SANTA BARBARA, Calif. – The Santa Barbara Zoo welcomed its newest addition, Raj the red panda, into his habitat on Thursday afternoon. Raj came to the Zoo in April from the Millbrook School's Trevor ...

Can the world's largest rodent be cute? Two young capybaras who recently arrived at the Santa Barbara Zoo indicate the answer is yes. The brother and sister were born at Alabama's Montgomery Zoo in ...

SANTA BARBARA, Calif. – The Santa Barbara Zoo's very first zoo director, Edward "Ted" McToldridge, has died at 92 years old, leaving behind a legacy of decades of work shaping the Santa Barbara Zoo.

The Santa Barbara Zoo is debuting a new seasonal tradition, ZooLights. ZooLights transforms the zoo into a winter wonderland with larger-than-life-size animal and wildlife installations that will ...

The new condors will be joining the existing birds in the Santa Barbara Zoo exhibit, seen here, later this month. Credit: Santa Barbara Zoo photo The Santa Barbara Zoo welcomed two new California ...

For the first time in 20 years, an Amur leopard is set to give birth at the Santa Barbara Zoo. The zoo’s animal care and health team has confirmed that Ajax, the zoo’s female Amur leopard, is pregnant ...

The Santa Barbara Zoo is welcoming a baby Amur leopard cub to its animal family. On Aug. 6 at 4:05 a.m., the Santa Barbara Zoo's leopard Ajax gave birth to her first cub. The cub weighed 1.1 lbs. when ...

The Santa Barbara Zoo announces the retirement of its longtime Zoo Director, Nancy McToldridge, at the end of September. McToldridge has called the Santa Barbara Zoo home since 1982 when she began her ...

Press releases are posted on Independent.com as a free community service. (July 6, 2022) Santa Barbara, CA — The Santa Barbara Zoo is pleased to announce Melissa Walker as its new Director of ...

A popular Masai giraffe named Michael was euthanized Wednesday at the Santa Barbara Zoo after his health declined from a form of arthritis, according to zoo officials. Michael lived at the zoo for ...