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 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.

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.

A freed California condor died of lead poisoning at the Oakland Zoo Sunday after veterinarians “did everything they could” to ...

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.

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

Oakland Zoo staff, donors and visitors are in mourning after Donna, an African Elephant held at the zoo for 33 years, died on Tuesday at a Tennessee sanctuary. Donna, who was 44 years old, died ...

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.

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.

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.

OAKLAND, CA - APRIL 6: A taxidermy hawksbill sea turtle is photographed in the “Inside the Illegal Wildlife Trade” exhibit at the Oakland Zoo, on Tuesday, April 6, 2021, in Oakland, Calif.