One of the great interspecies love stories of our time has come to an end. Walnut, a white-naped crane and internet celebrity, has passed away at age 42. She is survived by eight chicks, the loving ...
Walnut the crane died Jan. 2 at the Smithsonian's National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute campus in Front Royal, Virginia.(Courtesy Chris Crowe, Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation ...
Photos and video are available to download in the Zoo’s newsroom. Staff at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute’s (NZCBI) campus in Front Royal, Virginia, are mourning the ...
FARGO — Mother's Day was a momentous occasion for the white-naped cranes at the Red River Zoo. Parents Stanley and Dumpling had the zoo’s first white-naped crane chick. The chick was born on Sunday, ...
On Mother's Day, the Fargo zoo welcomed its first ever white-naped crane chick, adding a new bird to the threatened species A day-old white-naped crane stands next to its mother Monday, May 15, 2023, ...