Resource Update Notifications

June 6, 2025

• Check out the new Biofact Basics page! This page is a good refresher for anyone who hasn't been through biofact training in a while as it includes the most essential information for using biofacts in your role at Zoo Atlanta.

May 27, 2025

• There is a new Animal Quick Reference!

October 13, 2024

• There is a new Animal Quick Reference and Elephant ID Guide!

September 26, 2024

The following reptile fact sheets have been updated!

• Diamondback terrapin

• Komodo dragon

• Merten's water monitor

• Mexican box turtle

• Mole kingsnake

• Papuan olive python

• Radiated tortoise

• Timor python

The following amphibian fact sheets have been added! We now have more than twice as many amphibian fact sheets as we did previously!

• Evergreen toad

• Green-and-black poison frog

• Red-eyed treefrog

• Strawberry poison frog

August 14, 2024

• There is a new Animal Quick Reference!

July 11, 2024

• The ostrich fact sheet has been updated to correct some outdated information: "The majority of eggs laid by our ostrich are have been emptied and sold with monies raised going to support the critically endangered North African ostrich." When the gift shop was managed by internal Zoo Atlanta team members, empty ostrich eggs were sold to raise funds for conservation. This ended when we engaged Event Network to manage retail sales.

July 9, 2024

The following reptile fact sheets have been updated! Only 15 more to go!

• Cape cobra

• Fiji banded iguana

• Gopher tortoise

• Green basilisk

• Jamaican boa

• Louisiana pine snake

• Mangrove snake

• Rosy boa

July 2, 2024

The following reptile and amphibian fact sheets have been updated! And more will follow!

• Eastern hellbender

• Green anaconda

• Guatemalan beaded lizard

• Panamanian golden frog

• Eastern indigo snake

• Eastern box turtle

June 27, 2024

• There is an another updated Animal Quick Reference which includes the lappet-faced vulture chick, additional tawny frogmouths and other updates!

June 18, 2024

• There is an updated Animal Quick Reference which includes Fig (wrinkled hornbill chick) and the new white storks! The next update will include other bird chicks.

June 12, 2024

• There are now fact sheets for keel-billed toucan and red-and-yellow barbet! The barbets are in The Living Treehouse and the keel-billed toucans are next door to Zazu and Gumby.

• The blue crane fact sheet has also been updated.

April 18, 2024

The following reptile and amphibian fact sheets have been updated! And more will follow!

• Aldabra tortoise

• Alligator snapping turtle

• Amazon Basin emerald tree boa

• Amazon tree boa

• Banded rock rattlesnake

• Black-legged poison dart frog

• Boelen's python

• Bog turtle

• Burmese mountain tortoise

• Burmese star tortoise

• Caiman lizard

• Copperhead

• Eyelash viper

• Gaboon viper

• Gila monster

• Jamaican iguana

• Pancake tortoise

• Yellow-blotched map turtle

January 2, 2024

The Animal Quick Reference has been updated!

August 1, 2023

New resource alert! Check out the new identification guides for gorillas and orangutans!

June 21, 2023

New resource alert! Check out the new identification guides for giant pandas and red pandas!

May 9, 2023

The gorilla relationship resources (family trees and sunburst graphs) have moved to the Animal Quick Reference page. There is also a new resource there - a Willie B. Family tree! This only includes his direct descendants (plus unrelated parents of his descendants).

November 14, 2022

There are now recordings of orangutan vocalizations on their species page. Check them out when you have a chance and let me (Sarah) know what you think! Also, feel free to explore other species recordings in the Macaulay Library and submit requests for additional recordings to be added to species pages.

October 13, 2022

A Conservation News Story summarizing the World Wildlife Fund's Living Planet Report 2022 has been added. Check it out when you have a chance. The story includes a link to access the full report as well.

June 23, 2022

A Conservation News Story about wildlife on the Atlanta Beltline has been added. Check it out when you have a chance and look for a familiar name quoted within the article!

April 11, 2022

A Conservation News Story about invasive tegu lizards in southeast Georgia has been added. Check it out when you have a chance!

April 6, 2022

A Conservation News Story about microplastics found in human blood samples has been added. Check it out when you have a chance!

April 5, 2022

Our first Identification Guide is here! Check out the Lemur ID Guide and feel free to request the species you'd like to see one for next.

December 23, 2021

New resource alert! Visit the new Research Resources to access a Google drive full of research articles, book chapters, conference proceedings and other reference materials.

October 30, 2021

New resource alert! Want to learn more about skull morphology? We have you covered! Check out the new "Introduction to Skulls" page and be on the lookout for more resources related to biofact interpretation in the future! To request specific resources, please use the Feedback form.

October 5, 2021

The "Shop for Sustainable Seafood" conservation messaging has been updated. The Monterey Bay Aquarium has discontinued the Seafood Watch app. You can no longer find it in app stores and it is no longer supported. They recommend deleting the app from your phone and adding seafoodwatch.org to your home screen. Learn more here.

September 29, 2021

A Conservation News Story about 23 species proposed to be removed from the endangered species list due to extinction has been added. Check it out when you have a chance!

September 22, 2021

A Conservation News Story about Walmart's new 'Built for Better' initiative has been added. Check it out when you have a chance!

September 14, 2021

A Glossary page has been added under Interpretive Resources to provide definitions of commonly used biology and ecology terms. You will also find links to the glossary throughout the site where these words appear. If there are additional terms you think would be helpful to include, please submit requests via the Feedback page.

September 5, 2021

The Komodo dragon page has been updated following the announcement from the IUCN that the species has been "uplisted" from Vulnerable to Endangered. Read more here.

August 25, 2021

New Conservation News Stories

• Madagascar on the brink of climate change-induced famine

• Tortoise eating bird caught on camera by conservationist

August 11, 2021

There is now a list of all species housed at Zoo Atlanta on the "Species Fact Sheets" page!

Reminder: Not all species have fact sheets.

August 2, 2021

You can now record your impact numbers right here on the Interpretive Resource Library! Look for the "Record Your Impact Numbers" page!

June 21, 2021

NEW RESOURCES:

• Toco toucan fact sheet: We recently launched the Toucan Wild Encounter, so it's a great time to learn more about the species!

• Animal birthdays calendar: Check out the Animal Quick Reference page for a new Google calendar of animal birth and hatch dates! You can even import the calendar to your Google account for easy access any time!

• Conservation news story: Conservation efforts can have unintended negative consequences - find out what happened when Tasmanian devils were introduced to an island environment.

May 1, 2021

Welcome to the all-new Interpretive Resource Library! Please use the Feedback page to submit broken links, typos, requests for additional resources, or any other request or notification.