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Watch live cameras of various animals at the San Diego Zoo, from fishing cats and polar bears to sugar gliders and tree pangolins.
San Diego Zoo Animals & Plants. Main menu. Home; Animals. Amphibians; Arthropods; Birds; Fish; Mammals
At Elephant Odyssey, you can experience the world’s largest land mammal! Elephants spend up to 16 hours per day eating and can eat as much as 330 pounds of food in one day—so you’re likely to see them munching on something. African elephants are grazer-browsers and eat a variety of vegetation, including grasses, leaves, shrubs, bark, and ...
The San Diego Zoo has had a love affair with giant pandas ever since two of the black-and-white bears came to visit in 1987 for 100 days. After years of red tape and tons of application paperwork, the Zoo and China agreed on a 12-year research loan of two giant pandas, Bai Yun and Shi Shi, who arrived at the Zoo in 1996.
Mammals are vertebrate animals that are endothermic, have hair on their bodies, and produce milk to feed their babies. Many mammals give birth to live young that are small and helpless. Producing milk to feed them allows them to develop more slowly and spend time with the adults as they grow up, learning the skills they need to survive.
When the San Diego Zoo received its first polar bear in the summer of 1917, the bear was displayed in a cage, as was typical of zoos of that era. A gift from Ellen Browning Scripps launched construction of some of the world’s first barless habitats, and by 1926, a new polar bear grotto was complete. The habitat’s revolutionary design ...
At A Glance. We never tire of talking about koalas at the San Diego Zoo, ever since we welcomed our first pair, Snugglepot and Cuddlepie, back in 1925. Since then, we have become famous for having the largest koala colony as well as the most successful koala breeding program outside of Australia. Our koalas can be seen from walkways around a ...
