The San Francisco Zoo's Avian Conservation Center, home of the Bald Eagle Recovery Project, is the only large-scale captive breeding program for bald eagles in the Western United States. Since 1991, 36 chicks have been hatched from eggs brought from nests on Catalina or breeding pairs at the zoo. read more
They can't fly, they don't live at the North Pole and there isn't a Rudolph in the bunch. It doesn't matter. The four reindeer that showed up at the San Francisco Zoo on Saturday just have to be themselves -- because hardly anyone believes that they actually exist. "Most people think they're a storybook character," said their owner, Cindy Gillaspie. read more