Arts & Entertainment Video: Our Red Panda Hysteria Continues Apace Last week we met the San Francisco Zoo's impossibly cute Red Panda. Then we took a look at his posh treehouse abode. Now our favorite Musteloid (sorry, otters, you're yesterday's animal news) has
Arts & Entertainment We Will Not Apologize For More Photos Of The S.F. Zoo's New Red Panda Yesterday we met the San Francisco Zoo's unnamed Red Panda. We learn today that Mr. Red Panda (as we will call him until he gets an official name) has an adorably vicious thirst
Arts & Entertainment Meet The SF Zoo's New Red Panda UPDATE: More red panda pics! On Saturday, May 10th the San Francisco Zoo will welcome the newest addition to its incredibly adorable family: a 10-month-old male red panda. Naming rights will go to
Arts & Entertainment Local Tiger Cub Takes A Bubble Bath On Monday, Jillian the San Francisco Zoo's lovable tiger cub turned one whole year old. To celebrate she got a "Happy Birthday!" gift bag, some plastic toys she didn't seem to care for,
Arts & Entertainment Video: S.F. Zoo's Baby Wallaby Eats Lettuce, Is Adorable When we checked in on the San Francisco's new red-necked wallaby joey last month, the little guy or gal had not even shown its adorable little face to the public yet. And who
Arts & Entertainment Local Tiger Cub Easily Entertained It's been a couple month since we last checked in with Jillian, the San Francisco Zoo's tiger cub. Without further ado, here's video of Jillian being entertained by a simple pile of hay.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Go Do This Thing Tonight: Drinks After Dark At The S.F. Zoo While other local institutions may offer more frequent night time drinking opportunities, your chance to get drunk and dance with some big cats at the Zoo only comes once a year. Tonight: Noc'tails
Arts & Entertainment New Komodo Dragon Proves There Is Ugly Stuff At The Zoo Too When it comes to Zoo life in San Francisco we here at SFist admittedly have an adorable bias. So, in the interest of fairness to non-mammal, non-bird animals (sorry invertebrates; you're still gross)
Arts & Entertainment Watch The Miracle Of Gorilla Childbirth In This Graphic Video On July 17th, Nneka the western lowland gorilla gave birth to a baby girl at the San Francisco Zoo. Luckily for anyone interested in gorilla obstetrics, Zoo-goer and YouTuber Marwan Salfiti was there
Arts & Entertainment Watch These Penguin Chicks Waddle Their Way Into Our Hearts On Saturday, the San Francisco Zoo's new waddle of penguin chicks had a graduation of sorts. After several weeks worth of intense eating, squawking and napping at Fish School, the four girls and
Arts & Entertainment Seven Very Short Films Starring Baby Penguins As our new pals at the San Francisco zoo get closer to Fish School graduation on July 27th, local penguin whisperer/"penguinologist"/our new best friend Anthony Brown has been documenting the little
Arts & Entertainment Baby Gorilla Already Aping For The Cameras Not even two days old and San Francisco's own western lowland gorilla princess is already learning how to deal with life as one of the offspring of an incredibly important bloodline (endangered gorillas,
Arts & Entertainment Welcome To The World, San Francisco Zoo's Baby Gorilla! Cementing the San Francisco Zoo's reputation as a world-class destination for looking at baby animals, 14-year-old western lowland gorilla Nnenka brought this 5-pound, 1-ounce hairy little bundle of joy into the world Wednesday
Arts & Entertainment Photos: These Animals Are Totally In Love Today Happy DOMA-is-unconstitutional-and-gay-marriage-is-legal-in-California-again day! Because you're probably overloaded with photos of exuberant couples smooching their faces off in front of the Supreme Court or city hall or rainbow flags everywhere, here are some animals
Arts & Entertainment S.F. Zoo's Baby Giraffe Named After That Girl You Used To Know In College The San Francisco Zoo's adorable one-month-old giraffe calf finally got a name this week. Meet: Erin. Erin the giraffe. And she's gotten a bit taller since we first met her last month, she's
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 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 S.F. Zoo's Tiger Cub Named After Generous Literary Agent After a couple months of simply calling our favorite creature on the planet "the cub," San Francisco Zoo's furry little bundle of joy finally got a proper name. Behold: Jillian the three-month-old Sumatran
Arts & Entertainment Video: The S.F. Zoo's Tiger Cub Eats A Hamburger It's been a moment since we last checked in with our favorite animal on the planet, but we are happy to report that about a week or so ago, the San Francisco Zoo's
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 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 S.F. Zoo Rhinoceros Eats Baltimore Raven For Breakfast Well, sort of, anyway: This morning at the San Francisco Zoo, Boone the Black Rhino (named for Alex Boone, the white offensive lineman) devoured the Baltimore Ravens for a light morning meal. Unfortunately,
Arts & Entertainment Adorable Photos: SF Zoo's Polar Bears Frolic In Man-Made Snow The San Francisco Zoo's polar bears had a birthday surprise today—the zoo brought in 10 tons of man-made snow to celebrated Pike's 30th birthday and Ulu's 32nd birthday. Plus there were other
