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Update: Ozzy is 6 weeks old! Time flies when you're a baby rhino! Ozzy is already six weeks old and ready to take on the world. "While Ozzy is slowly becoming more...
Safari west has a new and exciting partnership to share with you! We have partnered with Zoolife, the world’s first online zoo, to show a livestream of our giraffe tower...
When walking through the massive aviary at the heart of Safari West, if you’re very lucky you may catch a flash of brown fur moving between patches of dense foliage....
One of my favorite parts about the field of wildlife biology is that there are basically no rules! Biologists have been trying for centuries to impose order onto the beautiful...
Thank you, Sergio and Merle, for your fantastic butterfly show at Safari West! With so many Sonoma County residents providing critical butterfly habitats, we hope our magnificent butterflies will continue to...
Meet our youngest laughing kookaburra chick, currently being hand-reared by our animal staff at Safari West. Early in the morning on July 7th, keepers found this little one in the...
On June 26, 2024, Safari West welcomed its 52nd giraffe calf, Safiri, whose name means "Journey" in Swahili. From the moment of her birth, Safiri's journey became a fight for...
Enrichment! What is it? The quick answer: novel stimulus. Behavioral enrichment comes from the understanding and acceptance that, for both pets at home and animals in zoos, these are animals that are...
In April, Safari West welcomed two new baby scimitar-horned oryx to our herd! These births come at a time when this special antelope is in the global spotlight—recent successes in...
As we celebrate the first year of Otto’s life, I can’t help but think about young rhinos across the world. It’s no secret that rhinos are struggling in the wild—rhino...