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The Atlanta Science Festival is back, and you can celebrate by bringing more fun and enlightening STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) activities into your classroom! Here at Zoo Atlanta, we incorporate STEM principles into many of our daily operations. Our Animal Care Team uses the latest zoology research to determine how to keep the … Continue reading "STEM inspiration for your classroom "

Hey everyone! My name is Amanda, and I’m a primary keeper on the Hoofstock Team. You might have seen some updates from me in the past talking about the giant pandas and red panda here at the Zoo. Well, that’s because I was a primary keeper with pandas for a little over a year and … Continue reading "Learning Mumbles’ routine"

On occasion we might switch things up and you will see a red flash on PandaCam rather than a black-and-white figure. That’s because we want to feature the other panda, Jackie the red panda! Like I said, though, it may just be a flash, and that’s because he can be incredibly active from time to … Continue reading "Panda Updates – Monday, February 22"

Whew! Six years of work paid off last week with the publication of a big paper in the prestigious journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. It was widely covered by the media, and already the author of an influential textbook on vertebrate biology has reached out to us to include our images and … Continue reading "Snake scales are really cool!"

Greetings from Scaly Slimy Spectacular! If I were to ask you what the most dangerous animals are in our building, you’d probably mention the Gaboon vipers, African slender-snouted crocodiles, or many rattlesnakes we have in habitats here. But how about the poison dart frogs? The answer may surprise you. “Poison dart frog” is the general … Continue reading "The world of poison dart frog toxicity"

If you read our #KeeperStories and blogs regularly, you likely know that we do a lot of training around the Zoo. The animals are trained using positive reinforcement, which means we give them something they like, usually a preferred food, when they do the behavior we’ve asked them to do. It’s completely voluntary, so it’s … Continue reading "Panda Updates – Friday, February 12"

Hi everyone! My name is Megan, and I am one of the new primary keepers on the Panda Care Team. I thought I would use my first Panda Update to introduce myself! I have been at Zoo Atlanta since 2018, when I started as an intern with the Carnivore and Panda Teams. Following my internship, … Continue reading "Panda Updates – Monday, February 1"

A quick stroll around the Zoo can allow you to see the immense diversity of birds just by looking at one key anatomical feature – their beaks. Although birds aren’t the only organisms who get to claim the possession of this structure – see Testudines (turtles, tortoises, and terrapins) and Cephalopods (squid, octopi, and cuttlefish) … Continue reading "Bird nerd: Beak geek!"

January is usually a quiet time for us here in the Elephant Department, and since nobody is around to see them in the cold mornings before the Zoo opens, we have zero qualms about taking advantage of our coworkers’ recalcitrance towards shifting out into the chilly habitats; we don’t really want to go outside either. … Continue reading "Winter mornings in the Zambezi Elephant Center"

Well, Zoo Atlanta had yet another banner year in producing major research publications in 2020! Our staff published 10 peer-reviewed articles on various lines of our research programs and collaborations. This brings our institutional total up to a minimum of 375 publications since 1978. Listed below are the complete citations and, in some cases, links … Continue reading "2020 was another banner year for research"