San Diego Zoo Safari Park

African Elephants at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park instinctively created an “alert circle” during the earthquake.

The cub is an important development in the work to conserve Sumatran tigers, according to the San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance.

 A western lowland gorilla at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park has died due to a string of age-related conditions, zoo officials announced, and is being remembered as representing “the best of us” Monday.