Los Angeles Zoo

The Los Angeles Zoo and Botanical Gardens is bringing awareness to the Endangered Species Act with cute animal pictures.

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The number of okapis at the Los Angeles Zoo now stands at four, with the birth of a female calf of the unique species nicknamed the “forest giraffe,” it was announced Tuesday.

The Los Angeles Zoo has a new elephant — a lonely pachyderm from Fresno.

A California mountain lion placed under a death sentence for killing nearly a dozen alpacas owned by a Malibu woman was granted a reprieve when the woman announced she wouldn’t act on a state-issued permit giving her the right to kill the animal.

A koala in a Los Angeles Zoo enclosure was mauled to death, and the beloved mountain lion P-22 is believed to be the animal responsible, the zoo said Wednesday.

An animal-rights group announced Wednesday it has lodged a federal complaint saying that a recently opened hippopotamus attraction at the Los Angeles Zoo violates federal law by allowing visitors to come into contact with a hippo family.

A groundskeeper at the Los Angeles Zoo was rescued by firefighters after losing his footing and falling into a gorilla enclosure Thursday morning, officials said.

The Los Angeles Zoo is asking the public to “meet its babies” and name its newest little one, a western gray kangaroo baby.