biggest_dreamer
Well-Known Member
Bear Hollow Zoo is a small free zoo in Athens, GA’s Memorial Park, which houses unreleasable native wildlife. It’s quaint and full of adequate enclosures for its handful of residents. You could very easily cover the entire zoo in 20 minutes if you cared to.
Signed but unseen are in italics. Note that I am phobic of snakes and would never intentionally look at one so those listings are based entirely on signage.
There’s also what I believe was a second similarly large exhibit next to the bears, suggesting that this place previously kept and perhaps still has the means to keep another larger species. It’s nice to know that they aren’t at capacity.
Overall this is a cozy little place. I spent about an hour and a half here, largely spent fruitlessly hoping the skunk would finally decide to emerge. Pretty standard native species roster though, aside from the less common skunk. Probably not worth going out of your way for, but if you’re in the area and have some time it might be worth checking out. I enjoyed it a lot for what it was.
Signed but unseen are in italics. Note that I am phobic of snakes and would never intentionally look at one so those listings are based entirely on signage.
- North American river otter
- North American beaver
- American alligator
- White-tailed deer
- Great horned owl
- Barred owl
- Red fox
- Eastern wild turkey
- Eastern screech owl
- Eastern spotted skunk
- Bald eagle
- American black bear
- Black rat snake
- Gray rat snake
- Eastern spadefoot
- Eastern box turtle
- Eastern kingsnake
- Gopher frog
- Tiger salamander
- Eastern box turtle, pine snake
- Gopher tortoise, eastern indigo snake
There’s also what I believe was a second similarly large exhibit next to the bears, suggesting that this place previously kept and perhaps still has the means to keep another larger species. It’s nice to know that they aren’t at capacity.
Overall this is a cozy little place. I spent about an hour and a half here, largely spent fruitlessly hoping the skunk would finally decide to emerge. Pretty standard native species roster though, aside from the less common skunk. Probably not worth going out of your way for, but if you’re in the area and have some time it might be worth checking out. I enjoyed it a lot for what it was.
