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 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.

ATLANTA, Ga. (Atlanta News First) - A critically endangered gorilla born last week at Zoo Atlanta has died, zoo officials announced Monday. Officials said the female western lowland gorilla, who ...

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 ...

Officials in DeKalb County have begun construction on new overflow units for the county animal ... Atlanta Humane Society. Congratulations are in order to Kambera, a western lowland gorilla at Zoo ...

“We are very encouraged and cautiously optimistic that the baby will be able to nurse regularly in the near future,” said Sam Rivera, Zoo Atlanta’s vice president of animal health.

That’s the recent memory Dr. Sam Rivera, vice president of animal health at Zoo Atlanta, recalls when asked about his staff’s working conditions before the Rollins Animal Health Center opened in ...