Santa Barbara Zoo is hosting its annual Snow Leopard Festival this February with its new resident, Layan, who arrived in ...

Winter weather will make an unexpected appearance at the Santa Barbara Zoo, with 80 tons of snow transforming the grounds ...

Layan, a 9-year-old snow leopard at the Santa Barbara Zoo, is quickly winning over young visitors. He arrived from the ...

The Santa Barbara Zoo is now home to a new snow leopard, a nine-year-old male named Layan. Layan comes from the Idaho Falls Zoo under the guidance of the Species Survival Plan, which zoo officials ...

ZooLights returned to the Santa Barbara Zoo for its fourth spectacular run on November 12, 2025 through January 11, 2026, ...

THOSE REGAL RED-TILED ROOFS... lend Santa Barbara much of their visual flair, but if you had to land on another hue that adds oomph to the American Riviera, you just might alight upon "blue," the ...

SANTA BARBARA, Calif.—Jane Goodall was an animal advocate most famous for her work with chimpanzees. She didn’t just talk to chimps. She understood them better than most, revolutionizing the way ...

The Santa Barbara Zoo is bringing back its famous Halloween celebration, Boo at the Zoo, for six days from Oct. 17-19 and 24-26, from 5-8 p.m.

TAKING A DEEP OCEAN DIP, the sort of soggy and submerge-tastic experience that puts us among the sharks and seahorses of the Pacific? We dream of such a damp day, but a dream it must remain: Plumbing ...

The Santa Barbara Zoo has become the first zoo on the West Coast -- and the second in the world -- to become a Certified Autism Center by the International Board of Credentialing and Continuing ...

Beaches, cool boutique shops, historical attractions and wine tasting are some of the things to do in Santa Barbara, ...

Layan explores his new habitat at the Santa Barbara Zoo. (Courtesy photo) Just in time for the holidays, the Santa Barbara Zoo is welcoming its coolest new resident, Layan (pronounced LAY-in), a ...