The San Diego Zoo’s animal care staff is celebrating the arrival of two new African penguin chicks at the Dan and Vi McKinney Penguin Habitat, located inside Conrad Prebys’ Africa Rocks.

San Diego Zoo Global Press is proud to announce that Ruuxa & Raina: A Cheetah and Dog’s True Story of Friendship and Miracles, and Karen’s Heart: The True Story of a Brave Baby Orangutan by Georgeanne Irvine, won the 31^st Annual IBPA Benjamin Franklin Award™ for best nonfiction children’s books in the Young Reader:

San Diego Zoo Global is making a big splash for World Penguin Day (April 25, 2019), with the release of a trailer for its first-ever “reality television”-style web series, “Penguin Beach.”

This week, 100Kin10—a national network with a goal of training and retaining 100,000 excellent K–12 science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) teachers by 2021—announced a key milestone during the organization’s annual partner summit at the San Diego Zoo:

Chimpanzees are well known for their extraordinary diversity of behaviors—including using tools for hunting or digging, cracking nuts with stones and using moss as a water-drawing sponge—with some behaviors also exhibiting cultural variation.