Santa Barbara Zoo is hosting its annual Snow Leopard Festival this February with its new resident, Layan, who arrived in ...

Geckos and iguanas and pythons, oh my! The Santa Barbara Zoo is opening a new space this week dedicated to tropical creatures from all around called Tropical Wonders. Tropical Wonders features 15 ...

REVEALING AN "ECOLOGICAL STORY": The zoo shares that while the animals featured in Tropical Wonders were chosen for their "uniqueness and beauty," they also are part of the larger "ecological story," ...

The Santa Barbara Zoo has two new residents hanging out in its rainforest canopy: Chanee and Mel, a pair of endangered white-handed gibbons. Gibbons are small apes with long arms that allow them to ...

Winter weather will make an unexpected appearance at the Santa Barbara Zoo, with 80 tons of snow transforming the grounds ...

The Santa Barbara Zoo is now home to a new snow leopard, a nine-year-old male named Layan. Layan comes from the Idaho Falls Zoo under the guidance of the Species Survival Plan, which zoo officials ...

THOSE REGAL RED-TILED ROOFS... lend Santa Barbara much of their visual flair, but if you had to land on another hue that adds oomph to the American Riviera, you just might alight upon "blue," the ...

SANTA BARBARA, Calif.—Jane Goodall was an animal advocate most famous for her work with chimpanzees. She didn’t just talk to chimps. She understood them better than most, revolutionizing the way ...

Southern California's Santa Barbara offers a quick getaway, located about 100 miles almost due west of Los Angeles. I ...

On August 23, 700 spirited Santa Barbara Zoo supporters celebrated the cosmos and the Zoo at an Out of This World-themed Zoofari Ball. The annual mega fundraiser, held on the Zoo’s scenic hilltop, ...