Granger, Draco and Zabini (Jessie Cohen, Smithsonian’s National Zoo)

We here at DCist know how much you love to squee at cute animals during your workday. But not every bit of National Zoo news can involve a newborn baby, a panda or, lest your head will explode, a newborn baby panda cub. Absent since 2009, three 5½-year-old cheetah brothers — named Draco, Granger and Zabini — have returned to the Smithsonian’s National Zoo in time for Thanksgiving weekend. The three had been living at the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute’s Cheetah Science Facility in Front Royal for a cooperative breeding and conservation program and will join Tumai, a 10-year-old female cheetah already on exhibit. We first welcomed this coalition of brothers back in 2007.