San Diego Zoo

The talk of pandas came up during meetings between U.S. and Chinese advisors at the APEC Summit. Now, San Diego Zoo executives are getting ready to make room for their return. NBC 7’s Joe Little reports.

Chinese President Xi Jinping signaled late Wednesday that China will send new pandas to the United States, calling them “envoys of friendship between the Chinese and American peoples.”

San Diego Zoo Global and China began collaborating on panda research and conservation of the species in 1996, when the species was threated with extinction.

Estimates say that fewer than 200 adult mountain yellow-legged frogs remain in their native habitats.

Scientists from the San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance and Omaha’s Henry Doorly Zoo and Aquarium reintroduced more than 70 endangered mountain yellow-legged frogs into a lake located in the San Bernardino Mountains, it was announced Tuesday.

The world first met the adorable siblings at two weeks old when the San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance released a video that showed the two tiny cubs nursing from first-time mother, Diana

Two endangered Sumatran tiger cubs stepped out of their den at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park Thursday to explore their outdoor habitat for the first time.

Two recently born Sumatran tiger cubs now have names fit for royalty.

The two cubs are the first of the critically endangered species to be born at the park in seven years.

Two adorable Sumatran tiger cubs were born at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park this month, the first of the critically endangered species to be born at the park through their team’s conservation efforts in 7 years, according to the zoo’s Wildlife Alliance.

Two adorable Sumatran tiger cubs were born at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park this month, increasing the population of this critically endangered species.

Known as the world’s largest rodent, the capybara is related to smaller rodents, such as guinea pigs and hamsters.

The four-week-old endangered red panda is first cub born at the zoo in nearly 20 years.

The San Diego Zoo Safari Park Thursday announced the birth of a young Przewalski’s horse, a critically endangered species previously considered extinct in the wild until 1996.

The three kits make up their mom, Winter’s, first litter.

Two of the bat-ear fox kits are shown here hanging out with mom. We’d show all three in one photo but they just move too fast.

An elephant known for being a peaceful presence to her peers at the San Diego Zoo has died at the age of 59, according to the zoo.

As an ambassador for rats, it’s never easy to win over the public. But Runa at the San Diego Zoo has been charged with teaching people the virtues of rats.

You might not be as safe as you think when you park at the San Diego Zoo. Visitors don’t realize that the zoo isn’t responsible for security in its parking lot, and last week, a woman was allegedly mugged in broad daylight, according to police.