SAN DIEGO (FOX5/KUSI)–The San Diego Zoo welcomed a newborn female okapi calf to its Lost Forest exhibit last Tuesday. The calf was born to mom Subira and first-time dad Kapu, marking the first okapi ...

Spread the loveHave you ever heard of a shoebill? Contrary to what one might opine because of their size and their ...

Marco Wendt was 16 when he got a summer job at San Diego Zoo Safari Park, then known as the Wild Animal Park. A first-generation Mexican American, the first of his family born in the U.S., Wendt says ...

A tremor from a 5.2-magnitude earthquake that struck about 60 miles away prompted a herd of elephants at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park to form a tight circle to protect the calves. By The New York ...

On the heels of last week’s devastating loss of a beloved polar bear and giraffe, the San Diego Zoo on Tuesday announced that Maka, a 30-year-old Western lowland gorilla they called “the heart of our ...

Native Hawaiian honeycreeper birds are being wiped out by avian malaria. Scientists think they can battle the problem by ...