Bringing my photos from Zoo Atlanta in for a landing, here is one last post. Yes, I could have included them in my Zoo Atlanta Review post, but there were already a lot of other photos in that post. Plus, how could a girl currently trapped living in Kansas miss an opportunity to leverage a Wizard of […]
Founded in the late 1880s when a traveling circus broke down and went bankrupt in Atlanta, the Atlanta Zoo opened in Grant Park with a jaguar, hyena, black bear, camels, and other creatures. The zoo expanded significantly in 1935 when Asa G. Candler, Jr., founder of the Coca-Cola Company and former Atlanta mayor, donated his […]
I kinda wish I’d had this photo available to post up for Valentine’s Day…
In the wild, gorillas live in groups called troops or bands. The troop is led by a dominant male gorilla, a silverback, who is easily identified by a silver strip of fur down his back. Unfortunately, I couldn’t get a good shot of the silverback in the main exhibit at Zoo Atlanta, but I did […]
For as long as I can remember, my daughter Gigi has adored giraffes. To me they resemble one another as both are tall, lean, and graceful. Here are three of my favorite photos of the giraffes at Zoo Atlanta. What do you think? Do you have a favorite below?
Beginning with a panda cub carried into the United States in the arms of fashion designer Ruth Harkness in 1936, Americans have been fascinated by giant pandas for decades. We fawned over Ling-Ling and Hsing-Hsing, the 18-month-old pandas who were gifts from the Chinese government during the Nixon Administration, and flocked by the millions to […]
