For most pet primates in the United States, life is marked by chronic stress, malnutrition and illness — if they survive at ...

Visitors watch Osh the elephant at the Oakland Zoo on Sunday, Aug. 11, 2024, in Oakland, Calif. Osh, the lone elephant remaining from a once thriving group of four at the Oakland Zoo, ...

OAKLAND — A Bay Area zoo is inoculating its big cats, bears and ferrets against COVID-19 as part of a national effort to protect animal species using an experimental vaccine.

The Oakland Zoo could close for good if it isn't permitted to reopen this month, according to Dr. Joel Parrott, the zoo’s president and CEO.

The Oakland Zoo has begun a vaccination program to inoculate its highest risk animals from COVID-19 with an experimental vaccine that has been authorized by the United States Department of ...

The Oakland Zoo will care for the two orphaned mountain lions until they are healthy enough to move to a permanent home, such as a wildlife habitat.

OAKLAND — An endangered hooded vulture escaped from the Oakland zoo aviary that was destroyed after a massive tree fell on it during a storm. But the bird has remained on zoo grounds, and ...

The Oakland Zoo and its staff are excited about the latest bundle of joy to join them, a giraffe named Nuru, and they're hoping visitors will be as well after meeting him.

Oakland Zoo announced for the first time in 75 years that the facility will no longer have elephants on the premises and is moving African elephant Osh to The Elephant Sanctuary in Tennessee.

OAKLAND, Calif. - The meerkat mob at the Oakland Zoo just got bigger. One of the zoo's slender-tailed meerkats, named Sandy, recently gave birth to a litter with five pups, the zoo said Wednesday.

Want to feel like a meerkat? Crawl through a tunnel at the Oakland Zoo and end up face-to-face with a creature that looks like Timon from "The Lion King." Perhaps you empathize more with apes. Sit ...