Whitney Duncan Megan Orloff Four new members have joined the Board of Directors: Whitney Duncan, Jack Martin, Christopher O’Connor, and ...

The Santa Barbara Zoo is now home to a new snow leopard, a nine-year-old male named Layan. Layan comes from the Idaho Falls Zoo under the guidance of the Species Survival Plan, which zoo officials ...

After almost seven months of being gibbon-less, Oakland Zoo has welcomed two white-handed gibbons, 8-year-old Mei and her new mate, 5-year-old Rainer. The zoo’s lone (and lonely) white-handed gibbon, ...

The Santa Barbara Zoo is bringing back its famous Halloween celebration, Boo at the Zoo, for six days from Oct. 17-19 and 24-26, from 5-8 p.m.

THOSE REGAL RED-TILED ROOFS... lend Santa Barbara much of their visual flair, but if you had to land on another hue that adds oomph to the American Riviera, you just might alight upon "blue," the ...

SANTA BARBARA, Calif.—Jane Goodall was an animal advocate most famous for her work with chimpanzees. She didn’t just talk to chimps. She understood them better than most, revolutionizing the way ...

Just in time for the holidays, a new feline has landed at the Santa Barbara Zoo. Layan (pronounced LAY-in), a 9-year-old male snow leopard, has arrived from the Idaho Falls Zoo. The arrival is part of ...

TAKING A DEEP OCEAN DIP, the sort of soggy and submerge-tastic experience that puts us among the sharks and seahorses of the Pacific? We dream of such a damp day, but a dream it must remain: Plumbing ...

The Santa Barbara Zoo has become the first zoo on the West Coast -- and the second in the world -- to become a Certified Autism Center by the International Board of Credentialing and Continuing ...

Layan explores his new habitat at the Santa Barbara Zoo. (Courtesy photo) Just in time for the holidays, the Santa Barbara Zoo is welcoming its coolest new resident, Layan (pronounced LAY-in), a ...