Sports & Colleges
Clemson, Louisiana State University, and the Cincinnati NFL team all share this animal mascot.
What is the Tiger?
In the 1990s, this illness was found to have been expanded to impact not just cattle, but livestock, other animals, and even humans.
What is Mad Cow Disease?
Anthropologist Jane Goodall spent years in Tanzania studying this animal.
What is the Chimpanzee?
Though poisonous to most other mammals, a koala's diet primarily consists of leaves from this tree in the myrtle family.
The first exhibit at the zoo.
What is Farms?
The MLB has multiple mascots of the bird variety. Name one.
What is Cardinals, Orioles, Blue Jays...
A strong indicator that an animal is in good health, the veterinary acronym BAR stands for bright, alert, and this third adjective.
What is Responsive?
This U.S. founding father considered the turkey to be a more "respectable" bird than the bald eagle.
To help keep sand out of their eyes, camels have this many sets of eyelids.
What is three?
The three pillars of success that are part of the Zoo's mission.
What are caring, connecting, and conserving?
This animal is the mascot of Washington D.C.'s Howard University and was declared the U.S. national mammal in 2016.
What is the American Bison?
Due to the genes they inherit, around 80% of cats with pure white fur and this color eyes are born deceased.
Walt Disney is famously and ironically scared of this animal.
What is a mouse?
The non-venomous scarlet king snake bares a close resemblance to this lethal snake.
What is the coral snake?
The names of our two new bear cubs.
Who are Takelma and Sama?
At about the size of a soccer ball, the eyes of this colossal species of invertebrate are the largest of any animal.
What is the squid?
Acromegaly, a hormone disorder that causes an excess of bone growth in an animal's legs, is caused by an excess of hormones from this gland at the base of the brain.
What is Pituitary?
This dog breed was originally developed to hunt burrowing animals. In fact, their name means "badger hound" in German.
What is the Dachshund?
The only big cat that doesn't roar.
What is the cheetah?
The most expensive bagged animal grain in the zoo.
What is the Flamingo Diet?
Sharing its name with an animal, this sports brand was founded after a family feud between brothers and shoe manufacturers Adi and Rudi Dassler.
What is Puma?
Armadillos are one of the only North American mammals besides humans known to carry this disease, also known as Hansen's disease.
What is Leprosy?
In 2016, these two extraordinarily large rodents escaped Toronto's High Park Zoo and became an international news sensation referred to as Bonnie and Clyde.
What are capybaras?
The animal inspired name for the underside of a horse's hoof.
What is the frog?
The country our 6 African elephants came from.
What is Eswatini or Swaziland?