On November 9, the Los Angeles Zoo and Botanical Gardens will host the fourth annual Ape Awareness Day. Learn more about our primate friends with docents talks and stations throughout the zoo with crafts, an orangutan photo spot, games, trading cards, and more. more ›

Actor and animal activist Robert Culp is demanding an immediate closure of the elephant exhibit at the Los Angeles Zoo and that all work on the expansion of the elephant enclosure be halted. Billy, a 21-year-old Asian elephant, is now the zoo's only pachyderm, after the departure of Ruby last spring. more ›