Enter an amazing world created especially for animals, the San Francisco Zoo. It all started with a grizzly bear called Monarch. Today, giraffes, ostrichs, kudus and zebras have found their home at the 3-acre African Savanna exhibit, opened in 2004. If you like the small Madagascar primates, we invite you to visit the Lipman Family Lemur Forest, opened in 2002. Here you’ll find five species of lemurs you’ll definitely love. The San Francisco Zoo also offers an area created especially for children, a Dentzel Carousel, the Koret Animal Resource Center and the Connie and Bob Lurie Education Center.

If you get hungry while visiting the zoo, don’t worry, the Leaping Lemur Café offers you delicious pizzas and pasta.

The San Francisco Zoo main’s entrance faces the Pacific Ocean. You may also enter the zoo at the Friend and Taube Family Entry Village.

We care for animals and we invite you to do the same. Relax, have fun and be one with nature. The San Francisco Zoo is open daily for 10 am to 5 pm. The Children's Zoo is open daily from 11 am to 4 pm. We are here for you 365 days a year.

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