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Zoo Atlanta offers Scouts the opportunity to earn badges while exploring the Zoo.  Through hands-on, minds-on explorations, Scouts learn about animals, environmental issues and conservation.  Through workshops, special Scout Days and overnight experiences, there are a variety of badge requirements that can be earned, in addition to earning a Zoo Atlanta Patch!

All the way from kindergarten up to seniors in high school, Zoo Atlanta offers exciting educational field trips or afternoon programs of games, animal encounters and activities to boost brain cells. 

Receive an interactive, instructor-led presentation paired with up-close animal encounters and fun educational activities that take your field trip to the next level! Content covers Georgia Performance Standards for your grade in a lively, engaging format.

If you’ve yearned to get closer to the animals, now you can! Behind-the-scenes experiences with some of our wildest residents turn a trip to the Zoo into the chance of a lifetime.

You’re invited to a sleepover like no other! Spend the night at Zoo Atlanta and embark on a nocturnal adventure packed with animals, games and behind-the-scenes fun. Check out all of our NightCrawlers programs below.

Snakes! When I bring a snake out during an animal presentation, I usually encounter at least one person who’s a little less than enthusiastic. If you are afraid of snakes, let me start by saying it’s okay; in fact, many other animals have a natural fear of snakes (aside from species like the mongoose, whose … Continue reading "Keeper Stories – Thursday, March 23"

Zoo Atlanta prepares to say farewell to Andazi the rhino; The mother of the first rhino calf ever born at the Zoo will soon begin a new chapter in Arkansas Andazi, a 10-year-old female eastern black rhinoceros, will soon leave Atlanta for a new home at a new zoo, with a new chance to contribute to … Continue reading "Saying farewell to Andazi the rhino"

Zoo Atlanta prepares to say farewell to Andazi the rhino; The mother of the first rhino calf ever born at the Zoo will soon begin a new chapter in Arkansas Andazi, a 10-year-old female eastern black rhinoceros, will soon leave Atlanta for a new home at a new zoo, with a new chance to contribute to … Continue reading "Saying farewell to Andazi the rhino"

Now that our two little girls have mastered the running thing, the climbing thing, and the exploring thing in their indoor habitat, it is time they took the next step and tried to do all of that stuff outside. This week we will begin “cub proofing” one of the pandas’ outdoor habitats in order to … Continue reading "Panda Update – Wednesday, March 22"