The sfzoo is about to get its first jaguar since the turn of the century.
Zoo officials on Thursday announced that a male jaguar is coming to The City, after spending the last 11 years in Sacramento.
The unnamed jaguar is the first to reside at the San Francisco Zoo this century, and he will arrive at the zoo as part of the Association of Zoos and Aquarium's jaguar species survival plan. "Jaguars are the iconic cat of the Americas, and we are honored to share the story of this near threatened species, whose challenges include habitat loss, hunting and poaching," Tanya M. Peterson, CEO and executive director of the San Francisco Zoological Society said in a statement on Thursday.
The World Wildlife Fund estimates there are about 173,000 living jaguars today, almost half of which live in Brazil. Laura Cunningham, author of"A State of Change: Forgotten Landscapes of California," told KQED last year that the once-prominent big cat used to roam as far north as San Francisco.
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