So, is it a boy or a girl? Hear if the San Diego Zoo’s veterinary staff has an answer yet. Dr. Geoff Pye conducted the cub’s second examination, and he takes a few minutes to tell us how this exam went. (6:53)

NEW! iZoofari Chats are a series of interviews that put you in touch with the people who work for the Zoo and Wild Animal Park. Current subscribers to either the Zoo or Wild Animal Park podcast feeds will also get the iZoofari Chats.

How do you know when a female koala is ready to breed? It’s not such an easy task. CRES Neeper Summer Student Fellow Maressa Takahashi and San Diego Zoo koala keeper Amy Alfrey are involved in a study of female koala behavior that should help keepers decide when the time is right. Read a blog about Maressa’s study. (11:35)

NEW! iZoofari Chats are a series of interviews that put you in touch with the people who work for the Zoo and Wild Animal Park. Current subscribers to either the Zoo or Wild Animal Park podcast feeds will also get the iZoofari Chats.

NEW! iZoofari Chats are an occasional series of interviews that put you in touch with the people who work for the Zoo and Wild Animal Park. Current subscribers to either the Zoo or Wild Animal Park podcast feeds will also get the iZoofari Chats.

San Diego Zoo veterinarian Dr. Meg Sutherland-Smith describes the first exam of Bai Yun’s newest cub, what she looks for during the exam, and how this cub compares to the three others she has examined. (9:45)

Read a blog about the first exam.

NEW! iZoofari Chats are an occasional series of interviews that put you in touch with the people who work for the Zoo and Wild Animal Park. Current subscribers to either the Zoo or Wild Animal Park podcast feeds will also get the iZoofari Chats.

As Bai Yun’s newborn cub grows, panda researcher Suzanne Hall fills us in on how the new cub’s progress compares to others, and gives us some insight on how pandas take care of their young. (12:23)

NEW! iZoofari Chats are an occasional series of interviews that put you in touch with the people who work for the Zoo and Wild Animal Park. Current subscribers to either the Zoo or Wild Animal Park podcast feeds will also get the iZoofari Chats.

Caroline Pitt and Blair Roberts of the Behavioral Biology Division of CRES take us out into the East Africa field exhibit at the Wild Animal Park to talk about their research on the animals who call it home. (15:37)