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 […]
