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Subscribers 56.9K

Videos 1.1K

Views 38.5M

Channels Like Smithsonian's National Zoo

Smithsonian's National Zoo covers animal care, conservation, and education content focusing on species like pandas, gorillas, otters, elephants, lions, and tigers. The channel features a mix of long-form videos and shorts that showcase births, enrichment, behavior, and daily life at the zoo, aligning with keywords such as zoo, national zoo, animals, science, and conservation. With 56.9K subscribers, 38.5M total views, 1100 videos published, and activity since Aug 25, 2008, the channel averages around 1.2M views per video.

Results last updated 4 months ago.

Similar Channels

We found 41 YouTube channels similar to Smithsonian's National Zoo

#1

Nat Geo Animals

86% relevance

Subscribers 6.3M

Videos 4.2K

Views 1.8B

Appearances 18

SERP 100%

Similarity 76%

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They target similar animal-focused queries like giant pandas care and tiger cub behavior, reflecting high search overlap (100% for searches) but their content diverges in style, giving a 76% content match with National Zoo.

#2

BBC Earth view on YouTube ▶

60% relevance

Subscribers 14.3M

Videos 3.3K

Views 5.5B

Appearances 14

SERP 40%

Similarity 73%

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Both channels cover wildlife and animal development topics such as giant pandas care and lion/tiger cub development, matching on searches (40% overlap) while their presentation differs, resulting in a 73% content similarity.

#3

Toronto Zoo

59% relevance

Subscribers 196K

Videos 1K

Views 129.1M

Appearances 5

SERP 29%

Similarity 79%

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Shares audience interest in zoo-related births and animal births (panda birth at zoo, gorilla birth video), aligning with National Zoo in queries but differs in production style, evidenced by 79% content similarity.

#4

Northumberland Zoo

58% relevance

Subscribers 12.9K

Videos 266

Views 2.1M

Appearances 6

SERP 18%

Similarity 84%

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Connects on themes of zoo animal enrichment and enrichment toys (common search terms) but emphasizes different institutional content, yielding an 84% content overlap yet only 18% search overlap.

#5

ZOOSnippets

57% relevance

Subscribers 2.2K

Videos 77

Views 3.5M

Appearances 5

SERP 28%

Similarity 77%

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Targets enrichment topics (otter, elephant enrichment) that echo National Zoo’s animal care content, with similar 77% content match but lower 28% search overlap.

#6

iPanda

57% relevance

Subscribers 9.0M

Videos 12K

Views 935.0M

Appearances 8

SERP 22%

Similarity 81%

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Focuses on giant pandas care and panda births similar to National Zoo, showing strong search alignment (22%) and high content similarity (81%).

Content Landscape

Discovered competitors include Nat Geo Animals (86% match) and BBC Earth (60% match) as top rivals. They share overlapping queries with Smithsonian’s National Zoo such as giant pandas care, tiger cub behavior, and snow panda behaviour. The Toronto Zoo (59% match) also competes on queries like gorilla birth video and panda birth at zoo. These competitors vary in size, with Nat Geo Animals at 6.3M subscribers and BBC Earth at 14.3M subscribers, while Smithsonian’s National Zoo has 56.9K subscribers, highlighting a substantial subscriber gap but similar topic overlap around animal births, enrichment, and panda-related content.

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#7	56%	Tiger Show Life	72%	9.5K	31%	7
#8	55%	pandapia HD	81%	458K	16%	5
#9	55%	Oregon Zoo	83%	198K	12%	4
#10	54%	Cute Zoo	78%	719K	17%	6
#11	54%	Real Science	68%	2.1M	31%	5
#12	53%	XoXo viral	80%	3.1K	14%	1
#13	53%	Nature Bites	77%	298K	17%	6
#14	53%	Polish Dr Dolittle	81%	17.1K	11%	1
#15	53%	John Ball Zoo	81%	3.4K	11%	2
#16	53%	Smart Pizza	74%	244K	21%	2
#17	52%	BBC ▶	65%	15.4M	33%	7
#18	52%	Saint Louis Zoo	79%	56.1K	11%	3
#19	52%	Peak Wildlife Park	78%	303K	12%	2
#20	52%	San Diego Zoo	77%	722K	15%	4
#21	51%	elephantsanctuarytn	75%	44.6K	16%	2
#22	51%	CGTN ▶	69%	5.0M	24%	4
#23	51%	The Big Cat Sanctuary	76%	194K	13%	2
#24	50%	George Cuevas	76%	113K	11%	1
#25	50%	The Panda Man Official	58%	15.4K	37%	8
#26	49%	Monkey Life	75%	68.9K	11%	1
#27	49%	Cougar Mountain Zoo	74%	1.7K	11%	1
#28	49%	WILD NATURE - Nature animal documentary	73%	192K	13%	4
#29	49%	National Geographic ▶	65%	25.9M	25%	5
#30	49%	Our World	71%	534K	15%	5
#31	47%	Paul Rose	71%	6.5K	12%	4
#32	47%	Learn Bright	70%	896K	13%	2
#33	46%	TED-Ed ▶	64%	22.4M	20%	2
#34	44%	Tallinn Zoological Gardens	65%	1.7K	14%	1
#35	44%	Pet Moments	65%	16.7K	11%	1
#36	43%	FishLoft	65%	4.5K	11%	1
#37	43%	The Oregonian	65%	488K	11%	1
#38	43%	BBC Ideas	62%	678K	15%	2
#39	43%	Eyecraftmc ▶	64%	917K	11%	1
#40	41%	South Florida PBS	61%	113K	11%	1
#41	39%	BBC News ▶	57%	19.4M	14%	1

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Frequently Asked Questions

Which YouTube channels are most similar to Smithsonian's National Zoo?

Nat Geo Animals — 86% match, 6.3M subscribers; BBC Earth — 60% match, 14.3M subscribers; Toronto Zoo — 59% match, 196K subscribers. All are nature or animal-focused channels with broad wildlife content and educational programming that target similar audiences interested in animals, conservation, and science.

What type of content does Smithsonian's National Zoo make?

Smithsonian's National Zoo creates videos about animals, conservation, and zoo operations, as seen in titles like The Pandas Are Coming!, Bao Bao's First Snow Day!, Asian Small-Clawed Otters Celebrate Enrichment at the Smithsonian's National Zoo, B-Roll: Western lowland gorilla Calaya giving birth, and Watch Screaming Hairy Armadillo Sherman Go Wild For His Enrichment Toy. Upload frequency is indicated as about 1.2M average views per video, with multiple videos per week, though an exact weekly upload count is not provided.

How do we determine which channels are similar to Smithsonian's National Zoo?

We analyze Smithsonian's National Zoo's recent videos, generate topic-relevant search queries, check YouTube search results, and compare the meaning of each channel's content to measure similarity. The result is a ranked list sorted by SERP overlap, semantic similarity, and search appearances.

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