We are committed to removing disease as a roadblock to wildlife conservation. We achieve this through comprehensive disease surveillance programs, disease outbreak investigations, and targeted disease research for all of the animals in our care, including the San Diego Zoo and Safari Park collections and our field conservation programs.
If you have ever been to the San Diego Zoo or Safari Park, you know how wonderful it is to wander the network of trails, boardwalks and bridges, encountering an array of amazing, often endangered...
Our keepers are constantly on the lookout for any abnormalities in the collections they oversee. So when a bird is sick in an aviary, they notice. Recently a couple of diamond doves (Genopelia...
I got the call from Dr. Nadine Lamberski last Saturday: “We can’t go to Africa, we’re needed here.” It was disappointing but not surprising – our top priority is...
Tortoise 5726 lives in a large patch of the Mojave Desert west of the I-15 and south of Las Vegas in Nevada. 5726 is an adult female that was released to this area from the Desert Tortoise...
If you were a virus, which one would you be? What about a herpesvirus? You can lay dormant in your favorite host and go undetected, just hiding away in a latent stage. However, if you jump into a...
