Vibrant energy filled the Woodland Terrace community on Wednesday as children from the area clambered over obstacle courses, ate burgers and fried fish, got their faces painted, and chalked the sidewalks as a part of Woodland’s first annual petting zoo. 

Cheetah Conservation Station keepers at the Smithsonian National Zoo announced Thursday that a new male lesser kudu calf was born there last month. 

The Smithsonian National Zoo has welcomed a calf to the lesser kudu family.

Meet Jilian and Paitoon.

It would also build more security checkpoints and add perimeter fencing.

For the fourth time since December 2015, the Smithsonian’s National Zoo prehensile-tailed porcupines Bess and Clark brought life into the world.

Cue the friendly roughhousing.

The pups are spending most of their time in their nest as their eyes have yet to open, zoo officials say.

Brown kiwis originally hail from New Zealand, but this one emerged from her egg in Front Royal, Va.

That makes one of us.