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This form must be submitted to initiate Zoo Atlanta’s consideration process for the filming of motion picture and television productions. Please allow up to three business days to receive an initial contact from Zoo Atlanta. Please review our Location Filming Guidelines prior to submitting this form.

Zoo Atlanta welcomes and is pleased to consider motion picture and television productions that meet the parameters of our unique setting. Review our image gallery for highlights of one-of-a-kind locations throughout our grounds. Submit an inquiry Interested in Zoo Atlanta as a filming location? We’d love to hear from you! Use this form to submit an online inquiry. This form is required to initiate Zoo Atlanta’s consideration process. Please allow up to three business days to be contacted concerning your inquiry, and please note that incomplete or missing information will delay this process. Submit an inquiry  Review our location filming ... Continue reading Motion Picture and TV Filming

Zoo Atlanta has an Influencer Content Creator Program which collaborates with high-quality influencers, vloggers, bloggers, and others who help us share information about events and news at the Zoo in alignment with our mission and family-friendly environment.   Inquiries for visiting the Zoo or collaborating with the Zoo for an event must be submitted at least five business days before the designated date of the visit or event. The content on the Influencer Content Creator’s website and social media platforms must align with Zoo Atlanta’s mission, message, and safety guidelines. If we agree on a collaboration, Zoo Atlanta must review ... Continue reading Influencer Content Creator Application

Things have been pretty “status quo” in PandaLand. The pandas certainly keep us busy throughout the day as we are frequently refreshing their bamboo, cleaning their habitats, setting up enrichment, doing training sessions, or working on other tasks to ensure we are constantly doing the best jobs that we can for them. However, as the … Continue reading "Panda Updates – Friday, July 16"

Hello! My name is Haley, and I am a keeper at Outback Station here at Zoo Atlanta. Before I came to work at Outback Station, I was an educator in the Education Department and got to spend a lot of my time on grounds spreading the mission of the Zoo to all of you wonderful … Continue reading "Protecting our endangered sheep"

Recently I completed a complete draft of a manuscript that, essentially, I had been working on since 1989. It’s a few hundred pages long and reviews everything that is known about the toads (Family Bufonidae) of the amazing nation of Mexico. eventually it will be a component chapter of a broader effort entitled The Amphibians … Continue reading "The toads of Mexico"

The birds of Zoo Atlanta have some new neighbors! We recently welcomed a new but familiar species to the Bird Department. This species is known as the violaceous turaco. One male and one female have joined our population and currently reside across from our Indian peafowl habitat. I wanted to take just a minute to … Continue reading "Say hello (again!) to violaceous turacos!"

Although giant pandas and red pandas are not closely related, they actually share some cool similarities. The word panda in Nepalese means “bamboo eater.” This is fitting for both species because they exist on a diet of primarily bamboo, so they are both legitimately pandas. They also both have pseudothumbs, an extension of the wrist … Continue reading "Panda Updates – Monday, July 12"

As most of you know, we do a lot of positive reinforcement training here with the animals at the Zoo. Reptiles are no exception! I have been working with the giant Aldabra tortoises on target training for several years now, but they had also already trained with previous care team members So, a little bit about … Continue reading "Training with Shuffles"

Many of you may know that it is tradition for the pandas to get ice “cakes” for their birthdays every year. However, we sometimes like to give them ice “cakes” at other times, too. This year, they got some festive ice treats for the Fourth of July. The water was dyed blue with nontoxic food … Continue reading "Panda Updates – Friday, July 9"