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If you’re in a hurry, he’s not your guy. Don’t be fooled by his years; he has only begun to enter the ripeness of his middle age, and he may live to be well over 100. Shuffles was voted “President of Zoo Atlanta” in the Zoolection of 2016!

Our three lion brothers have grown into their majestic appearance as fully-grown adult male lions.  Hondo is the largest of the Zoo’s trio, and is usually the dominant lion in the group.  Listen out for the boys throughout the day showing off their newly perfected roaring abilities.

Zazu has her own way of doing things. She likes to wash her food before she eats it. She likes to sing duets with her mate, Gumby. Zazu does all of the incubation while Gumby brings her nesting material and food. Zazu is the first one to run to the front of the habitat when … Continue reading "Zazu"

Born at Zoo Atlanta, but named after a national park in Madagascar. She has a very dark face and her eyes are more orange in color compared to her sister Luna’s eyes, which are more yellow. Female lemurs are more dominant then the males so you can typical see her and her sister more active during breeding season from … Continue reading "Malaky"

Lun Lun is an avid climber and enjoys sleeping on climbing structures. Born at the Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding in China, she was separated from her mother at 4 ½ months of age. She arrived at Zoo Atlanta with Yang Yang in 1999 and has gone on to become the mother of … Continue reading "Lun Lun"

Treetop Trail presented by Kaiser Permanente The Zoo Atlanta experience will climb to new heights with the opening of an all-new aerial playground  In spring 2017, all wildlife enthusiasts who have ever admired the skills of tree-dwelling animals will have a chance to test their own skills with the opening of an all-new aerial playground: … Continue reading "Treetop Trail"

Love is in the air! Yep, even in the winter. Male opossums go through physiological changes during the winter months that we call rut. As hormones surge through their bodies, their minds are focused on one thing, and only one thing. They lose interest in food and spend hours simply wandering around, noses in the … Continue reading "Keeper Stories – Thursday, January 12"

Eastern diamondback rattlesnakes are the largest venomous snakes the U.S. They are maligned and slaughtered, both opportunistically by rural citizens and systematically in locally promoted rattlesnake roundups. Despite their large size and the medical importance of the rare accidental bite to a human, these are quiet and reclusive snakes that do very little harm unless harassed or restrained.

Eastern indigo snakes are the largest native non-venomous snake in the United States. Rather than relying on constriction to disable their wide variety of prey items, they simply overpower their prey with their muscular jaws and swallow it whole. Their conservation status is of concern because their preferred habitat, the longleaf pine forest, has been heavily fragmented by agricultural and logging practices.

The Guatemalan beaded lizard lives only in an isolated pocket of desert in eastern Guatemala. Discovered by scientists in the mid-1980s, this distinctive lizard has been well known to local populations in Guatemala for millennia. This species is one of the five closely related species of venomous beaded lizards, including the Gila monster of the southwestern U.S. The venom is used entirely for self-defense and is not used in the capturing of prey.