Credit: Boo at the Zoo returns Oct. 18, 19 and 20 at Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute. (Courtesy Juan-Carlos Briceno, Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute)

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