Many of the animals at Zoo Atlanta can be observed easily. You can even visit them during our open hours. But what happens when the animal care teams leave
They have feet that look like our hands, but with claws, which allows them to grip
Hello everyone, it’s Gorilla Care Team member Allie again, and I hope you are all staying safe and healthy. Today, we are going to be looking at gorilla teeth
Now I want you to go ahead and put your hands on your temples and make a chewing
Imagine an animal with me. It has claws and a long tail. It has a mane of hair around its face. Its vocalizations can be heard across long distances. It is
the next Conservation Blog, where they’ll share their experience getting their hands
Which glue should you buy for your classroom? One dries clear, one is a liquid, and one is super strong. The students like the purple ones that dry clear, but
Once garbage leaves our hands, it is difficult to guarantee that it goes through
Today, I am coming to you from The Living Treehouse to introduce one of its newest occupants. We have a sunbittern chick, the first ever known to hatch at
After that, we were pretty hands off.
No creature looms larger over the savanna than the African elephant, and you’ll agree when you come face-to-trunk with one on our African elephant Wild Encounter!
course, no Elephant Wild Encounter would be complete without the opportunity to hand-feed
A quick stroll around the Zoo can allow you to see the immense diversity of birds just by looking at one key anatomical feature – their beaks. Although birds
The blue-throated macaws use their bills as a substitute for their hands.
Guenons are a diverse group of Old World monkeys, characterized by enormous cheek pouches that they stuff with food opportunistically as they forage. They will then actually consume the bounty from their recent foraging bout in a secluded retreat, safe from predators. They mainly eat fruits and small animals such as insects or lizards. Like the other species of guenon, these are social animals living in family groups, with a single dominant male. Group size may reach 50 animals when resources are abundant, but groups may split into smaller units if resources become scarce.
cling by gripping the fur on the mother’s stomach while also being supported by her hands
Sloths are arboreal animals and are slow and deliberate rather than swift and agile. Specialized, enlarged claws enable them to hang upside down below the branches they traverse. Sloths derive their entire diet of leaves and some fruits in the trees, and they do almost everything upside down.
The hands and feet are highly specialized, with naked, heavily calloused soles and
What is the illegal wildlife trade, and equally importantly, what can you do to help?
Communities in or near areas where poaching occurs often fall victims to violence at the hands
