Maryland Zoo Celebrates 36th Annual ZooBOOO!
-The Elephant Pumpkin Smash is Back!- BALTIMORE, MD – For the 36th year, The Maryland Zoo brings growls and ghouls together in ZooBOOO! presented by Chase. The Zoo offers the wildly festive event on October 25, 26, and 27, from 10 a.m. until 4 p.m. ZooBOOO! includes safe Halloween trick-or-treating, visits from our Animal Ambassadors, two costume ...
Super Bowl Predictions from the Maryland Zoo
Watch as Harry & Lloyd, two miniature Mediterranean Donkeys, make their pick BALTIMORE, MD – The Maryland Zoo’s two miniature Mediterranean donkeys, Harry and Lloyd, are football animals! In an annual tradition, they had a chance to choose the team they feel will win this weekend’s Super Bowl. It’s hard to say if one team emerged as their ...
Multi-State Coalition Teams up to Repopulate Allegheny Woodrat in the Wild
BALTIMORE, MD – The Maryland Zoo, the Pennsylvania Game Commission, and the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine’s Wildlife Futures Program are members of the Allegheny Woodrat Working Group that have teamed up to start a Woodrat Captive Breeding Program (WCBP) to rebuild struggling populations of Allegheny woodrats (Neotoma ...
Southern White Rhinos #30 and #33 Now Have Names!
-- Hello J.P. and Jelani! -- BALTIMORE, MD – The Maryland Zoo is happy to announce that the two southern white rhinos that made their debut earlier this spring now have official names. Next time you come to the Zoo, please say hello to J.P. and Jelani! [caption id="attachment_27056" align="alignright" width="300"] New Rhino #30: James Paul ...
Maryland Zoo Unveils New Virtual Reality Experience
BALTIMORE, MD – The Maryland Zoo in Baltimore today unveiled a new virtual reality experience called Wildlife Quest. Wildlife Quest pairs VR headsets with high-tech motion seats in an outdoor theater that transports Zoo guests into a 360-degree virtual reality to get up close to actual animals living in the wild. “Maryland Zoo is an immersive ...
Maryland Zoo Admission Prices Drop With The Temperatures
- Beginning December 1, all tickets $15 through February 2022 - November 29, 2021 (BALTIMORE, MD) – As the weather outside turns frightful, the Maryland Zoo will remain delightful with discounted winter pricing. From Wednesday, December 1, 2021, until Monday, February 28, 2022, admission is $15 per person. For Zoo members and children under two, ...
The Year in Review 2021
With 2021 coming to a close, we thank you for your incredible support this year! Simply put, we couldn’t be successful without you. From all of your friends at the Zoo, we wish you all the best 2022 has to offer. Now it’s time to take a look back at the good, and bittersweet, things this year brought… Introducing New Zoo ...
Bolivian River Dolphins
Dr. Ellen Bronson will speak on her experience with an effort to rescue and translocate a group of Bolivian river dolphins while collecting priceless information on this endangered species. Please click this link to join the webinar: https://marylandzoo-org.zoom.us/j/87252139401 No registration needed! Just click the link above to join on the day of ...
Reticulated Giraffe
Giraffes live in eastern, central and southern Africa. They range across savannah, grasslands, and open woods in search of trees – especially their favorite, acacias – to feed upon. The Maryland Zoo has several reticulated giraffes, one of nine recognized subspecies of giraffe. Giraffes travel in loose, informal herds and are not territorial ...
Maryland Zoo Welcomes New Addition to Sitatunga Herd
The Maryland Zoo in Baltimore is welcoming its newest baby, a male sitatunga calf born on Sunday, September 10, 2017. The calf, which has been named Marcus, was born to four-year-old Mousse and sired by one-year-old Chopper. He currently weighs seventeen pounds and is quite healthy. “The baby is nursing well, and Mousse has been very attentive to his ...
Blue Duiker
Blue duikers live throughout central, eastern, and southern Africa. They inhabit a wide variety of forest and woodlands, including lowland rainforest, gallery forest, coastal scrub farmland, dense thicket, and montane forest. Blue duikers are forest antelope that spend most of their time foraging for fruit and other plant materials to eat. They are most ...
Eastern or Red-spotted Newt
Eastern or red-spotted newts live in forested parts of eastern North America, in or near swamps, streams, ponds, and small pools of fresh water. At the Maryland Zoo in Baltimore, visitors can see eastern newts in the Cave exhibit of the Maryland Wilderness. Eastern newts are most active during the warmer months of the year, and are often found ...