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Brrrr! Who turned up the air conditioner in Atlanta this week? It’s about as cold here as it was in Pennsylvania when I was visiting for Christmas. Yikes! Of course, the pandas don’t really seem to mind. Just one more way that the giant pandas are different from the meat-eating carnivores and many of the … Continue reading "Panda Updates – Wednesday, January 3"

Webster’s Dictionary defines the word “sustainable” as “of, relating to, or being a method of harvesting or using a resource so that the resource is not depleted or permanently damaged.” Why are we talking about sustainable living at the Zoo? We focus on sustainable practices at the Zoo because the animals we care for and … Continue reading "Simple steps to a sustainable New Year"

Do you love animals? Are you passionate about saving wildlife and wild places? Join the Zoo Volunteer Crew and be a part of the Zoo’s work to protect wildlife and wild places across the globe every day. From Family Volunteers to adult Docents, there are options that fit ages from 8 years old and up! … Continue reading "Join the Zoo Atlanta Volunteer Crew"

As part of the giant pandas’ animal care team, we are lucky to get to know the pandas on individual levels and observe their unique personality traits. Their individual personalities are one of the many methods used to tell the cubs apart, particularly when they are still very small and look similar. As the cubs … Continue reading "Panda Updates – Wednesday, December 27"

We hope everyone had a happy holiday with family and friends! Now that the holidays are winding to a close, you might have a festive, but slowly de-needling tree in your home. You may be planning on leaving it up for a few more weeks (or months), but before you know it, you’re going to … Continue reading "Now, what should we do with this tree?"

Ya Lun and Xi Lun have taken quite a while to adjust to the outdoor habitat. They enjoy eating out there with Lun Lun, but are less comfortable resting outside and prefer to sleep in the dayrooms. In the last week or so, we have seen both cubs trying out different sleeping spots in the … Continue reading "Panda Updates – Friday, December 22"

If you’ve been to the Zoo in the last month or two, you may have noticed some construction fencing around the old Cyclorama building. However, if you’ve visited us in the last few weeks, you may have noticed that the construction fencing has recently also appeared in some areas in our African Plains section of … Continue reading "Behind-the-scenes in prep for a Grand New View"

I know we have all been talking about the cubs eating bamboo quite a bit lately, but it’s really the only new thing that is happening right now. They are eating more and more bamboo each day. This past week, they have started eating the culm (or the stem) of the bamboo instead of only … Continue reading "Panda Updates – Friday, December 15"

A few years ago, when I was the Zoo’s Curator of Herpetology, I walked into the old World of Reptiles and the keepers told me that we had a newborn cottonmouth (Agkistrodon piscivorus). This was strange, I thought, because we had only a single female cottonmouth in the population. Female snakes are known to sometimes … Continue reading "Who’s your daddy?"

Over the past two months, I have transitioned from working in the Herpetology Department to working with the feathered relatives of reptiles in the Bird Department. Shifting from one department to another is exciting in that you get to share your unique perspective with a whole new group of people and animals. Each day is … Continue reading "Endotherms vs. ectotherms and their care"