October 12, 2024

Yang Yang

LIVED AT ZOO ATLANTA: From November 5, 1999, until his departure for China on October 12, 2024 NOW LIVES AT:...

October 12, 2024

Lun Lun

LIVED AT ZOO ATLANTA: From November 5, 1999, until her departure for China on October 12, 2024 NOW LIVES AT:...

February 11, 2022

Choomba

Choomba was a member of the founding group of gorillas who made up the origin of Zoo Atlanta’s gorilla program....

January 28, 2022

Ozoum (Ozzie)

Ozzie, whose given name was Ozoum, was the last surviving member of the founding group of gorillas who made up...

October 22, 2021

Abu

Abu was dominant and headstrong. He arrived at Zoo Atlanta in 2006. In 2010, he became the father of the...

December 14, 2018

Chantek

Chantek had a unique and engaging personality and special ways of relating to and communicating with those who knew him...

December 14, 2018

Shamba

A mother, grandmother and great-grandmother, she leaves an extraordinary legacy for her critically endangered species, with more than 30 descendants...

April 6, 2017

Willie B.

A legend in his own time, remembered fondly by generations of Atlantans, and an icon of the transformation of Zoo...

April 6, 2017

Ivan

Every life at the Zoo is a story worth sharing, but his story was once told so widely and passionately...

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