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Preserving Hawaiian Bird Cell Lines
Palila cellsThere is another side to the Hawaii Endangered Bird Conservation Program that happens at the San Diego Zoo’s Beckman Center for Conservation Research. Our Genetics Division has preserved...
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Birthday Celebration
Su Lin’s fifth birthday is our chance to kick off a whole week of panda birthday celebrations. Along with Su Lin’s birthday (watch video), we are celebrating Zhen Zhen’s third and the first birthday of...
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Excuse Me, Mr. or Ms. Naked Mole-Rat?
Naked mole-rat Make your way to the Children’s Zoo, and you will find one of the most unique mammal species in the world: the naked mole-rat Heterocephalus glaber. More closely related to the capybara...
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Ear Notches: Trash or Treasure?
Our newest reindeer calf’s DNA will soon be part of our Frozen Zoo. We have over 8,500 individual animal cell lines represented in our Frozen Zoo®, a cell line collection started in 1975 by San Diego...
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Birds of the Past Reveal Genetic Secrets
Paquita examines samples of archived bird specimens. The smell in the collections room immediately brings back very good memories. When I first visited the California Academy of Sciences in 2007, their...
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Learning about “Soemmies”
Genetic studies revealed useful information about our founder herds of “Soemmies.” When I was 14, I read an article in ZOONOOZ (San Diego Zoo Global’s member magazine) that highlighted a few...
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Who Will Catch Johne’s Disease?
Gina Geiselman works with DNA samples in the Genetics Lab. Wild animals can be endangered for many different reasons, most of them related to habitat loss, poaching, climate change, and pollution....
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