Arts & Entertainment Photos: Twin Baby Giraffes Born at San Francisco Zoo, One Survives Last week the San Francisco Zoo welcomed a rare occurrence the live birth of twin reticulated giraffes in captivity which turned into a bittersweet event after one of the two twins died two
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Tenzing The Red Panda Is Better At Somersaults Than You Our obsession with Tenzing, the SF Zoo's red panda, is well documented. But, until now, we assumed that the majority of his energy went towards 1) looking cute and 2) eating
Arts & Entertainment Two Wolverines Coming To San Francisco Zoo It looks like a cuddly bear, but don't be tempted to hug and kiss the two new North American wolverines that arrive at the San Francisco Zoo on Friday, July 18.
Arts & Entertainment SF Zoo Animals Dominate Your Television Tonight Set your DVR, or fire up your internet streaming machines, or whatever else it is you do to consume televised content: tonight not just one, but two of the SF Zoo's
Arts & Entertainment And That Was The Day The SF Zoo's Baby Giraffe Played With A Zebra We thought this video of the SF Zoo's baby giraffe running around was pretty cute, but that was before we saw these photos of her playing with a zebra. On Wednesday,
Arts & Entertainment Animal Roundup: Baby Giraffe, Ailing K9, Incredibly Old Raccoon A 6’3” Tall, 160-170 Pound Baby The SF Zoo announced this week that one of their tower of reticulated giraffes (that's really what you call a group of giraffes,
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
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
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'
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&
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
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
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
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.
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
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
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!
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
