Animals A-Z
Browse the full collection of animals at the San Francisco Zoo & Gardens. Filter by animal group, region, or conservation status to find the species you’re looking for.
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Use the filters to browse by animal group, region, or conservation status, or explore the full directory to discover species you may want to visit next.
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Crested oropendola
Known for weaving massive, teardrop-shaped basket nests in their native tropical forests.
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Curl-crested araçari
This unique toucan species has a distinctive crown of feathered “ringlets”
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Double-wattled cassowary
Often called “living dinosaurs,” the second-heaviest bird in the world stands 6 feet tall and can weigh up to 175 lbs.
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Grant’s zebra
As the most common and recognizable of the subspecies of plains zebras, they are knonw for their bold stripes of which no two stripe patterns are alike.
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Green-winged Macaw
This long-lived giant parrot are known for their incredibly loud screeches, helping them communicate across dense forest canopies.
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Grizzly bear
This subspecies of the brown bear is native to North America. Our pair of female siblings were orphaned as cubs and came here in 2004.
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Land hermit crab
As the hermit crab grows in size, it has to find a larger shell and abandon the previous one. This habit of living in a second hand shell gives rise to the popular name “hermit crab”, by analogy to a hermit who lives alone.
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Sacred Ibis
Revered in ancient Egypt, they play a beneficial role in their ecosystems as a scavenger and predator.
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Slender-tailed meerkat
Standing upright, meerkats can easily spot predators from atop a termite mound, using alarm calls to let their mob know of a threat.
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