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Even after being at the Zoo for eight years, I am always learning something new, and that is often thanks to the excellent questions our guests ask us! As a swing keeper I work with many species, so I’ll never be able to know everything about all of them, but that doesn’t mean I don’t … Continue reading "Panda Updates – Friday, March 12"

Hey everyone – This is Ash, from the Herpetology (reptiles and amphibians) Team here. I am happy say that spring is just around the corner! As the weather is warming up, you may even be lucky enough to see some of our local reptiles emerging from overwintering. One of my recent interactions with a guest … Continue reading "Meet your backyard brown snake"

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 "

Zoo Atlanta celebrates the births of twin golden lion tamarins, born on February 11, 2021. The infants, who are a month old today, are the offspring of parents Blixx and Tiete. While twin births are common for the species, the first month of life is an exceptionally fragile period for golden lion tamarins, which are … Continue reading "Twin golden lion tamarins born at Zoo Atlanta"

Zoo Atlanta celebrates the births of twin golden lion tamarins, born on February 11, 2021. The infants, who are a month old today, are the offspring of parents Blixx and Tiete. While twin births are common for the species, the first month of life is an exceptionally fragile period for golden lion tamarins, which are … Continue reading "Twin golden lion tamarins born at Zoo Atlanta"

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?"

Our second installment of our year-long coverage of the wildlife trade focuses on trade in our own backyards. You have probably heard about the wildlife trade and trafficking as something that happens in other countries, as the most notable stories are of elephants and rhinos being killed in Africa or tigers being poached in Indonesia, … Continue reading "The wildlife trade in our own backyard"