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See the building of the all-new African Savanna and the revitalization of Savanna Hall taking shape. Newly-released drone footage shows six months of construction progress on Grand New View, the historic transformation at Zoo Atlanta. On the heels of a capital campaign that raised more than $42.5 million, Zoo Atlanta broke ground on Grand New … Continue reading "Construction progress on Grand New View"

A mother, grandmother and great-grandmother, she leaves an extraordinary legacy for her critically endangered species, with more than 30 descendants living at Zoo Atlanta and at accredited zoos around the U.S.

If you’ve been keeping up with the exciting Grand New View news, you know we’re preparing to welcome southern white rhinos in 2019! The rhinos will occupy a new habitat in what is currently our elephant habitat. Although Zoo Atlanta previously housed eastern black rhinos, white rhinos require different care and housing due to their … Continue reading "Preparations for southern white rhinos"

My name is Morgan, and I am a Primate Keeper at Zoo Atlanta. The area where I spend most of my time is with the small African Primates. This includes the drills, Wolf’s guenons, Schmidt’s guenons and Angolan colobus monkeys. Recently the animals celebrated the holiday season with some holiday-inspired enrichment. What is enrichment, you … Continue reading "Enrichment is enriching for animals and us"

Ya Lun and Xi Lun are little bamboo-eating machines! We are currently training them the “bamboo” cue, and they are making it so easy because they love to eat bamboo. It may sound strange to say that we are training them to eat bamboo; however, that’s not exactly what we are doing. The goal is … Continue reading "Panda Updates – Monday, December 10"

Hi everyone! My name is Sam, and I am a Herpetology Keeper here at Zoo Atlanta. Today I’d like to talk about the ever-popular and famous king cobra! King cobras are the longest venomous snakes in the world, reaching up to 18 feet in length. These intelligent predators are great swimmers and climbers and can … Continue reading "The sssensational king cobra"

Having worked with Lun Lun for eight years now, I’ve never actually known her to not be either going through a pregnancy or rearing cubs. Lun Lun does not have any cubs to care for this year. It’s so interesting to be able to see her individual personality shine through as she has an opportunity … Continue reading "Panda Updates – Wednesday, December 5"

You may walk by our habitat for endangered lappet-faced vultures and see sticks all over the ground or see one of our vultures walking around with a stick clamped tight in his or her beak. Our male, Anubis, and our female, Amana, have been busy working every day for the past few weeks making a … Continue reading "What’s up with all the sticks?"

Did you know on average, Americans produce 25 percent more trash between Thanksgiving and New Year’s? That’s about 1 million extra tons of trash in our landfills and oceans generated in less than just six weeks. While that seems like an embellished statistic, it’s not hard to wrap our heads around when we think about … Continue reading "Green holiday how-to"

‘Tis the season to reflect on all you have been given this past year and celebrate those gifts with your family and friends. Here at Zoo Atlanta, we are also celebrating a great 2018! The Zoo Atlanta family celebrates the holidays in many ways each year, from holiday gatherings for our team members, to volunteer … Continue reading "A season to be green"