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 located a mile south of Oakland Cemetery in Grant Park. No Atlanta Streetcar stops or MARTA train stations are available within walking distance, but the No. 832 bus stops by the ...

That gave the Grant Park Zoo its first tiger ... what was now called Zoo Atlanta for the city of Atlanta and Fulton County. Maple, a Georgia Tech psychologist specializing in primate studies ...

the city drained the pond and turned it into a parking lot for the zoo. From the 1880s to the mid-20th century, Atlantans spent summers cooling off at Lake Abana in Grant Park. Alongside it were a ...

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 ...

Zoo Atlanta elephant predicts the 2024 Chick-fil-A Peach Bowl winner Zoo Atlanta's African elephant Msholo selected the winner of the 2024 Peach Bowl from two hay-filled boxes. 0:36 Now Playing Paused ...

Zoo Atlanta announced it was committing itself ... to protect the biodiverse habitat of Mt. Cameroon National Park, home to a fragile population of endangered drill monkeys. The project was ...

ATLANTA — A new Mellow Mushroom prototype location had its grand opening in Atlanta on Monday. The new location opened at The Boulevard at Grant Park along the Atlanta Beltline. It's the latest ...

Visit a petting zoo or animal farm in Atlanta when the weather ... Touch a baby alligator at the Okefenokee Swamp Park. Drive ...

Georgia's capital is composed of 242 neighborhoods ... Popular Eastside attractions range from kid-friendly locales like Grant Park's Zoo Atlanta to Sweet Auburn's Martin Luther King, Jr. National ...

Tis the season for holiday events around Atlanta! Families looking for wholesome merriment have plenty of options this holiday season, including Illuminights at Zoo Atlanta and Rudolph the Red ...