As part of Orangutan Awareness Week, we celebrate Orange is for Orangutan Day, when everyone should wear orange to show your support of saving orangutans! You can make a difference as well by being a conscientious consumer and making orangutan-friendly choices, such as using

“Cat got your tongue?!” 📷: Steve Franks #sfzoo #tongueouttuesday #snowleopard

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Meet our new COO and interim co-CEO, Cassandra Costello, in today’s @sfchronicle. Born and raised in San Francisco, SF Zoo has been a part of her life and of her children, for as long as she can remember. Her positive energy is infectious! https://t.co/CZQ2994K1r

Even if you have a lot to do, it’s ok to take a break.

Be the Star of Every Christmas Gathering! Transform into the most festive version of yourself with our Original Design Festive Christmas Antler Hat! Perfect for lighting up holiday parties, family photos, and spreading cheer everywhere you go! Order now👇

In a contest between who can stare the longest, Jinx might have you beat.   Happy Caturday   📷: Steve Franks

Foggy Friday.

One of our most popular habitats is Penguin Island, and you can view our Magellanic penguins being fed twice daily. Penguins are fed by hand to ensure each individual receives their daily diet plus vitamin supplements, and in some cases, medication. You can find animal

SF Zoo will open at 11 a.m. on Wednesday, November 3. Nov. 3 is also a Free Day for San Francisco residents. Visitors must show a valid I.D. with residential address.

Jade, our female giant anteater, recently received a routine wellness exam from our animal care and veterinary teams. These regular checkups help ensure that animals like Jade stay healthy and thriving. During her visit, veterinarians performed a full physical exam, checking

A sunny day, lots of surprises, and more for Cecil the silverback’s 27th birthday! 📷: Andrew Nesheiwat

Thank you to the over 1,500 participants who joined us for today’s Breakthrough T1D Walk, raising awareness, advocacy and support. You guys helped make a difference!

With the end of Daylight Savings Time, it’s time to fall back! Please note that our operating hours will change to 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., starting on Monday, November 3. 📷: Justin Guiel

Enjoy the natural sounds of black rhino Boone enjoying his pumpkin treat! 🔊

We needed to sneak in a few more of these fun Halloween enrichment presentations, so bear with us! We couldn’t leave out Little Mebo!

Happy Halloween!   Our black bears, Valdez and Juneau, got batty with their special pumpkins with bat wings! As they are getting ready for their annual torpor, where they conserve energy during the winter months, eating pumpkins are a good way to pack on the calories!

Happy World Lemur Day! In honor of World Lemur Day today, we are hosting a special keeper talk and will have a pop-up conservation table stationed at the Lipman Family Lemur Forest where you can learn all things lemur. Be sure to stop by (and since it’s Halloween, perhaps your

More pumpkin fun!   It doesn’t take a lot to get our wolverines into a playful mood. Their caretakers set up a pile of ice, whole coconuts and carved pumpkins as Halloween enrichment, and they went to town! Enjoy the chaos!

One of the special activities that takes place during Boo at the Zoo is Frankenstein’s Feast, where guests who arrive early at the Family Farm each day are chosen to help build pumpkin enrichment for domestic breeds, like goats and sheep!   And once the enrichment was completed,

Zoo animals from around the Zoo took part of our annual Halloween treat presentations during Boo at the Zoo, and we’ll be sharing some of the highlights until Halloween!   Here, our Chacoan peccaries appeared so excited when they came upon their Halloween display, that they were