Due to expected weather conditions associated with the forecasted winter storm, Zoo Atlanta will be closed on Sun., 1/25. The Zoo will be open on Sat., 1/24.  

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January 17, 2017

Keeper Stories – Tuesday, January 17

Did you survive the snow-pocalypse 2.0? It wasn’t as bad as the first go round, but we still had enough...
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January 12, 2017

Keeper Stories – Thursday, January 12

Love is in the air! Yep, even in the winter. Male opossums go through physiological changes during the winter months...
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January 11, 2017

Zebras and tigers oh my!

How did the zebra get its stripes?  How did the tiger get its stripes? These are age-old questions in natural...
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January 11, 2017

Rodent Bones

CSI at the Zoo! What happened to these animal bones, thousands of years ago? A research team at Emory University...
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January 11, 2017

Mesoamerican Toads

Hot off the presses! How does one correct a scientific error that was made more than 150 years ago? That’s...
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January 11, 2017

Golden Lion Tamarin in Brazil

The last several months have been very exciting for the Golden Lion Tamarin Association in Brazil. I was in Brazil...
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January 11, 2017

Elephants for Africa

Elephants for Africa focuses its research on male African elephants in Botswana, home to the largest remaining populations of African...
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January 10, 2017

Keeper Stories – Tuesday, January 10

It’s our first Bird Team keeper blog of the year, and we have a really exciting new bird arriving! In...
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January 6, 2017

Panda Update – Friday, January 6

Now that the cubs are more mobile, we are seeing some more personality differences come out. Ya Lun is bold...
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January 4, 2017

Panda Update – Wed. January 4 

Now that the cubs are able to walk a bit better, the next two tasks for them to tackle are...
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