How Are National Zoo Animals Handling DC's 'Code Purple' Air Quality?

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How Are National Zoo Animals Handling DC's 'Code Purple' Air Quality?
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The pandas are partying inside today. 🐼

The National Zoo's Andean bear cub brothers play outside on a clearer day. Photograph courtesy of the Smithsonian National Zoo.

DC’s Smithsonian National Zoo closed its doors today—for the first time since it reopened from its pandemic closure more than two years ago—as hazardous air chokes the DC area. Many Washingtonians are keeping pets indoors . But how are the zoo animals weathering the smoke? All animals with lungs are vulnerable to bad air quality, and “several animals that spend the vast majority of their time in their outdoor habitats have been moved indoors,” says Pamela Baker-Masson, the zoo’s director of communications.—and any animals with respiratory issues.Our concerns for animals are in line with those for humans,” says the zoo’s chief veterinarian, Donald Neiffer.

Orangutans, western lowland gorillas, and other animals who live in the Great Ape House and Think Tank exhibit are indoors. All of the zoo’s pandas are inside for the day—catch them noshing on bamboo on theOther animals, including elephants, can move between indoor and outdoor areas. Birds in the semi-outdoor Bird House are in the open air for the time being, but the zoo says staff are monitoring them closely, too.

The zoo made the decision to close when the Air Quality Index hit code purple. Baker-Masson says the decision to reopen will be happen one day at a time.

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