SF News Oakland Zoo Rescues Another Mountain Lion Cub, This One Found Abandoned In El Dorado County The Oakland Zoo just stepped up and rescued its 27th mountain lion, this one a four- to five-week old cub named Briar, who was found wandering motherless in El Dorado County over the weekend.
SF News The Oakland Zoo Will Soon Lose Its Last Remaining Elephant, 30-Year-Old Osh The only elephant left at the Oakland Zoo will be moving to a sanctuary in Tennessee this fall, and once the male elephant Osh is gone, there won’t be any more elephants at any zoos in the Bay Area.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Oakland Zoo Welcomes Three New Baby Bison A new French bistro has opened in the Castro’s former Catch space; Noe Valley businesses are up in arms over some upcoming street construction; and three new baby bison are now strolling with their herd at the Oakland Zoo.
SF News Naming Contest Underway for Handsome Boy Giraffe Who Just Arrived at Oakland Zoo This 13-month-old giraffe from Louisiana has a new home at the Oakland Zoo, but he doesn’t have a name yet. You can now help name the towering teen in a naming contest that runs through Monday.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Oakland Zoo Takes In Someone’s Illegally-Owned Marmoset Golden Boy Pizza is opening a new location in Parkside; the flagship Trader Vic’s in Emeryville may have to close next year; and the Oakland Zoo has taken in an illegally-owned and injured marmoset monkey.
Arts & Entertainment One of the Bay Area's Last Remaining Zoo Elephants Is Being Moved Out of State Where She'll Have More Friends After the death of her longtime friend and companion at the Oakland Zoo, 44-year-old elephant Donna is getting relocated to a new home — an elephant sanctuary where she won't be as lonely.
Arts & Entertainment Video: Oakland Zoo Recovers Five Out of Six Escaped Birds The Oakland Zoo over the weekend successfully recaptured five out of six exotic birds that escaped their damaged enclosure last week, after a big eucalyptus tree came crashing down and tore the netting.
Arts & Entertainment Oakland Zoo Sees More Storm Damage, This Time Resulting In Escaped Exotic Birds The 100-acre Oakland Zoo has taken a battering this winter. And Tuesday's storm brought down multiple trees, including one big eucalyptus that crashed into the zoo's newest aviary — and that meant some escaped birds.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Oakland Zoo Takes In Second Orphaned Mountain Lion Cub Another mountain lion cub was found abandoned near Santa Cruz and brought to the Oakland Zoo, some spots to our south saw 10 inches of rain between last night and this morning, and Mary's Pizza Shack is closing several more locations.
SF News Oakland Zoo Likely Closed For Weeks Due to Sinkhole Near Entrance With another onslaught of rain on the way that is likely to cause more of this type of damage across the region, the Oakland Zoo is facing some significant road-repair work before it can reopen to the public due to a sinkhole that formed after Saturday's storm.
SF News Video: Abandoned Mountain Lion Cub Recovering Nicely At Oakland Zoo, Where Animals Also Got Christmas Presents New videos from the Oakland Zoo show that the mountain cub hobbled by hypothermia that they took in last week is eating again and pulling a lovely recovery, while the zoo’s animals got Christmas presents to rip open, or faux gingerbread houses to play with.
SF News Orphaned Mountain Lion Cub Hobbled By Hypothermia, Taken In By Oakland Zoo There’s another mountain lion rescue and hopeful recovery underway at the Oakland Zoo, as a young mountain lion cub found abandoned in freezing temperatures is recovering at the zoo from hypothermia.
SF News Fatal Shooting of Mountain Lion Begets Social Media Spat Between Hollister PD and Oakland Zoo A Central California police department is none too happy with the Oakland Zoo over a social media post involving a mountain lion that was shot by police, leading to some Facebook drama.
Arts & Entertainment Orphaned Baby Mountain Lion Improving After Blood Transfusion at Oakland Zoo An orphaned mountain lion cub who was found in San Mateo County last week and was brought to the Oakland Zoo for care and treatment is showing marked improvement as of Thursday, following a blood transfusion.
Arts & Entertainment Oakland Zoo Rescues Two Teenage Tortoises From Oklahoma Roadside Attraction The Oakland Zoo has just welcomed a pair of Aldabra tortoises, both teenage males, and both confiscated from a roadside zoo in Oklahoma.
SF News More Animals at Oakland Zoo Have Started Receiving Modified COVID-19 Vaccines There's strong evidence to support that SARS-CoV-2 — the pathogen which causes COVID-19 — has a zoonotic source, meaning it's naturally transmissible from vertebrate animals to humans. And this is exactly why animals at the Oakland Zoo have begun getting inoculated against the disease it causes.
SF News Oakland Zoo's Great Apes To Receive Modified COVID-19 Vaccines, Among the First in the World Humans aren't the only sentient beings on this planet that are at risk of contracting COVID-19; our closest living relatives, the world's great apes, are especially prone to catching the novel disease from us.
SF News Oakland Zoo, Glowfari Have Reopened to the General Public A gentle reminder that the East Bay wildlife park began welcoming zoo visitors on February 3 and officially reopened its Glowfari festival — a wonderland of illuminated lanterns inspired by global fauna — this past Friday.
SF News San Francisco Zoo Now Open to the General Public After contending with yet another shutdown — one that dealt even more financial blows to our local zoological facilities — the San Francisco Zoo has, once again, reopened to the general public.
SF News Oakland Zoo, SF Zoo Closing Monday Due to Stay-at-Home Order Earlier in the pandemic, the Oakland Zoo and San Francisco Zoo were financially devastated after being shuttered for months — with the East Bay zoological institution at one point in danger of permanently closing. Now those same hardships could come back.
Arts & Entertainment Orphaned Mountain Lion 'Captain Cal' and Adopted Sisters Head to Columbus Zoo Three orphaned mountain lion kittens rescued during the Zogg Fire in Shasta County last month are heading to a new home in Ohio.
SF News 'Captain Cal' Meets Two Other Rescued Mountain Lion Cubs at Oakland Zoo; All Three Orphaned by Zogg Fire In an adorable moment — albeit one carrying a tinge of sorrow, given the circumstances — Oakland Zoo's rescue cougar cub, "Captain Cal,” recently got up close with two other young mountain lions (that were also orphaned by the Zogg Fire) at the zoo.
SF News Mountain Lion Cub Orphaned by Zogg Fire Being Treated at Oakland Zoo for Burns A mountain lion cub — that's likely no more than six weeks old — was recently transported to the Oakland Zoo after sustaining life-threatening burns from the Zogg Fire in Shasta County; a team of veterinarians at the zoological institution are working around the clock to treat his wounds.
Arts & Entertainment Strolls Through San Francisco and Oakland Zoos Offer Flashes of Pre-Pandemic Normalcy With zoos in San Francisco and Oakland reopened, attracting sold-out weekend crowds and droves of giddy weekday visitors, spending an afternoon mesmerized by macaws is quickly proving to be a cathartic source of familiarity for many; that's been the case for us, as well.
Arts & Entertainment Oakland Zoo Reopens To Sold-Out Crowds After pleading with public officials as its money reserves ran out, the Oakland Zoo has reopened to the public with many safety precautions in place — and it sold out its opening day tickets, and tickets for Thursday as well.
