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At Zoo Atlanta, we have gorillas of all ages, from 1-year-old Floyd to Ozzie, who’s turning 60 this year. As you can imagine, a 1-year-old has a lot more energy than a 60-year-old.  Just like humans, as gorillas age, their bodies go through normal wear and tear. For our geriatric group of gorillas, who along … Continue reading "Caring for gorillas in their golden years"

A playful panda sure can muddy the water! Spring is hopefully just around the corner. This means that on nice days, we can fill the pools for the pandas in their outdoor habitats. The giant pandas have separate sources of clean and continually refreshed drinking water; the pools are for play! Yang Yang especially is … Continue reading "Panda Updates – Monday, March 8"

Now that spring is just around the corner, we are so glad to be enjoying this warmer weather! It does, however, mean that we have to keep a closer eye to the temperature because if it gets too warm, the giant pandas may need to step inside. That’s because giant pandas actually have really dense … Continue reading "Panda Updates – Friday, March 5"

If you have ever been to one of World of Wild Theater presentations where a parrot is in the lineup, you would have had a pretty good chance of hearing a joke about how the parrots still use an old box TV and VHS player to watch movies. Until very recently, that was actually not … Continue reading "Parrots have favorite movies?"

Get excited, college basketball fans! Your favorite month of the year has arrived. Many associate the month of March with the game of basketball. Specifically, they think of the NCAA Men’s and Women’s tournaments that are held to decide who is the best basketball team in the land. Right now, I can already feel the … Continue reading "March Madness!"

Here at Zoo Atlanta, we house three different family groups of orangutans. We have one Bornean group, one Sumatran group, and one group that has both Bornean and Sumatran orangutans because foster mom Madu (Sumatran) is raising Keju (Bornean). We also have a singly housed Sumatran female named Biji. She is 50 years old and … Continue reading "Meet Miri, Satu and Pelari"

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"

Zoo Atlanta will broaden community access to its signature summer camp experience with the return of the Safari Camp Scholarship Program. In 2021, scholarships will be awarded for both the Spring Break Session and the Summer Session of Camp. Originally launched in 2016 and offered in every consecutive year since with the exception of 2020, … Continue reading "Safari Camp Scholarship Program"