Arts & Entertainment S.F. Zoo's Holiday Forecast: Adorable With A Chance Of Baby Wallaby It's been a banner year for the San Francisco Zoo. First Jillian the tiger cub pounced into our lives, then all 5-feet and 10-inches of Erin the giraffe swept us off our feet.
SF News Banana Sam, World-Famous SF Zoo Monkey, Died We have some horrible news for you, folks. Banana Sam, the 19-year-old world-famous squirrel monkey who was kidnapped in 2011, died on Thursday. He was 19. Via SF Zoo's press release: With great
Arts & Entertainment This Is Just A Picture Of S.F. Zoo's Baby Gorilla Posing With A Pumpkin And she is one camera-ready gorilla, folks. (Also, she doesn't have a name yet. Help her out, won't you?)
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 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 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 It's Friday: Here's Video Of A Baby Giraffe Stretching Her Legs It's gorgeous outside, what are you still doing in the office? Probably feeling cooped up, wishing you had your very own African Savanna to run around in. That's what. Here's video of our
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 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 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
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 Fleishhacker Pool House Next To SF Zoo On Fire [Updated] A two-alarm fire broke out at the Fleishhacker pool house next the San Francisco Zoo parking lot on Saturday afternoon. Firefighters have ordered and evacuation around the area (though we're being told that,
Arts & Entertainment Checking In With The San Francisco Giants Rally Monkey While "Rally Zito" has been a popular topic on Twitter today as the San Francisco Giants look to stay alive in the NLCS, we here at SFist would like to put a little
Arts & Entertainment Photo: Alligator Loves Turtle Photo: SF Zoo, via Marianne Hale And now, for your late afternoon moment of awwww, we give you an alligator's affection for a turtle, care of the folks at the San Francisco Zoo.
Arts & Entertainment Go Do This Thing Tonight: Drink & Dance With Animals At The S.F. Zoo Nightlife events at normally sober venues are all the rage these days, but tonight's Noc'tails Silent Disco Party at the San Francisco Zoo is the first where attendees can party down with other
Arts & Entertainment S.F. Zoo's Baby Wallaby Experiences Marsupial Emancipation Did you know the San Francisco Zoo has a new baby wallaby? It's not exactly new — the little joey was born back in September of last year, but only last week managed to
SF News SF Zoo's Black Rhino, Gene, Dies Gene, a 41-year-old Kenya native who emigrated to San Francisco in 1978, passed away at the San Francisco Zoo, The Chronicle reports. Gene's health had been slowly deteriorating in the past few months
SF News Banana Sam Returns to Entertaining Zoo-goers A lighter piece of news from Saturday: 17-year-old world-famous squirrel monkey, Banana Sam was returned to his cage Saturday after a month of quarantine, and most of his cage-mates left him alone and
SF News Zoo Officials Suspect Monkey Business In Banana Sam's Return In the ongoing coverage of San Francisco's favorite prodigal primate, ABC7 reports that some Zoo officials are skeptical of his alibi. Sam, you'll recall, was reportedly found in the bushes at Stern Grove
SF News Banana Sam Returned, Slightly Shaken, to San Francisco Zoo! Abducted squirrel monkey and Twitter sensation Banana Sam has been returned, only slightly worse for wear, to the San Francisco Zoo. The 17-year-old, 2-pound monkey was found Saturday evening by someone in Stern
SF News Banana-Sam, Missing S.F. Zoo Squirrel Monkey, Is Now Tweeting His Adventures The story of Banana-Sam, the Squirrel Monkey reported missing from the San Francisco Zoo earlier today, seems to have taken the city by storm on this slow news day. Like any good viral
SF News Squirrel Monkey Stolen From SF Zoo The San Francisco is asking for the public's help to retrieve a reportedly stolen squirrel monkey. "This morning zoo staff discovered a 17-year-old male squirrel monkey, 'Banana-Sam,' was missing from an exhibit
Arts & Entertainment Scene From SF Zoo Snow Day Featuring Adorable Polar Bear One of the universe's depressing cruelties (besides genocide, rape, hunger, et al.) is that one can neither nuzzle with nor scratch the belly of a giant bear. Because said giant bear will probably
Arts & Entertainment Beasts Feast At SF Zoo Would you look at this little rapscallion? Come now. It's simply too much. We love it. This ring-tailed lemur enjoyed a Thanksgiving feast at the San Francisco Zoo today as part of the
