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Wade, we were here only once, in 2000. My overall impression - light on cats, the pandas were awesome, the gorilla areas were fantastic.
Mary Ann
Mary Ann,
Their gorilla facility used to be appalling. When Dr. Terry Maple, took over the Directorship, in the late 80's he being a Primate specialist designed there fabulous new facility. Atlanta is a very nice zoo, often overlooked.
Wade
Wade you'll probably remember that in the mid 80's there were all kinds of problems at Atlanta with serious mortalities and the usual rumblings about (then) AAZA accreditation etc... All that despite an active building program already underway or on the table. (Witness San Francisco's current problems.) The dirty little secret is that good keepers and curators and find work arounds in outdated facilities, and sometimes as new facilities come online new problems arise because of unanticipated glitches. Some of Atlanta's problems were associated with "change." Miami Metrozoo went through some rough transitions at the same time. Back in the 1960's when the new park in Toronto was under construction, one of the early "modern" zoos there were issues as well. By the late '70's when I saw Toronto for the first time, watching Siberians outdoors in a blinding snowstorm it was the "model" for what new zoos could be. The gorilla facility in Atlanta is wonderful, and there was never a good excuse for a "bad" primate facility in the hometown of the Xerxes Primate Labs -- but in the '80's some of what went on in Atlanta was as much about new process and protocols in newer areas of the park as it was about the antiquated older areas.
Ben
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