San Diego Zoo

The San Diego Zoo has announced the latest addition of its wild family – a male pygmy hippopotamus whose successful birth was the first of its kind at the zoo in more than 30 years.

The San Diego Zoo kicked off a 16-week free online video series for children ages 7 to 11 Wednesday, allowing kids to participate in virtual workshops to learn about the zoo’s animals.

The San Diego Zoo Safari Park announced the name of a giraffe calf born April 4. The winning name of the female calf — after a week-long online poll of more than 18,000 voters — is Zahara, San Diego Zoo Global officials said. The name is derived from Arabic origins. The other name voters could have chosen in the poll…

If you’ve lost track of how many weeks you’ve been at home, you need a Coronavirus Coffee Break. Refill your cup of coffee and enjoy watching two young penguins learn to swim!

The San Diego Zoo is closed for visitors due to the coronavirus, but zookeepers are hosting a virtual spring break to bring their animals to families while they shelter in place across the U.S. Virtual Mission: Spring Break is live and will be online through April 19. 

A koala joey who lost his mother to cancer is thriving thanks to zookeepers at the San Diego Zoo, who are providing him with round-the-clock care.

A former biologist admitted to stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars from the San Diego Zoo, the Office of the U.S. Attorney announced Thursday.

A baby hippopotamus born at the San Diego Zoo last month has a name. The zoo said the river hippo calf will be called Amahle (pronounced ah-MA-shay), which means “beautiful one” in Zulu. The name was announced Friday on “Good Morning America,” which held an online poll asking viewers to choose among three African names. Amahle, who was born on…

Zoo Miami is welcoming the arrival of a young male koala named Milo, who arrived in South Florida from the San Diego Zoo on May 3.

The San Diego Zoo Safari Park has given its new baby rhino a chance to do what all kids love: play in the mud.

The San Diego Zoo is tapping into the resilient and hopeful spirit from Down Under to host a weekend of activities to raise funds and awareness for relief efforts in the region.

A team of eye experts has operated on an unusual patient — a gorilla. A cataract was removed on Dec. 10 from the left eye of a 3-year-old western lowland gorilla who lives at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park, the park announced Monday.

The San Diego Zoo announced the death of one of its elephants Monday, and condolences poured in online for the majestic mammal who was a staple at the park for decades.

Two new platypuses zip, dive and splash in their new exhibit at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park but — as the first of their species to live outside Australia in a half-century — the pair of semi-aquatic mammals play a larger role to conservation.

A white rhino born last month at San Diego Zoo Safari Park has been named Future for what the calf represents to rhino conservation worldwide, officials said. The baby is bonding with her mother and frolicking in a maternity yard left wet by recent storms. “Future’s new favorite thing is mud,” zookeeper Marco Zeno said. “She sees a puddle...

Straight out of a horror movie – a frenzy of sharks swarms the shores of San Diego? Not quite. But dozens of usually-harmless leopard sharks returned to La Jolla’s coast just in time for Halloween.

Several spots, including San Diego Zoo and San Diego Zoo Safari Park, will waive admission for children, all month long.