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
SF News California Deer Experiencing Troublesome Hair Loss Problem In California, the local deer population is experiencing a problem most commonly associated with kindergartners: a mysterious scourge of exotic lice from Europe and Asia have been found on deer and elk from
Arts & Entertainment How Weird Street Faire Gem: Bespectacled Dog Reading We forgot to this one final gem from Sunday's How Weird Street Faire: a dog wearing glasses. Arf. Other images from the street festival here.
Arts & Entertainment Photo Du Jour: California Quail Stud Photo by andertho. He explains how he snapped this shot: Taken in Joseph D. Grant County Park, Santa Clara County, California, USA. I set up my Nikkor 40mm f/2.8 (w/ 1.
SF News Adorable Baby Falcons Hatch in San Jose Baby animals are the surest sign of spring, and the Bay Area can now add an adorable clutch of falcon hatchlings to its list of reproductive accomplishments, right after the Zoo's newest tiger
SF News S.F. Zoo Tiger Cub: It's A Girl! The San Francisco Zoo's baby tiger underwent its first veterinary examination this week, and the Zoo was finally able to announce the cub's gender: it's a girl! The Sumatran tiger cub was born
SF News BART Passenger In A Panic Over Pilfered Pomeranian A San Bruno woman is distraught after losing her 1-year-old Pomeranian named "Archie" on a BART ride home from a San Francisco SPCA event Wednesday night. Kerrin Lanahan says she accidentally fell asleep
Arts & Entertainment Meanwhile, At Justin Herman Plaza... Greenpeace crunchies inflated a giant tiger to celebrat International Day of Forests, holding a banner calling attention to one of Indonesia's most noted rainforest destroyers: "APRIL." “APRIL is Indonesia’s second largest pulp
SF News Cop Meets Dog, Dog Bites Cop, Cop Shoots Dog It's long been a personal nightmare to have that mellow-looking dog on Haight Street suddenly lunge for my throat, and it played out for one unlucky cop (and canine) yesterday afternoon. While attempting
Arts & Entertainment We Want One! Meerkat Pups Born At Oakland Zoo Three little meerkat rapscallions who are clearly up to no good -- named Ayo, Rufaro, and Nandi -- joined the Oakland Zoo meerkat mob. And just look at them. LOOK AT THEM! They're
SF News Possibly Drunk Horses Attempt To Take The Freeway Two loose horses were found on an Interstate 680 freeway onramp outside of Martinez, California after last call Sunday night. The horses were rounded up around 2 a.m. on the Pachecho off-ramp
Arts & Entertainment Video: Trannyshack Star Search Champ Rides Ejaculating Donkey Speaking of drag competitions, Sue Casa won last week's Trannyshack Star Search competition. Her performance boasts, among other things, riding a large ejaculating donkey. Also of note: flag twirling! [via Marke B. at
Arts & Entertainment Even These Penguins Got Valentines Just to rub it in, these smug bastard penguins at the California Academy of Sciences got pretty red Valentines today. And it's not even Valentine's Day yet! Whatever. We don't even want any,
Arts & Entertainment Photo: Sergio Romo Feeds Monkeys At SF Zoo Giants pitcher Sergio Romo laughs as he feeds langur monkeys at the San Francisco Zoo on Thursday. A four-month old female langur monkey, born during the Giants' National League Divisional Series against the
SF News Camel Hit On Concord Road How do you miss a camel? What's a camel doing on a Concord road? These questions and more we will provide to you in this post. See, a camel (named Rudy!) that lives
Arts & Entertainment Enormous Mammal Makes Pier 39 Pitstop A gray whale headed south on its annual sex trip to Baja Mexico made a slight detour into the San Francisco Bay yesterday, reportedly stopping off near Pier 39 to look at the
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 Photo: Hyenas Join The Oakland Zoo Family Three spotted hyenas moved into the Oakland Zoo. Here are two of them! The hyenas (two males and one female) relocated from the Berkeley Hyena Center, where they were part of a colony
SF News Meet Mr. Teeth, The Five-Foot-Long Weed Guarding Reptile Meet Mr. Teeth. As you can see, he is a rather large reptile. So what was this dinosaur doing living in Castro Valley, California? He wasn't lounging about eating chucksteaks at the zoo.
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 Video: Starling Murmuration In Downtown S.F. Our dear friends at Barbary Coast Consulting captured this mesmerizing video of a starling murmuration. What makes this video so special, compared to other murmuration videos, is that this one occurs in downtown
SF News Photo: A River Otter Runs Through It A river otter, left, eyes a bird on Thursday afternoon. For the first time in decades, according to AP, a river otter has made San Francisco its home, taking up residence in the
