The playground at Celebration Hill by the Main Gate is closed. The silo slide in the Farmyard and Giant Tree slide in Maryland Wilderness remains open.
Penguin Construction Update – February 28th
The month of February has been cold, but we were lucky to have some really nice, warm days and hopefully more warm days to come. The Zoo’s new African Penguin exhibit has been making great progress thanks to the Whiting-Turner team, and Perry the Penguin has seen it all! The main public exhibit building, the Penguin Interpretive Center, continues to ...
Traffic Advisory for Saturday, June 14th
Due to the Baltimore 10-Miler Lake to Lake Race, many entrances into the Park will be closed to traffic early on Saturday, June 14. If you are planning to come to the Zoo, we suggest you take the following route to access the Zoo parking lot. We also suggest that you come no earlier than 10:00 am to ensure that some of the race traffic has moved from the ...
Maryland Zoo Celebrates 29th Annual ZooBOOO!
BALTIMORE, MD — On October 26, 27 and 28, 2012, The Maryland Zoo in Baltimore will celebrate 29 years of ZooBOOO! presented by CFG Community Bank, a Baltimore Halloween tradition. The event takes place from 10:00 am until 4:00 pm at the Zoo in the Waterfowl Lake Pavilion area. This year ZooBOOO! includes Baltimore’s safest Halloween trick-or-treating, ...
Penguin Coast Preview
http://youtu.be/Wc9W9XoOcP0 After years of planning and construction, the Penguin Coast exhibit is ready for its September 27th debut. Since the first days that the birds were introduced to the new habitat, they have grown more acclimated to their surroundings. The strange sights and sounds — especially from the dump tank — took some time to get used ...
North American Ruddy Duck
The ruddy duck is a strictly New World species that spends its summer breeding season in northwest “prairie pothole” country. This territory stretches from the northern Great Plains states up into Canada. Ruddy ducks winter on the Pacific and Atlantic coasts, across the southern United States, and into Mexico and Central America. They can be spotted ...
Discount for Zoo Members: “Island of Lemurs”
The Maryland Science Center’s IMAX Theater is now showing the eye-opening documentary “Island of Lemurs: Madagascar 3D.” The documentary explores the vivid and diverse group of lemurs that inhabit the exotic island, all shot through IMAX 3D cameras. Through the narration of Morgan Freeman, it tells the history of the primates — how ...
Maryland Zoo Celebrates 32rd Annual ZooBooo!
It’s a Baltimore Halloween Tradition! On October 23, 24, and 25, The Maryland Zoo in Baltimore will once again host ZooBOOO! presented by CFG Community Bank. The event takes place from 10:00 am until 4:00 pm at the Zoo in the Waterfowl Lake Pavilion area. This year ZooBOOO! includes Baltimore’s safest Halloween trick-or-treating, visits from our Animal ...
Lappet-faced Vulture
The lappet-faced vulture is native to much of Africa and the Middle East. Over most of its range, it inhabits dry and semi-arid land with only scattered trees, thorn bushes, and short grass. Lappet-faced vultures are typically solitary, spending most of their time alone or in pairs–unless congregating at a carcass. They roost in scattered trees, ...
Cheetah Conservation Fund
Annetjie Siyaya, Research and Education Manager at Cheetah Conservation Fund, will present on the work that CCF does to ensure a future for cheetahs in the wild. Please click this link to join the webinar: https://marylandzoo-org.zoom.us/j/81922443926 No registration needed! Just click the link above to join on the day of the Field Talk. [button ...
The Zoo Says Goodbye to Iconic Polar Bear, Magnet
The Maryland Zoo in Baltimore is deeply saddened to announce the passing of zoo icon and beloved polar bear, Magnet, age 26. Magnet had recently been diagnosed with kidney disease, but had overall remained in good health. During the past several days, Magnet’s quality of life had declined sharply, and he was humanely euthanized this ...
Ailing Cheetah, Rafiki, Euthanized
February 12, 2014 BALTIMORE, MD — The Maryland Zoo in Baltimore is saddened to announce the death of geriatric male cheetah, Rafiki. Rafiki had been suffering from kidney disease, arthritis, and other age-related ailments, but had remained in fairly good health until recently. During the past few weeks, his quality of life declined sharply and he ...
Eastern Hellbender
There are two subspecies of hellbender: the Eastern and the Ozark. Both once inhabited a vast network of Appalachian rivers and streams that drain into the Mississippi River, and both are now rare. Eastern hellbenders are found in small, isolated territories from the state of New York south to Georgia, Alabama, and Mississippi, and westward to central ...