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"Those of us who know and love him, including our Oakland Zoo community, will miss him terribly," said Colleen Kinzley, the Zoo's VP of Animal Care, Conservation and Research Oakland Zoo/Facebook ...
The Oakland Zoo said Tuesday it will move its 30-year-old African elephant, Osh, to The Elephant Sanctuary in Tennessee this fall, leaving the zoo without any elephants for the first time in 75 years.
The Oakland Zoo threw a goodbye party for Osh the elephant on Saturday afternoon. Osh, 30, is the zoo’s last remaining elephant but will soon be sent to Tennessee’s Elephant Sanctuary ...
The zoo's multi-year plan focuses on three specific pillars: species and habitat protection, wildlife trade mitigation, and human-wildlife coexistence. The Oakland Zoo will announce its first ...
OAKLAND, Calif. - The Oakland Zoo on Thursday asked for the public to vote on a name for a new male giraffe that recently arrived at the zoo. The 13-month-old and 10-foot-tall giraffe came from ...
Oakland Zoo officials have rescued an 8-month-old tiger cub from a private facility where the cat was found with at least 10 bone fractures, caused by a poor diet. The zoo, which worked with the ...
The mountain lion sustained a bullet wound in its torso, and once wildlife officers were able to successfully tranquilize the animal with a jab stick, it was transported to the Oakland Zoo’s ...