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San Diego Zoo Global recognizes the gravity of the ever-changing COVID-19 situation and are working to do our part to protect the health and welfare of our community and the wildlife in our care, the San Diego Zoo and the San Diego Zoo Safari Park will remain open with some changes in our operations.
Researchers from San Diego Zoo Global and Embryo Plus South Africa performed an ovum pick-up (OPU) procedure on Nikita, a 9-year-old female southern white rhinoceros at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park’s Nikita Kahn Rhino Rescue Center, on March 6.
Wildlife care specialists at the San Diego Zoo are providing round-the-clock specialty care to a young male koala joey who lost his mother. The joey’s mother died from cancer in mid-December, when he was about 5-and-a-half months old and was still in her pouch.