The cases at the National Zoo are not an isolated instance of zoo cats contracting coronavirus. Early in the pandemic, the Bronx Zoo experienced an outbreak among its big cats, and in July, a snow ...

“I heard a leopard cough somewhere on the slopes above us,” the British explorer Wilfred Thesiger wrote in “Arabian Sands,” ...

All the big cats at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo that tested positive for COVID-19 are improving and eating, zoo officials said Friday, with two tigers and one lion testing negative Thursday.

The Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute is home to some of nature’s most fascinating creatures, and ...

National Geographic contacted the Bronx ... more susceptible to coronavirus than other animals. None of the zoo’s other big cats—including snow leopards, cheetahs, a clouded leopard, an ...

Hidden deep in the list of collaborations between the United States and Saudi Arabia lies a peculiar one: leopards. What you ...

a muscular 300-pound cat appears to be sleeping. She has thick orange and black fur, and her paws are as big as salad plates. A couple dozen National Zoo staffers are gathered in close.

When I read last month that the National Zoo was acquiring a Virginia opossum ... like the wrinkly African elephants and the snarling big cats that we’ve come to expect from zoos.