The Giraffe House is currently closed for Kipi and her calf.
Penguin Chicks Coming Soon – African Penguin Breeding Season Update
If you see Penguin Coast this fall, you may think the island, normally bustling with 70+ penguins, looks a bit tamer than usual. Don’t let appearances fool you, though. Behind-the-scenes in the nest room, things are anything but mellow. It’s penguin breeding season! More than a dozen pairs in the Zoo’s colony are recommended by the African ...
Baby Chimpanzee Debuts at the Maryland Zoo
[button]Watch Lola's name reveal![/button] BALTIMORE, MD – The newest and tiniest member of The Maryland Zoo’s chimpanzee troop made her debut on Friday, July 19. The two-week-old female chimpanzee and her 29-year-old mother, Bunny, were introduced to the indoor portion the Zoo’s Chimpanzee Forest after spending the past two weeks bonding ...
Oiled Wildlife Response as a Paraprofessional Partner
Originally published in Tri-state Oil Programs Oiled Wildlife Log Volume 5. To subscribe to Tri-State’s Oiled Wildlife Log, please email oilprograms@tristatebird.org by Andrew Judson, Maryland Zoo Commissary Keeper & Tri-State Paraprofessional Hi there! My name is Andrew Judson and I am currently a keeper in the Commissary Department at ...
Journal: Dolphin Rescue in Bolivia
The endangered Bolivian river dolphin, Inia boliviensis, faces a number of natural and man-made threats to its very existence. This past August, Dr. Ellen Bronson, the Zoo's Sr. Director of Animal Health, Conservation, and Research, made her second dolphin rescue trip to Bolivia - this time to relocate a pod of dolphins that swam into a shallow irrigation ...
Southern White Rhinoceros
There are two subspecies of white rhino. Southern white rhinos live almost exclusively in the country of South Africa. Northern white rhinos were formerly found in several countries in east and central Africa but are now critically endangered, teetering on the brink of extinction, with less than a handful living in a Kenyan wildlife reserve. Both ...
Sandhill Crane
Most sandhill cranes migrate between northern breeding grounds in the U.S., Canada and Alaska and southern wintering grounds in the U.S. and northern Mexico. Three sub-populations of sandhill crane living in Mississippi, Florida, and Cuba respectively are known to be non-migratory. These large and elegant birds are always found near water in open grassland ...
Penguin Construction Update – January 28th
The weather has been frigid and frosty, not unusual for January, but despite the snow and storms construction continues on site of the Zoo’s new African Penguin Exhibit. The Whiting-Turner team has made the best of what mother nature has had to offer and are working on all aspects of building construction that they can during what has been a fairly ...
Maryland Zoo Announces Arrival of Two Coquerel’s Sifaka
BALTIMORE, MD – The Maryland Zoo in Baltimore today announced the arrival of two Coquerel’s sifaka (Propithecus coquereli). This marks the return of the endangered lemur species to the zoo, which has not had sifaka since 2021. Sifaka, which is pronounced “shi-FOCK,” are named after their distinctive alarm call. They have a unique brown and ...
Leopard
Leopards live in more diverse habitats than any other mammal except man and some rodents. While there is only one species of leopard, there are nine sub-species spread across Africa and Asia. Leopards are found in most of sub-Saharan Africa, eastward to the Arabian peninsula, and throughout southwest Asia to India, China, and Russia’s Far East. The ...
Lesser Kudu
Lesser kudu live in dry, densely thicketed scrub and woodlands of northern east Africa. To see them at the Maryland Zoo, walk along the African Journey Boardwalk. Females tend to live in small groups of two or three, plus their offspring. Adult males, called bulls, are generally solitary. They leave their mothers after 1.5 to 2 years to be on their ...
Eastern Box Turtle
There are 6 subspecies of box turtle, four native to the United States and two native to Mexico. The Eastern box turtle, T. carolina carolina, inhabits the eastern and central United States from southern Maine to Florida and west into Michigan, Illinois, eastern Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas. Box turtles prefer habitat from open fields to wooded or ...
Red Crested Pochard
Red-crested pochards have an extensive but scattered range that includes parts of North Africa as well as Europe, the Middle East, Russia, India, and much of Asia. This species of duck seeks quiet waters such as inland lakes, slow-flowing rivers, and large lagoons with protective vegetation. While migrating or over-wintering, it also may roost and feed in ...