An electric eel swimming in the water over sand against a black backdrop

Electric eel

An emerald tree monitor lizard climbing on a branch with leaves

Emerald tree monitor

Emperor newt

A small monkey, called an emperor tamarin, with dark fur, little ears and a long, curled, whispy, white "mustache" is perched in a tree

Emperor tamarin

Huge, shaggy gray bird walking in long grass

Emu

This beast is not currently on exhibit.

Coiled bright yellow snake with cat-like pupils

Eyelash palm pitviper

A snake with light brown, black and gray stripes, called a false water cobra, coiled up with its head resting on its body

Imitation h2o cobra

Fennec fox

A Fiji banded iguana

Fiji banded iguana

A medium-sized cat with thick fur with dark spots and stripes hunches down on a rock near water

Line-fishing true cat

Silver fish with orange tint to fins

Flagtail characin

A fly river, or pig-nosed, turtle swimming through the water. It has leathery skin, flipper-like forelimbs and a large snout

Fly River turtle

A fat, warty toad with a big mouth and eyes. The skin is pale underneath and mottled cream and black above

Fowler'southward toad

This animal is not currently on exhibit.

A freshwater stingray with a gray body and brown-black spots swimming over gravel and sand

Freshwater stingray

A snake, called a Gaboon viper, with a large body covered in white and black scales and two small horns extending from the tip of its snout.

Gaboon viper

This animal is non currently on exhibit.

A small monkey, called a Geoffroy's marmoset, perched on a tree branch. The monkey has long fur black, orange and white fur and long tufts of fur on either side of its face.

Geoffroy'southward marmoset

This animate being is not currently on exhibit.

long-nosed looking alligator

Gharial

Baby anteater riding piggy back on its mother. They look identical to each other wtih long snouts, gray fur, and black chests

Giant anteater

This fauna is non currently on showroom.

A giant leaf-tailed gecko held in a person's hand and looking directly at the camera

Giant foliage-tailed gecko

a giant panda eats bamboo

Giant panda

Large variegated black and pink lizard with prominent and numerous beads on the oily-looking skin

Gila monster

A small goat wearing a collar walks through a grassy yard at the Kids' Farm exhibit

Goat

A shaggy, black-haired monkey, called a Goeldi's monkey, perched on a tree branch

Goeldi's monkey

A small, furry, orange primate called a golden lion tamarin perched on a branch

Golden lion tamarin

Bright orange small frog with ebony eyes

Gilded mantella frog

This animal is non currently on exhibit.

A golden-headed lion tamarin -- a small, furry primate with black and orange fur and an orange-red mane -- perched on a branch

Gilded-headed lion tamarin

very large brown spider with hairy legs

Goliath bird-eating tarantula

This animal is non currently on showroom.

Cayman Island blue iguana

Grand Cayman blue iguana

Gray seal

Pale green frog sitting. It has darker olive patterning on its back and legs

Gray tree frog

This animal is non currently on showroom.

Gray wolf

This animate being is not currently on showroom.

small animal with black and tan bristly fur and a short pointed snout

Greater Madagascar hedgehog tenrec

This animate being is non currently on showroom.

Large gray bird with long, curved neck and long legs

Greater rhea

This animal is non currently on exhibit.

Olive green large snake

Light-green anaconda

A colorful bird with a large bill, called a green aracari,perched on a branch

Green aracari

Green crested basilisk

This animal is not currently on exhibit.

Skinny salamander with marbled coloration of pale green and black

Green salamander

A green snake with bright yellow spots, called a green tree python, wrapped around a tree branch

Green tree python

Green-winged macaw on a rope. Its head and tail are scarlet with blue and green mixed in on its wings and tail

Green-winged macaw

This fauna is not currently on exhibit.

Two large hoofed animals with bold black and white stripes

Grevy'south zebra

A Guam kingfisher perched on a tree branch

Guam kingfisher

This creature is only at SCBI.

A Guam rail bird standing in the grass

Guam track

This animal is only at SCBI.

A guinea pig about the size of a large potato with soft fur and floppy ears

Republic of guinea pig

closeup of two harbor seals touching their heads together

Harbor seal

This creature is not currently on exhibit.

A small, multicolored parrot perched on a branch with a flower in one claw

Hawk-headed parrot

large, fat salamander with a big head and mottled olive coloration that blends in with the gravel. Its sides are wrinkled.

Hellbender

A small tortoise, called a Home's hinge-back tortoise, with a yellow and brown shell and short, scaly legs stands on a bed of leaves

Home's hinge-back tortoise

Hooded crane

This animal is merely at SCBI.

Duck with a shocking black crest with white interior, thin black bill, black back and brown sides floating on water

Hooded merganser

This animal is non currently on exhibit.

A small tortoise with a boxy shell, called an impressed tortoise, sits tucked into a pile of fallen leaves

Impressed tortoise

This animate being is not currently on showroom.

A small reptile, called an Iranian gecko, with short limbs, a thick striped tail and mottled brown and yellow patterning

Iranian Fat-tailed Gecko

Side view of a large salamander showing the front legs

Japanese giant salamander

An orange and white Japanese koi fish swimming in a pond

Japanese koi

Large olive snake with prominent scales on its head

King cobra

black and white feathered king vulture staring ominously at you with beady, white eyes, and a colorful yellow and red head

King vulture

This animal is non currently on showroom.

Lizard resting on the grass with its legs outstretched

Komodo dragon

Kori bustard, a turkey-sized bird with gray and white plumage, with inflated neck

Kori bustard

This animal is not currently on exhibit.

La Plata three banded armadillo

La Plata iii-banded armadillo

A lance head rattlesnake curled up in the sand

Lance caput rattlesnake

land hermit crab

Land hermit crab

Miniature deer-like creature with golden-yellow and brown fur

Larger Malay mouse-deer

This brute is not currently on exhibit.

Brilliant lime green frog with yellow accents on its flanks and toes. Its eyes are huge and black with a narrow pale white iris

Lemur leaf frog

large gray deerlike animal with elegantly twisted horns spiralling upward and thin white longitudinal stripes on its body

Lesser kudu

The tan fur on the body of this small critter looks quite thick and spiny

Lesser Madagascar hedgehog tenrec

African lion laying down with greenery in the background

Lion

A loggerhead shrike perched on a branch

Loggerhead shrike

This fauna is just at SCBI.

Luxuriant soft gray fur on a small mammal

Long-tailed chinchilla

A long skinny yellow salamander with intricate black markings scattered about

Long-tailed salamander

A large, bright green lizard (called a Madgascar giant day gecko) perched on the side of a tree, looking toward the ground

Madagascar Giant 24-hour interval Gecko

A rat next to a plant

Malagasy behemothic jumping rat

This beast is not currently on exhibit.

maned wolf running across snowy field

Maned wolf

a black and yellow mangrove snake on a branch

Mangrove snake

A matamata turtle swimming through water

Matamata turtle

A small mammal, called a meerkat, with light-brown fur with dark brown stripes along its back.

Meerkat

This animal is not currently on exhibit.

A Meller's chameleon perched on a branch in an exhibit at the Smithsonian's National Zoo's Reptile Discovery Center

Meller's chameleon

Petite white horselike creature grazing on green grass

Miniature donkey

a naked mole-rat sits behind green leafy vegetables

Naked mole-rat

A New Caledonian gecko

New Caledonian gecko

North American porcupine (small, dark colored animal with long white quills) in a tree

North American porcupine

A North American river otter climbing over a snowy log

North American river otter

a young kiwi with a long pale bill, beady black eyes, long gray legs, and brown hairlike feathers

N Island chocolate-brown kiwi

This animal is only at SCBI.

A copper colored snake with dark bands along its body, called a northern copperhead

Northern copperhead

A northern Luzon giant cloud rat, a large rodent with thick fur, stands on mulch between large rocks

Northern Luzon giant deject rat

A northern pine snake, with its head and neck lifted

Northern pino ophidian

A northern red salamander climbing over rocks

Northern ruby-red salamander

A northern snakehead fish swimming through water underneath a rock ledge

Northern snakehead fish

A bushy tail and a long snout on a grayish-black furry animal

Northern tree shrew

Small brown rodent with beady eyes, small ears, and a long tail

Kingdom of norway rat

This animal is not currently on exhibit.

A Bornean orangutan sitting in the grass

Orangutan

Jet black toad with flames of brilliant across fanning across its belly. The head is mottled with green

Oriental fire-bellied toad

Ossabaw Island grunter

This animal is not currently on exhibit.

terrapin with red forehead held by keeper

Painted river terrapin

Black body and central face with enormous white patches on the face. The fingers are long and fine

Pale-headed saki monkey

A Pallas' cat with long fur, a flat face, and a stocky body runs across a tree branch

Pallas' Cat

golden frog white background

Panamanian golden frog

Patagonian mara

Patagonian mara

A Perdido Key beach mouse, a small rodent with light-colored fur, large black eyes, large ears and whiskers, climbs over a small rock

Perdido Primal Beach Mouse

This animal is not currently on showroom.

An adult and juvenile Persian onager standing in the grass

Persian onager

This beast is only at SCBI.

Crocodile with grayish-green upperparts and dark bars. Underparts are a snowy white. Numerous teeth are visible.

Philippine crocodile

large, hairy, gray spider. The tips of the legs are a pale pink

Pink-toed tarantula

This brute is non currently on exhibit.

Olive bottom dwelling fish with bright yellow spots all over its body

Plecostomus

mottled brown and white frog stepping across a leaf

Poisonous substance frogs

Black and white spiky quills adorn the entire body of this medium-sized mammal

Prehensile-tailed porcupine

A squirrel with audacious patterning of black, cream, chestnut brown and orangey gold.

Prevost's squirrel

Tan and buff horse standing in a grassy field. The mane, nose, legs, and tail are a dark brown

Przewalski's horse

Black and yellow turtle in the grass. A yellow spot in the center of each scute has yellow rays extending from it

Radiated tortoise

A red panda standing in a tree, using its front paw to hold a branch and eat leaves

Red panda

A red river hog with a long, knobbly snout, short legs, a slender tail and ears with long tufts of hair, grazes in the grass and dirt

Ruddy River hog

This beast is not currently on exhibit.

A red-ruffed lemur with thick, red fur, a black chest, face and hands, white eyes and red ear tufts sits on a rock

Scarlet ruffed lemur

A red siskin bird perched on a tree branch

Red siskin

This animal is not currently on exhibit.

Silver fish with orange-red blush to its belly swimming underwater

Red-bellied piranha

This beast is not currently on exhibit.

gray and white bird with a scarlet crest and head

Red-crested cardinal

This animal is non currently on showroom.

A red-crowned crane

Red-crowned crane

This animal is only at SCBI.

Blackish-shelled tortoise with a long shell. Each scute on its back has a rectangular, yellow center

Cherry-footed tortoise

A small, rust-colored lemur with thick fur crouches next to a pumpkin and sticks its tongue out

Cherry-red-fronted lemur

This animal is non currently on exhibit.

Scarlet-rumped agouti

A close up of a green snake, called a rhinoceros snake, with a horn protruding from the tip of its nose slithers along a branch

Rhinoceros ophidian

Two ring-tailed lemurs with thick fur, yellow eyes, and ringed tails sit close together on a small wooden deck

Ring-tailed lemur

Front view of a brown furry animal

Rock cavy

This animal is not currently on showroom.

A small, furry brown mammal, called a rock hyrax

Rock hyrax

Bright pink-winged bird with a pinkish blush to the rest of the plumage. The bill is long and widened at the tip.

Roseate spoonbill

Ruppell'due south griffon vulture

Sand cat

Grayish-brown monkey sitting with its long reddish-brown tail draped over a rock

Schmidt's cherry-tailed monkey

scimitar-horned oryx laying in grass

Scimitar-horned oryx

This animate being is only at SCBI.

small armadillo with a pale tan coloration

Screaming hairy armadillo

Numerous and lengthy whiskers on a tiny animal

Short-eared elephant shrew

This creature is non currently on exhibit.

A medium-sized, black-furred gibbon, called a siamang, perched on a tree stump holding a piece of corn in each hand

Siamang

Long silver fish near the water's surface

Silver arowana

a sinaloan milk snake

Sinaloan milksnake

This animal is not currently on exhibit.

Two gray deerlike animals playfully shoving each other's heads with their horns

Sitatunga

A sloth bear with shaggy black fur climbing in a tree

Sloth bear

A small lizard called a Smallwood's anole crawls along the side of a piece of wood. It has blue-green mottled, scaly skin, small eyes and long digits with claws

Smallwood'due south anole

A robust toad with a creamy back and darker brown sides

Shine-sided toad

perched sparrow with a stubby, conical bill and mostly white breast with subtle hues of brown and gray on its face and back

Southern swamp sparrow

This animate being is not currently on exhibit.

Pale-furred animal with a long snout on a branch

Southern tamandua

Spider tortoise

A lizard, called a spiny-tailed monitor, with a long body and tail, short legs, clawed digits and a spotted pattern of scales.

Spiny-tailed monitor

A small turtle with dark brown and white-spotted, scaly skin and a dome-shaped shell stands on a table with greenery in the background.

Spotted Swimming Turtle

Black animal with broad white stripe across its body

Striped skunk

This beast is not currently on exhibit.

perched bird with long legs and beak

Sunbittern

small maroon songbird on perch

Tanagers

This animal is not currently on exhibit.

A dark gray-brown snake, called a Taylor's cantil, with white stripes on its head and light, triangular marks down its body

Taylor'south cantil

A tentacled snake swimming in water with green plants in the background

Tentacled Snake

Amur tiger Nikita makes her debut at the Smithsonian's National Zoo's Great Cats exhibit on Feb. 26, 2019.

Tiger

A timber rattlesnake with pale gray scales, dark-brown bands around its body, a brown stripe down its back and a rattle at the tip of its tail

Timber rattlesnake

A close-up photo of a timor python, its face resting on its curled up body.

Timor python

Two white-eared titi monkeys (small monkeys with thick fur, small ears and long tails) perch on a branch eating fruit held in their hands

Titi monkey

This beast is not currently on exhibit.

A gray-blue gecko with rust-orange spots holds onto a tan branch

Tokay gecko

A tomato frog in someone's hand

Tomato frog

A tomistoma, a crocodile-like reptile with a long, slender snout, surfaces in the water. Its teeth can be seen on its top and bottom jaw along its snout, with the longest protruding from the tip of the snout

Tomistoma

catfish has long thin body

Twig catfish

sloth in a tree

Two-toed sloth

Frog on a branch with incredibly warty skin in varying shades of green

Vietnamese mossy frog

A common opossum crawling in the dirt surrounded by greenery

Virginia opossum

This animal is not currently on exhibit.

A bright red long beak adorns a black-and-white bird

Von der Decken'south hornbill

Western lowland gorilla

Puffy tree frog with dull green coloration sitting on a branch

White's tree frog

This beast is not currently on showroom.

Black, long-armed ape with white cheek patches holding a rope in its long arms

White-cheeked gibbon

This animal is non currently on exhibit.

Two adult white naped cranes and chicks

White-naped crane

This animal is only at SCBI.

coati on a branch

White-nosed coati

Very large pure white bird with reddish crown and black moustached and long pointed bill

Whooping crane

This animal is only at SCBI.

A multicolored wood duck with red eyes and webbed feet stands on a rock

Wood duck

This animate being is not currently on exhibit.

Yellow-spotted Amazon River turtle swimming underwater

Yellow-spotted Amazon river turtle

Source: https://nationalzoo.si.edu/animals/list

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