Arts & Entertainment Oakland Zoo In Danger Of Closing As Lockdown Orders Linger The Oakland Zoo says its finances are looking grimmer as it hemorrhages $2 million per month during the continuing lockdown for zoos in the Bay Area.
Arts & Entertainment Oakland Zoo's Oldest Elephant Collapses and Dies Unexpectedly at Age 50 M'Dundamella, the eldest of the elephants at the Oakland Zoo and a resident there since 1993, collapsed inside her 6.5-acre habitat and was pronounced dead Tuesday afternoon of unknown causes. She had just turned 50 years old in September.
Arts & Entertainment Oakland Zoo Bids Farewell To Leonard, Its Beloved 19-Year-Old African Lion Zookeepers at the Oakland Zoo and fans among zoo-goers are mourning the loss of the zoo's senior lion, Leonard, who had to be euthanized on Sunday. He was 19, and had been suffering from kidney trouble and arthritis.
SF News Imaginative 911 Callers Mistake 'Enormous' Raccoon For Kangaroo Multiple 911 callers summoned the California Highway Patrol to an Oakland-area freeway Wednesday on reports of at least two dead kangaroos, but responding officers found that the deceased animals were far less exotic
Arts & Entertainment Video: Monkeys, Bears, Otters Play With Ice To Cool Down At Oakland Zoo During this week's heat, over at the Oakland Zoo, some of the animals got treated to some ice to frolic in and play with (and eat), including a mother black bear and her
Arts & Entertainment Video: Baby Wallaroo Being Hand-Raised By Oakland Zoo After Mother Dies Prepare for major feels: When this baby wallaroo's mother passed away, Oakland Zookeepers stepped in.more: https://t.co/jsQ0ILGE7Q pic.twitter.com/tmecIEts7q— Oakland Zoo (@oakzoo) March 15, 2017 After a five-month-old
SF News Oakland Shooter Killed In Police Standoff Had Terrorized Area With Gunfire 'For A Week' But Wasn't Arrested A 32-year-old East Oakland man who can be seen in ABC7 helicopter video footage stalking his neighborhood with a rifle and vandalizing a garage and a car had provided ample warning to police
Arts & Entertainment Video: Adorable Baby Baboon Frolics At Oakland Zoo Oakland Zoo added a new member to its baboon troop earlier this year with the birth of Zachary. According to the zoo's Facebook page, Zachary was born April 22 and brings the troop
SF News Video: Baby Otters Frolic At Oakland Zoo For your daily dose of cute, look no further than the Oakland Zoo — which just this morning released new video of the six, six-week-old otter pups now in the zoo's care. Bay City
Arts & Entertainment Oakland Zoo Trying To Get Adorable, Rare Blue-Eyed Lemurs To Mate Meet Dern. She's a rare blue-eyed lemur who recently arrived at the Oakland Zoo from Waco, Texas, and she joins Oakland's other blue-eyed lemur resident, Anthony. The zoo is hoping the two are
SF News East Bay Currently Experiencing A Rabid Bat Problem Alameda County health officials issued a warning Tuesday for Oakland residents to be on the lookout for rabid animals in the area near the Oakland Zoo after a teenage girl volunteer was bitten
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
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 Oakland Zoo Gets Surprise, Anonymous $1 Million Gift Just in time for Christmas, the Oakland Zoo just got an anonymous $1 million donation. The gift was given through the San Francisco Foundation under the condition that the donor not be revealed,
Arts & Entertainment Photos: Oakland Zoo's Overwhelmingly Adorable Baby Otters This is almost too much to take: Etu, Takoda and Rose, the one-month old baby otters at the Oakland Zoo, received a veterinary check up on Thursday. And just look at them. Look
misc Christmas Eve Palate Cleanser: Chimps Get Xmas Presents The chimps at the Oakland Zoo got to open their Christmas presents early this year, and even though this is just a baldfaced publicity stunt, we really want to see them get in
SF News Day Around The Bay --What with all the excitement about the arrest warrant for Ed Jew, we didn't get a chance to tell you about how just about 50 miles away, the Santa Clara DA's office had
SF News SFist checks out the 510: The One City, One Book Edition Or maybe we'll just head back into the bookstore for a copy of Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni's The Mistress of Spices. It's the inaugural selection for Oakland's "One City, One Book" campaign. Oakland Library
misc Where's Our Butterstick? We want a panda! We want a panda! Our cries to Gavin to pick us up one when he was in China went unheeded -- and now we've been stymied again! Oakland City
misc Do Think Of An Elephant ... because how could you not with a picture this cute? Elephant with a pumpkin! Ha! The Oakland Zoo held its annual Thanksgiving Leftover Pumpkin feeding for the animals in residence yesterday. We can
misc The New Silver and Black Look, Jen, look! Oakland city council member Henry Chang (at left) announced yesterday that, after six years of wheedling, the Bay Area is officially getting a pair of pandas for the Oakland Zoo.
SF News Oakland Panda-ring to China Chang has just returned from a trip to Chengdu, Sichuan province, where he traveled with representatives from architecture firm Y.H. Lee Associates - who were there to examine the local panda research
misc Someone told me it's all happening at the zoo SFist has had zoos on the brain lately. We're three-fourths of the way through A Carnivore's Inquiry, where in which the heroine (or is she an anti-heroine? We haven't finished the book yet,
