Butterflies arrive at San Diego Zoo’s Safari Park

By City News Service, on March 1, 2013, at 12:23 am
Monarch butterfly (Kenneth Dwain Harrelson/Wikimedia)

The San Diego Zoo’s Safari Park received its first shipment of 500 butterfly pupae from Costa Rica Thursday, in preparation [...] Read More

Maimed man from Zimbabwe in So Cal for reconstructive surgeries

By City News Service, on February 28, 2013, at 9:22 am
Blessing Makwera from Zimbabwe, Africa-prior to surgery

A 20-year-old man who lost his jaw, teeth and tongue in an explosion in his native Zimbabwe five years ago [...] Read More

San Diego Zoo: Ailing elephant calf to have tusk removed

By City News Service, on January 31, 2013, at 7:19 pm
San Diego Zoo (Flickr: Conspiracy of Happiness)

An elephant calf at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park needs to have a tusk removed because of infection after [...] Read More

UCLA football team arrives in San Diego today, gearing up for Holiday Bowl

By City News Service, on December 21, 2012, at 8:41 am
UCLA football

The UCLA football team is scheduled to arrive in San Diego today for a series of events leading up to Thursday’s [...] Read More

San Diego Zoo: Panda cub has some growing to do

By City News Service, on December 18, 2012, at 3:30 pm
Baby steps for San Diego Zoo's giant panda cub (Credit: San Diego Zoo)

The giant panda cub at the San Diego Zoo needs to get a little stronger and learn to follow his [...] Read More

SeaWorld and San Diego Zoo veterinarian found dead in burning car in Tucson

By City News Service, on November 15, 2012, at 10:21 am

Friends and family today mourned the death of a prominent veterinarian from San Diego known for his work with the San [...] Read More

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