Fresno Chaffee Zoo is home to approximately 125 species, with more always on the way. We are the only zoo in North America that currently houses Northland green geckos (on exhibit) and Southern tent tortoises (off exhibit).

Your Fresno Chaffee Zoo is also home to 18 species that are part of the Species Survival Plan, or SSP, a program created by AZA member zoos to systematically develop breeding management strategies to help protect some of the planet's rarest animals. Our SSP species include:

• Addax
• Andean condor
• Aruba Island rattlesnake
• Chacoan peccary
• Colobus
• Cinereous vulture
• Fennec fox
• Keel-billed toucan
• Lesser spot-nosed guenon
• Malayan tiger

• Malayan tapir
• Mexican red-kneed tarantula
• Orangutan
• Radiated tortoise
• Red wolf
• Red ruffed lemur
• Ring-tailed lemur
• Scimitar-horned Oryx
• Siamang