Pandas are adored, but equally mocked as poorly adapted, evolutionary dead-ends. But while it might seem like they just loll ...

“At this stage of development, our animal care staff are feeding the chick with the Bronx Zoo-made puppet once a day and we ...

Why not just feed zoo animals whatever they eat in the wild? Michael Maslanka, who oversees the feeding of the 2,000 animals at the National Zoo, representing 400 species, gets that question a lot.