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"Those of us who know and love him, including our Oakland Zoo community, will miss him terribly," said Colleen Kinzley, the Zoo's VP of Animal Care, Conservation and Research Oakland Zoo/Facebook ...
The Oakland Zoo said Tuesday it will move its 30-year-old African elephant, Osh, to The Elephant Sanctuary in Tennessee this fall, leaving the zoo without any elephants for the first time in 75 years.
The zoo's multi-year plan focuses on three specific pillars: species and habitat protection, wildlife trade mitigation, and human-wildlife coexistence. The Oakland Zoo will announce its first ...
NPR's Scott Simon speaks with Alex Herman, vice president of veterinary services at the Oakland Zoo, about two orphaned mountain lion cubs that the zoo recently helped rescue. Holly and Hazel ...
Oakland Zoo officials have rescued an 8-month-old tiger cub from a private facility where the cat was found with at least 10 bone fractures, caused by a poor diet. The zoo, which worked with the ...