For the Smithsonian National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute (NZCBI), Christmas came early in 2025. Zookeepers were ...

The Great Plains Zoo announced on Monday that it will be hosting a birthday party for the six bears in their care on Monday, ...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) — The Great Plains Zoo held a big party for six bears that call the zoo home. The Sioux Falls Zoo ...

CHICAGO (WGN) – The Chicago Bears aren’t the only bears getting lots of attention Saturday. Like so many others, Brookfield Zoo Chicago is celebrating early, too. Megan Kalin and her son Hunter are ...

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 ...

The zoo added that the cubs’ sex has not yet been determined, and neither has been given a name yet. The cubs’ mother, Molly, arrived at the zoo from Sunset Zoo in Kansas last ...

Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute (NZCBI) in Washington, DC, recently celebrated the birth of two sloth bear cubs, with NZCBI noting it was the first birth of the species ...

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For the first time since 2014, keepers at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute (NZCBI) have welcomed two sloth bear cubs. The cubs were born Dec. 7 at approximately 2:30 ...

WASHINGTON — If you cross a bear with a sloth, what would you get? A sloth bear. And the Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute Zoo welcomed two sloth bear cubs that were born ...

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 ...

The Smithsonian's National Zoo is starting the new year with twice the excitement thanks to two sloth bear cubs.