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Choose one of limited time slots for Santa’s first stop on December 6 and 7  WHAT:  Don’t miss out on Santa’s first stop – reservations are going fast for Cookies with Santa, coming up on Saturday and Sunday, December 6 and 7, 2025.     Make plans now for a personal visit with Santa and a professional photo available for free … Continue reading "RESERVATIONS ARE FLYING OFF THE SLEIGH FOR COOKIES WITH SANTA"

At Zoo Atlanta, our mission is to pair innovation with responsible animal care. When those values meet, we can better understand the animals in our care and continue improving their welfare.   One recent example of this is our cognitive bias study with our three African lions – Hondo, Hatari, and Azizi – and was designed … Continue reading "Lions, construction, and cognitive bias, oh my! (Part 1)"

If there’s one thing the Bird Team has in abundance this year, it’s tawny frogmouths. These quirky birds often get mistaken for owls due to their large faces, big eyes, and brown coloration. However, this species isn’t related to owls at all! Tawny frogmouths belong to the order Caprimulgiformes, which also includes species found here in … Continue reading "An abundance of tawnys"

Hello! My name is Logan, and I am a member of the Herpetology Team here at Zoo Atlanta. This means that I work with turtles, snakes, frogs, and other reptiles and amphibians. This wide diversity is actually a key point to what I will be discussing today, and that is: What happens when one animal … Continue reading "Terraforming habitats: Anaconda to Old Iguana"

The wonders of life on Earth come aglow with the return of IllumiNights at the Zoo, lighting up the holiday season this November. Tickets are now on sale for the signature lantern festival, which opens to the public on November 21, 2025, and continues through January 18, 2026. IllumiNights is made possible with support from … Continue reading "Tickets are now on sale for IllumiNights at the Zoo"

The wonders of life on Earth come aglow with the return of IllumiNights at the Zoo, lighting up the holiday season this November. Tickets are now on sale for the signature lantern festival, which opens to the public on November 21, 2025, and continues through January 18, 2026. IllumiNights is made possible with support from … Continue reading "Tickets are now on sale for IllumiNights at the Zoo"

If you’ve been keeping up with our Conservation Blogs this year, you may know that in 2025 we’ve been highlighting different ways that our team members support our conservation partners beyond the Zoo. This month, we’re putting a different spin on the phrase “beyond the Zoo.” We are focusing on YOU, and how YOU can … Continue reading "Beyond the Zoo … and You!"

Every day, a dedicated team ventures out to find the freshest, healthiest browse for the animals. In case you’re not familiar, “browse” is the term we use for fresh leaves, twigs, and branches, which are parts of a healthy diet for many of the herbivore species here at the Zoo. Now that you know what browse is, did you … Continue reading "Keeping animal diets fresh and healthy: Meet the Browse Team"

Hello again! It’s Josh from Zoo Atlanta’s Bird Department. After being a keeper for over a decade, I have added words and phrases to my vocabulary that definitely didn’t exist before. At least not in the context that animal care professionals use them in our daily lives. Words like howdying, internal pipping/external pipping, and fledgery … Continue reading "What is a dummy egg?"

For generations, humans have lived in or ventured into the jungles of Africa to look for treasure. Those with the most careful of eyes find the treasure looking right back at them. In the eyes of the great apes, we find a reflection of ourselves. Both gorillas and chimpanzees are social creatures and demonstrate a … Continue reading "Co[ngo]Existence"