He donated the animals—including a hyena, a jaguar, and a camel—to the city of Atlanta. A hundred acres were reserved to house them in a new zoo at Grant Park. Forty years later the zoo’s ...

Zoo Atlanta ... feeding branches of bamboo into his space. At noon, Lun Lun awoke and began walking around. “Keep moving ...

That’s the recent memory Dr. Sam Rivera, vice president of animal health at Zoo Atlanta, recalls when asked about his staff ... Rivera checks up on the pandas, watching a live feed on his phone of the ...

Zoo Atlanta is one of only three zoos in the U.S. housing giant pandas. The rare bears are a favorite among recent visitors, but the zoo also boasts more than 1,300 animals from more than 220 species.

In a symbolic shift in the way Zoo Atlanta handled animals, Willie B. in 1988 was moved from his cage to a naturalistic outdoor rain forest habitat sponsored by Ford Motor Co. He proceeded to sire ...