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Happy birthday to you, Raj! 🥳🎂3️⃣Raj the red panda celebrated his 3rd birthday today at the Zoo! He and Ruby the red pan...
08/07/2025

Happy birthday to you, Raj! 🥳🎂3️⃣

Raj the red panda celebrated his 3rd birthday today at the Zoo! He and Ruby the red panda had a blast opening presents full of tasty omnivore biscuits scattered around their habitat by Keepers Meghan and Nakita.

Alt-text: Pictures from Raj the red panda’s 3rd birthday party. In the first, Raj tears through some red tissue paper in a gift bag. In the second, we see a birthday banner that reads, “Happy 3rd birthday Raj!” as Ruby marches along a wooden beam in the background. Next, Raj charges headfirst (literally) into another gift bag. Finally, we get a close-up of Ruby sniffing more red tissue paper in the last photo.

The California condor is as hungry as it is industrious! 😋⚒️California condors have sharp, strong, curved beaks that the...
07/07/2025

The California condor is as hungry as it is industrious! 😋⚒️

California condors have sharp, strong, curved beaks that they use to tear flesh from carcasses. Their utilitarian beaks also help them clear off tree branches to roost in and bump rocks out of caves to make cozier nesting sites.

Alt-text: A close-up of a California condor. Its reddish-colored eye stares intently forward while we take a close look at its pointy beak.

TEEF 🦷🦷🦷 : Masai giraffe (and all species of giraffe) have 32 teeth, just like us!Alt-text: Theo the Masai giraffe shows...
06/07/2025

TEEF 🦷🦷🦷

: Masai giraffe (and all species of giraffe) have 32 teeth, just like us!

Alt-text: Theo the Masai giraffe shows his bottom teeth as he reaches over the railing of the Giraffe Deck to receive a leaf of lettuce provided by a Zoo guest.

Not a napper you want to wake up early! ⚠️🦎💤The Rio Fuerte beaded lizard is a rare breed: It’s one of the only two speci...
06/07/2025

Not a napper you want to wake up early! ⚠️🦎💤

The Rio Fuerte beaded lizard is a rare breed: It’s one of the only two species of venomous lizards in Mexico! Without searching, do you know what the other is?

Alt-text: Pictures of Rio Fuerte beaded lizard hitting the snooze button! We get closer to the scaly fellow in every slide as it keeps its eyes glued shut while lying on top of a log.

The friendliest festival in town is coming to the Zoo near you soon! 🤗🎉Join us for Kind Fest on July 25 from 4 to 8 PM! ...
05/07/2025

The friendliest festival in town is coming to the Zoo near you soon! 🤗🎉

Join us for Kind Fest on July 25 from 4 to 8 PM! We’ll be celebrating the importance of being kind to each other, animals, and the planet all evening long!

The kid-friendly festivities include bounce houses, face painting, music, games a climbing wall, and of course, animal encounters!

For tickets and more information, visit: https://www.sbzoo.org/events-calendar/event/4858867

Alt-text: Raj the red panda marches along a wooden beam towards a Kind Fest logo graphic in the bottom left corner of the frame. Ruby the red panda and a pair of Zoo guests look on in the background.

Happy 4th of July from American bald eagles Avalon and Amelia! 🇺🇸🌭🦅According to US law, releasable bald eagles are not p...
04/07/2025

Happy 4th of July from American bald eagles Avalon and Amelia! 🇺🇸🌭🦅

According to US law, releasable bald eagles are not permitted to live in zoos. Unfortunately, Avalon and Amelia both came to the Santa Barbara Zoo after sustaining wing injuries that left them unable to survive in the wild.

They now serve as ambassadors for their species and are living proof of the impact of conservation work. Bald eagles nearly went extinct due to DDT poisoning in 1963 when their numbers dropped below 500 individuals remaining. Thanks to conservation efforts, they’ve returned to abundance and are now listed as a species of “Least Concern” by the IUCN.

Alt-text: Photos of American bald eagles at the Zoo. In the first, Avalon leaps from one branch to another with her wings outstretched. In the second, Amelia calmly perches on a lower branch and lifts her head proudly on the 4th of July.

04/07/2025

Today is World Meerkat Day! 🌍🙌⛏️

The slender-tailed meerkat is a small species of mongoose that lives across southern Africa. They are remarkable excavators (and talented peek-a-boo players) that live in large burrow systems with many openings that allow them to escape predators or flooding easily. In fact, meerkats can use their claws to move more than 50 times their body weight in sand or dirt and up to 400 holes in a day!

The slender-tailed meerkat population is stable, and having few major threats, they are listed as a species of “Least Concern.”

Alt-text: A short reel featuring slender-tailed meerkats peeking up at our camera from within their burrows while letting out their adorable meerkat barks.

to baby baked potato Antonio’s first day in Santa Barbara! Antonio the capybara arrived at the Zoo as a pup in Februar...
03/07/2025

to baby baked potato Antonio’s first day in Santa Barbara!

Antonio the capybara arrived at the Zoo as a pup in February of 2023. He was born at the Montgomery Zoo and Mann Wildlife Learning Museum in Alabama on July 26, 2022.

Alt-text: A throwback picture of Antonio the capybara as a pup taking a sip of water from his pool on his first day on habitat in 2023.

Fruit salad, anyone? 🥗🍉🫐 Rhinoceros hornbills love to eat fruit (especially figs!). They’re also opportunistic omnivores...
03/07/2025

Fruit salad, anyone? 🥗🍉🫐

Rhinoceros hornbills love to eat fruit (especially figs!). They’re also opportunistic omnivores that will gobble up bird eggs, insects, frogs, and small reptiles given the chance.

Alt-text: Java the rhinoceros hornbill perches on a rope bridge and throws a fleshy hunk of fruit down his big beak.

PSA: The otters you see at the Zoo aren’t sea otters! 🌊🦦👀The Asian small-clawed otter is a species of river otter native...
02/07/2025

PSA: The otters you see at the Zoo aren’t sea otters! 🌊🦦👀

The Asian small-clawed otter is a species of river otter native to southeastern Asia. While well adapted to life in the waters of rivers, creeks, mountain streams, wetlands, and rice paddies, these otters spend most of their time on land.

Alt-text: An Asian small-clawed otter air-dries on a rock in its habitat at the Zoo. Its matted fur is evidence of a recent dip in its pool.

Ruby ! ♥️🐼👅Alt-text: Ruby the red panda pokes out her tongue as she peers around a branch in the first photo. In the se...
02/07/2025

Ruby ! ♥️🐼👅

Alt-text: Ruby the red panda pokes out her tongue as she peers around a branch in the first photo. In the second, she locks eyes with a branch below while still bleping.

Little fox, big world! 🦊🌍 : The fennec fox is the world’s smallest fox species. The second smallest? The Santa Rosa isla...
01/07/2025

Little fox, big world! 🦊🌍

: The fennec fox is the world’s smallest fox species. The second smallest? The Santa Rosa island fox!

Alt-text: Flynn the fennec fox looks up at our camera from behind shoots of grass in the first picture. In the second, Lewis the island fox sleepily smiles at us while lounging on a platform.

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