wildlife

An owl is recovering in the East Bay after some quick-thinking Good Samaritans found it stuck in barbed wire.

The Humane Society of the United States has gifted the Fund for Animals Wildlife Center in Ramona to the San Diego Humane Society, the local private animal nonprofit announced Tuesday.

There are about 6,000 Cotton-Top tamarins left in the world and the species is considered critically endangered.

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.

Wildlife all over the world has adapted during the pandemic to seeing fewer people. In California, endangered sea otters have likely benefited from fewer human disturbances. But as shelter-at-home restrictions begin to relax and desperation for outdoor recreation grows, sea otters could be at risk from an influx of people.

The bear was tranquilized by animal control personnel Friday morning, a few hours after it was spotted foraging for food in a Monrovia, Calif., neighborhood