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
SMALL MAMMALS
Asian small-clawed otter
Bennett’s wallaby
Capybara
Four-toed hedgehog
Slender-tailed meerkat
Southern three-banded armadillo
CANIDS
Fennec fox
Island fox
BIG CATS
African lion
Amur leopard
Snow leopard
MONKEYS
Bolivian gray titi
White-faced saki
BARNYARD
Domestic rabbit
Domestic sheep
Guinea hog
San Clemente Island goat
MARSUPIAL
Virginia opossum
Birds
PHEASANTS
Crested fireback pheasant
Palawan peacock pheasant
WATERFOWL
Black swan
Black-necked swan
Mandarin duck
Marbled teal
White-faced whistling duck
FLAMINGOS
Chilean flamingo
PIGEONS/DOVES
Blue crowned pigeon
Luzon bleeding heart dove
RATITES
Emu
FROGMOUTHS
Tawny frogmouth
PENGUINS
Humboldt penguin
IBISES
Madagascar sacred ibis
Scarlet ibis
HAMERKOPS
Hamerkop
CROWS & JAYS
Raven
GULLS, TERNS & PELICANS
Inca tern
Brown pelican
VULTURES
California condor
Western turkey vulture
HAWKS, EAGLES & OWLS
Red-tailed hawk
Bald eagle
Great horned owl
HORNBILLS
Rhinoceros hornbill
Southern ground hornbill
KINGFISHERS
Laughing kookaburra
TOUCANS
Toco toucan
COCKATOOS & MACAWS
Goffin’s cockatoo
Lesser sulphur-crested cockatoo
Sulphur-crested cockatoo
Blue and yellow macaw
Military macaw
Scarlet macaw
HONEYEATERS
Blue-faced honeyeater
Amphibians
FROGS
Green & black poison arrow frog
Yellow & Blue poison arrow frog
Yellow Striped poison arrow frog
Milky tree frog
Pacific tree frog
Poison dart frog
Smoky jungle frog
TOADS
Boreal toad
Cane toad
SALAMANDERS & NEWTS
Axolotl
Coast range newt
Fish
Almorha loach
Red piranha
Freshwater angelfish
Peppered catfish
Plecostomus
Prussian carp
Invertebrates
COCKROACHES
Caribbean giant cockroach
Madagascar hissing cockroach
MILLIPEDES
Giant African millipede
SPIDERS & TARANTULAS
Black widow spider
Chilean rose hair tarantula
SCORPIONS
Asian forest scorpion
Reptiles
TURTLES
American red-bellied turtle
Coahuila box turtle
Hieroglyphic river cooter
Japanese pond turtle
Matamata 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
Rio Fuerte beaded lizard
Western chuckwalla
Desert iguana
Asian water monitor
Blue-tongued skink
Northern blue-tongued skink
Prehensile-tailed skink
ALLIGATORS
Chinese alligator
GECKO
Henkel’s leaf-tailed gecko
NON-VENOMOUS SNAKES
Bullsnake
California mountain kingsnake
Desert rosy boa
Garden tree boa
Jamaican boa
Santa Cruz gopher snake
Sonoran gopher snake
Madagascar giant hognose snake
Ball python
Burmese python
Woma
VENOMOUS SNAKES
Southern Pacific rattlesnake
False water cobra
