San Francisco Zoo

About the same time the governor was announcing closures to portions of the states’ zoos, San Francisco’s Zoo was reopening for the first time in months. Zoo officials said they don’t believe the governor’s order — affecting inside areas — impacts them. So as NBC Bay Area’s Joe Rosato Jr. shows us, they’re moving ahead with reopening...

The San Francisco Zoo and Gardens will be able to reopen on Monday, while the reopening of other businesses like indoor restaurants and hair salons remains on hold due to a rise in CODID-19 cases, Mayor London Breed said Friday.

San Francisco Zoo & Gardens celebrated the birthdays of the zoo’s three senior chimpanzees with a “party” put together by SF Zoo animal care staff on Tuesday.

A spike in coronavirus cases has forced San Francisco Mayor London Breed to delay the city’s plan to reopen more businesses. As a result, the San Francisco Zoo will not reopen as planned.

The San Francisco Zoo is set to reopen next week but with plenty of modifications. Joe Rosato Jr. reports.

In the months without the public on hand because of the pandemic, the animals in the San Francisco Zoo have been acting curious.  A normally nonchalant tiger ducked behind a bush as a visitor approached. Painfully shy orangutans blew kisses to their keepers. The equally shy Asian rhinoceros suddenly began following the zoo’s executive director around its pen during...

The mountain lion that was finally trapped near Oracle Park Thursday after wandering around San Francisco may have killed some animals at the zoo.

The mountain lion that was finally trapped near Oracle Park Thursday after wandering around San Francisco may have killed some animals at the zoo.

The San Francisco Zoo & Gardens said Monday that a bald eagle released into the wild two decades ago was recently photographed in the wild. The eagle was one of two female chicks placed in a wild eagle nest on Catalina Island in 2000, part of the zoo’s Bald Eagle Recovery Program. Through a partnership with the Institute for Wildlife…

Rare Twin male giraffe calves were born at the San Francisco zoo Tuesday morning, but only one survived, zoo officials said Friday.

On Saturday history will be made when the Warriors play their first game ever at the Chase Center in San Francisco – and holding her breath will be the new waterfront arena’s General Manager Kim Stone.

Officials with the San Francisco Zoo are launching “Good Neighbor Free Days” on Thursdays in September for residents from nine Bay Area counties in celebration of the zoo’s 90th anniversary.

On Monday, the 1,000th California red-legged frog raised at the San Francisco Zoo was released into Yosemite National Park as part of a program aimed at reintroducing the nearly-extinct amphibian into areas where it has not been seen for 50 years.

Brunhilda, a female American bison living in Golden Gate Park’s famous paddock, died Thursday after suffering severe kidney disease.

School may be out for the summer for children in San Francisco, but five penguin chicks at the San Francisco Zoo and Gardens just started their classes. The 2-month-old Magellanic penguins are currently attending “fish school” to learn the basics of being a zoo penguin, according to a news release from the zoo.

A well-loved resident of the San Francisco Zoo, a blind sea lion named Silent Knight, died overnight while sleeping, zoo officials said Friday.

A San Francisco cable car that was sold off in the 1950s and eventually dropped off the historical radar — has turned up for sale in an ad on Facebook in the Sacramento area.

San Francisco Zoo resident Nataani, a Navajo Churro ram, has sided with the Los Angeles Rams and predicted the Southern California team will win Super Bowl LIII in Atlanta. But its zoo-mate leopard tortoise, named Bump n’ Run, picked the New England Patriots as the winner.

The verdict is in from a contest to name a 6-month-old, 175-pound male reindeer calf visiting the San Francisco Zoo during the holidays.