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Passport to Adventure allows children in the household of Adventure Pack Levels and higher to collect passport stamps throughout the year to earn Zoo Atlanta prizes. Each passport is filled with fun facts, pictures, and mystery questions for your child to answer to facilitate learning and imagination. The passports offer a wonderful educational tool and … Continue reading "Passport to Adventure"

Passport to Adventure allows children in the household of Adventure Pack Levels and higher to collect passport stamps throughout the year to earn Zoo Atlanta prizes. Each passport is filled with fun facts, pictures, and mystery questions for your child to answer to facilitate learning and imagination. The passports offer a wonderful educational tool and … Continue reading "Passport to Adventure"

Passport to Adventure allows children in the household of Adventure Pack Levels and higher to collect passport stamps throughout the year to earn Zoo Atlanta prizes. Each passport is filled with fun facts, pictures, and mystery questions for your child to answer to facilitate learning and imagination. The passports offer a wonderful educational tool and … Continue reading "Passport to Adventure"

Passport to Adventure allows children in the household of Adventure Pack Levels and higher to collect passport stamps throughout the year to earn Zoo Atlanta prizes. Each passport is filled with fun facts, pictures, and mystery questions for your child to answer to facilitate learning and imagination. The passports offer a wonderful educational tool and … Continue reading "Passport to Adventure"

Listed below are the Zoo Atlanta logos in the EPS (vector artwork), TIF, and JPEG formats. If you have any questions or need further assistance please contact webmaster@zooatlanta.org.   Pantone Matching System (PMS) is a worldwide printing, publishing and packaging language for the selection, marketing, and control of color. PANTONE® is a registered trademark of Pantone Inc.              

How did the zebra get its stripes?  How did the tiger get its stripes? These are age-old questions in natural history. Convincing arguments have variously put forward suggesting camouflage, to visually confuse and thus deter annoying biting insects, and a complex scenario to create cooling air movements directly around the animal. This latter scenario works … Continue reading "Zebras and tigers oh my!"

CSI at the Zoo! What happened to these animal bones, thousands of years ago? A research team at Emory University is taking advantage of the fact that we feed our animals natural diets. In other words, for example, owls naturally consume rodents as prey, so we feed rodents to our milky eagle owls. Komodo dragons … Continue reading "Rodent Bones"

Hot off the presses! How does one correct a scientific error that was made more than 150 years ago? That’s what our team recently did, in collaboration with researchers from The Natural History Museum, in London, U.K. In 1858, renowned herpetologist Albert Günther, who was born in Germany but spent his career at The Natural … Continue reading "Mesoamerican Toads"

The last several months have been very exciting for the Golden Lion Tamarin Association in Brazil. I was in Brazil in August working with the project and have some exciting updates to share! Golden lion tamarins are native to a small area outside of Rio de Janeiro state in the Brazilian Atlantic Coastal forest. Only … Continue reading "Golden Lion Tamarin in Brazil"

Elephants for Africa focuses its research on male African elephants in Botswana, home to the largest remaining populations of African elephant. The work done by Dr. Kate Evans and her team provides us with continued information about male African elephant society, population numbers, and the interactions between elephants and local Botswanan farming communities through continued … Continue reading "Elephants for Africa"