Most zoos welcome you with the sound of animals behind glass or fences, but at this one, the first “staff member” you’ll likely meet is a flamingo. Instead of staying put in its enclosure, this bright ...

Molting peacocks squawked in the distance and a Pacific breeze whispered through the eucalyptus as flamingo keeper Liz Gibbons tidied her station at the San Francisco Zoo. It had been an unusually ...