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Brothers will also serve as celebrity judges for Zoo Atlanta’s Build Your Best Challenge, closing July 15 WHAT: In celebration of Sean Kenney’s Nature POP!®, open now at Zoo Atlanta for a limited engagement, Zoo Atlanta is pleased to host a second visit by metro Atlanta’s own well-known LEGO® builders. Mark and Steven Erickson, winners … Continue reading "MEET LEGO® MASTERS CHAMPIONS MARK AND STEVEN ERICKSON ON JULY 16"

Brothers will also serve as celebrity judges for Zoo Atlanta’s Build Your Best Challenge, closing July 15 WHAT: In celebration of Sean Kenney’s Nature POP!®, open now at Zoo Atlanta for a limited engagement, Zoo Atlanta is pleased to host a second visit by metro Atlanta’s own well-known LEGO® builders. Mark and Steven Erickson, winners … Continue reading "MEET LEGO® MASTERS CHAMPIONS MARK AND STEVEN ERICKSON ON JULY 16"

Ahhh, sweet summertime – the season of pool parties, blockbuster movies, backyard barbecues and community cookouts. As we enjoy the culinary offerings at these events, we may not be thinking about our personal health (in fact, I’d encourage you not to). The beauty of a One Health perspective is that we don’t need to focus … Continue reading "Cooking out for conservation"

Longtime conservation partnership is helping to re-establish a native species in its original range ATLANTA – July 5, 2022 – One of the Southeast’s most iconic ecosystems recently welcomed 25 more of its original members with the reintroduction to the wild of a group of eastern indigo snakes reared at Zoo Atlanta. Introduced into Alabama’s … Continue reading "25 EASTERN INDIGO SNAKES REARED AT ZOO ATLANTA ARE REINTRODUCED TO THE WILD"

Longtime conservation partnership is helping to re-establish a native species in its original range One of the Southeast’s most iconic ecosystems recently welcomed 25 more of its original members with the reintroduction to the wild of a group of eastern indigo snakes reared at Zoo Atlanta. Introduced into Alabama’s Conecuh National Forest, near Andalusia, on … Continue reading "EASTERN INDIGO SNAKES REARED AT ZOO ATLANTA REINTRODUCED TO THE WILD"

Craft cocktail series is back for its second installment of the summer WHAT: Cocktail aficionados who missed the debut of Savanna Nights, the all-new, 21-and-up summer craft cocktail series at Zoo Atlanta, have another opportunity to experience the event with its upcoming second installment on Friday, July 8, 2022. Guests will enjoy tastings of imaginative, … Continue reading "THE ALL-NEW SAVANNA NIGHTS RETURNS JULY 8"

As an intern here at Zoo Atlanta with the Panda Care Team, I have learned a lot about the husbandry of these amazing bears! My duties have included preparing diets, cleaning dayrooms, dens and habitats, and creating enrichment for the giant pandas and Jackie, the red panda here at the Zoo.  Enrichment is an important … Continue reading "Panda Updates- Wednesday, June 29"

Hi! My name is Whitney, and I am the newest member of the Zoo’s Carnivore Team. I am originally from Minnesota, and yes, I still say “pop” over “soda.” I moved to North Carolina about seven years ago before I came down to Atlanta. My animal career actually started off in aquatics. I started as … Continue reading "The aquatic majesty of the giant otter"

This is my last post with Zoo Atlanta, as I am moving on to a new chapter, and I thought it might be cool to highlight all of my favorite facts about the animals I’ve worked with during my time here. Yang Yang truly appreciates attention and time with his care team. He is a … Continue reading "Panda Updates- Monday, June 27"

OK, let’s settle this for once and for good!  This question, that surely has been the basis of many family and social-hour squabbles, turns out to be extraordinarily simple to address. So, this will likely be my shortest Research Blog to date. Tetrapods are the group of animals with backbones that are not fish. In … Continue reading "Which came first—the chicken, or the egg?"