Saiga antelope, relicts surviving from the ice age, look more like Dr. Seuss characters than real animals. The saiga’s bulbous nose—its most noticeable characteristic and the one that gives it its cartoonish appearance—has helped this creature survive in some of… read more →

January 17th is an unofficial holiday here at the Los Angeles Zoo. It is Betty White’s birthday! To help celebrate, here are a collection of some of our favorite pictures of Betty and her favorite animals. From all of us… read more →

Good things come to those who wait, and in June of last year, animal transactions that Curator of Amphibians and Reptiles Ian Recchio had been planning since 2010, when the Zoo’s Komodo dragons Buru and Lima produced their first clutch of eggs, began to come through. read more →

Zoo photographer Jamie Pham captured this stunning photo of one of our East African Gray-Crowned cranes. read more →

For the past 25 years, animal keepers across the U.S. have donated their time to hold Bowling for Rhinos (BFR) fundraisers, which have generated more than $5 million for rhino conservation. Los Angeles keepers have participated in this event for six years now, and in that time we have raised $217,000—more than twice the amount of the next closest chapter over the same period. As a result of this success, I was lucky enough to be awarded an honorary trip to Kenya to visit our primary beneficiary, the Lewa Wildlife Conservancy. read more →