Beautiful and Diverse
The Santa Barbara Zoo is home to 146 species of mammals, reptiles, birds and insects exhibited in open, naturalistic habitats. If you can’t visit us in person, you can find out more about some of our animals here.
KEY:
currently not on view
Ambassador, meets with public
Mammals
LARGE MAMMALS
Giant anteater
Masai giraffe
Western grey kangaroo
SMALL MAMMALS
Asian small-clawed otter
Bennett’s wallaby
Capybara
Four-toed hedgehog
Prevost’s squirrel
Slender-tailed meerkat
Southern three-banded armadillo
CANIDS
Fennec Fox
Island fox
BIG CATS
African lion
Amur leopard
Snow leopard
MONKEYS
Cotton-top tamarin
Goeldi’s monkey
White-faced saki
BARNYARD
Domestic rabbit
Domestic sheep
Guinea hog
San Clemente Island goat
Birds
PHEASANTS
Crested fireback pheasant
Palawan peacock pheasant
WATERFOWL
Black swan
Black-necked swan
Mandarin duck
Marbled teal
White-faced whistling duck
FLAMINGO
Chilean flamingo
PIGEONS/DOVES
Blue crowned pigeon
Luzon bleeding heart dove
RATITE
Emu
FROGMOUTH
Tawny frogmouth
PENGUIN
Humboldt penguin
IBISES
Malagasy sacred ibis
Scarlet ibis
HAMERKOP
Hamerkop
CROWS & JAYS
Raven
HONEYEATER
Blue-faced honeyeater
TERNS
Inca tern
VULTURES
California condor
Western turkey vulture
EAGLES & HAWKS
Bald eagle
Red-tailed hawk
HORNBILLS
Southern ground hornbill
TURACO
White-cheeked turaco
KINGFISHER
Laughing kookaburra
TOUCAN
Toco toucan
COCKATOOS & MACAWS
Goffin’s cockatoo
Lesser sulphur-crested cockatoo
Sulphur-crested cockatoo
Blue and yellow macaw
Military macaw
Scarlet macaw
Amphibians
FROGS
Green & black poison arrow frog
Milky tree frog
Poison dart frog
Smoky jungle frog
Tree frog
Yellow & Blue poison arrow frog
Yellow Striped poison arrow frog
TOADS
Boreal toad
Cane toad
SALAMANDERS
Axolotl
Fish
Almorha loach
Peppered catfish
Prussian carp
Suckermouth catfish
Invertebrates
COCKROACHES
Caribbean giant cockroach
Madagascar hissing cockroach
MILLIPEDE
Giant African millipede
TARANTULA
Chilean rose hair tarantula
Reptiles
TURTLES
American red-bellied turtle
Coahuila box turtle
Hieroglyphic river cooter
Japanese pond turtle
Matamata turtle
Pacific pond turtle
River cooter
Western pond turtle
Yellow-spotted Amazon River turtle
TORTOISES
African spurred tortoise
Burmese black tortoise
Desert tortoise
Leopard tortoise
Radiated tortoise
LIZARDS
Asian water monitor
Bearded dragon
Blue-tongued skink
Desert iguana
Horned lizard
Northern blue-tongued skink
Prehensile-tailed skink
Rio Fuerte beaded lizard
Western chuckwalla
ALLIGATOR
Chinese alligator
GECKO
Henkel’s leaf-tailed gecko
NON-VENOMOUS SNAKES
Ball python
Bullsnake
Burmese python
California mountain kingsnake
Eastern indigo snake
Garden tree boa
Jamaican boa
Santa Cruz gopher snake
Sonoran gopher snake
Woma
VENOMOUS SNAKES
False water cobra
Madagascar giant hognose snake
Southern Pacific rattlesnake
