Arts & Entertainment Tiger Cub Update: Jillian Is Now Bigger Than A Small Child, Still Precious Apparently worried about losing her spotlight to the San Francisco Zoo's other adorable new arrival, Jillian the tiger cub had another photo-worthy moment recently: The nearly four-month old cub got up close and
Arts & Entertainment Adorable Photos: Baby Giraffe Born At The S.F. Zoo This afternoon the San Francisco Zoo officially announced the arrival of a brand new, one-week-old giraffe calf. The calf, born to 11-year-old mother Kristin and father Floyd, entered the world early last Wednesday
Arts & Entertainment Watch These Adorable Baby Swans Grace The Palace Lagoon Our yearly obsession with swans and collective nouns continues this Spring with a new lamentation of cygnets at the Palace of Fine Arts. Blue Boy and Blanche, the two remaining adult swans, have
Arts & Entertainment Welcome To The World, Tiny Magellanic Penguin! The San Francisco Zoo's colony of Magellanic penguins got a little bit bigger last week. It's hatching season and the chicks have started cracking out of their shells like downy, fun-size version of
SF News Sick Puppy Tortures Young Pit Bull Pit bulls get a bad rap, we know, but if anyone is to blame for the breed's bad press it should be the awful human detritus and Philadelphia Eagles quarterbacks responsible for treating
Arts & Entertainment The World Is Not An Entirely Terrible Place Because The S.F. Zoo Is Free Tomorrow Look, you need a day off. You finished your taxes just in time to be caught off guard by an unthinkable tragedy that unfolded on the Internet, on TV, in phone calls from
Arts & Entertainment Gallery: We Will Not Apologize For More Photos Of The S.F. Zoo's Tiger Cub Have you gotten enough of the San Francisco Zoo's eight-week-old tiger cub yet? No, you most certainly have not. As much as we wanted to steal her and take her out for nachos,
Arts & Entertainment Video: Say Hello To Cal Academy's New African Penguin Chick Today, biologists at the California Academy of Sciences debuted an adorable new addition to their African penguin exhibit: a two-month-old male chick who just now waddled out of the private nest he has
Arts & Entertainment Dear S.F. Zoo Tiger Cub: Please Never Grow Up The San Francisco Zoo's tiger cub is still the most adorable thing in the larger Bay Area right now. While the Zoo would like to remind everyone that she now has visiting hours
Arts & Entertainment Video: S.F. Zoo's Tiger Cub Is Ambulatory, Adorable The San Francisco Zoo's absolutely precious tiger cub made her debut last weekend and boy was she cute. Like too cute. Like we want to steal her and keep her in our apartment
Arts & Entertainment Photos: This Tiger Cub Is The Cutest Thing In Sacramento Mama Sumatran tiger Bahagia, a resident of the Sacramento Zoo, gave birth a little bundle of striped joy named Castro Jr. earlier this month. C.J., as we're calling him now, won't be
Arts & Entertainment Map: San Francisco, As Seen By A Cat Local artist Wendy Macnaughton's latest work is a collaboration with author Caroline Paul and their missing cat Tibia. When Tibia went missing for five weeks, Wendy and Caroline used everything from a GPS
Arts & Entertainment Sutro Sam Hasn't Been Spotted In Weeks, Probably Moved To Oakland Sutro Sam, the young river otter who captivated a city when he first showed up in the Sutro Baths to sun himself last October, has not been spotted around his personal lap pool
SF News Little Girl Takes Sticks From Yosemite National Park, Mails Them Back Along With Adorable Letter Of Apology A little girl and Yosemite Junior Ranger named Evie apparently remorseful after removing a pair of sticks from one of the country's most iconic national parks. Park rules, as any Junior Ranger worth
Arts & Entertainment This Golden Gate Park Coyote Is All Dressed Up And Ready To Eat Your Cat Today in Outerlands nature photos: local photographer David Cruz brings us this shot of a Golden Gate Park Coyote, spotted last week all dolled up in a winter coat. We've been watching these
Arts & Entertainment Photos: Enormous Mammal Heads South On Sex Trip Today in wildlife photography, intrepid nature watcher David Cruz spotted a gray whale breaching in the waters just west of the Cliff House over the weekend. As the first significantly documented whale activity
Arts & Entertainment Adorable Local Otter Reveals Vicious Thirst For Animal Flesh When we first spotted adorable river otter Sutro Sam sunning himself at the Sutro Baths back in October our initial reaction was: awww. Followed by "I mean, that's adorable, right?" And then, a
Arts & Entertainment These Elephant Seal Pups Are Ugly As Hell, But We Love Them Anyway As your official source of all things weird-looking and adorable in the greater Bay Area, SFist feels compelled to share with you these photos of elephant seal pups spotted by ace nature photographer
Arts & Entertainment Photos: Rescued Bobcat Kitten Deemed 'Too Nice' To Live In The Wild Meet Chips, the bobcat kitten deemed "too nice" to return to the wilderness after being rescued from a 75,000-acre fire northwest of Lake Tahoe back in August. Chips was a mere three
Arts & Entertainment SFist Year in Review: The Animals We Loved in 2012 Because we are never more than a couple hundred yards from nature here in San Francisco, there seems to be no shortage of adorable creatures around town, both wild and domesticated. Unfortunately, the
Arts & Entertainment Video: S.F. Zoo Otters Frolicking In The Snow The San Francisco Zoo is running a highly effective ad campaign this holiday season. They've already won us over with penguins singing "Jingle Bells." Now they're back with this much less adorably titled
SF News Photo: Rally Monkey Romo Is Still Cute And now for a reminder that there is goodness in this world. Romo, the SF Zoo's resident black-and-orange rally monkey (arguably responsible for leading the Giants to a World Series victory), is growing
Arts & Entertainment Video: S.F. Zoo's Penguin Colony Sings 'Jingle Bells' Penguins are great, right? Not only have they proven that gay couples can successfully raise adopted babies, but they can also sing timeless Christmas Carols! Here now, a chorus of the San Francisco
Arts & Entertainment Stop What You're Doing Right Now And Watch These Puppies & Kittens In Macy's Seriously, what are you doing right now? We can almost guarantee it is not looking at the adorable puppies and kittens (available for adoption from the SF SPCA!) currently living in the holiday
Arts & Entertainment Video: This Otter Sunning Himself Will Make Your Day Suck Slightly Less Out on the Western edge of San Francisco, where bison roam and coyotes threaten the local housecat population, nature photographer David Cruz spotted this wild otter taking advantage of a sunny spot by
