Red Ruffed Lemur
In the wild, red ruffed lemurs live only in the remote rainforests of northeastern Madagascar. Red ruffed lemurs very rarely descend to the ground. They spend almost all of their time in the high treetops. They live in female-dominated family groups averaging in size from 2 to 16 animals. They are active during the day and spend most of their waking ...
Seba’s Short-Tailed Bat
Seba’s short-tailed bats live in moist evergreen and dry deciduous lowland forests of Central and South America. At the Maryland Zoo in Baltimore, visitors can see Seba’s short-tailed bats in the Maryland Wilderness Cave. They are not native to Maryland, but are similar in size and behavior to some Maryland bat species, and as fruit eaters can ...
Sitatunga
Sitatunga live in secluded, thickly vegetated, muddy swamps and marshes throughout central Africa. See them at the Zoo in the African Journey, across from the flamingos. Sitatunga tend to be solitary animals. Females may form loose herds but males keep to themselves. Sitatunga feed on bulrushes, sedges and leaves of bushes growing in the swamp or near ...
Eastern Tiger Salamander
Eastern tiger salamanders live throughout most of the United States, southern Canada, and eastern Mexico. They range more widely than any other species of salamander in North America. They are currently endangered in Maryland. At the Zoo, you can see tiger salamanders inside the Great Tree in the Maryland Wilderness. They are on exhibit seasonally ...
Panamanian Golden Frog
Panamanian golden frogs are native to the wet rainforests and dry cloud forests of the Cordilleran Mountains that run like a spine through western-central Panama in Central America. At The Maryland Zoo, Panamanian golden frogs are one of our primary conservation species. They are a featured species in the Animal Embassy collection, and can also be seen ...
Bald Eagle
Bald eagles are found across Canada, the United States, and northern Mexico. They typically live in forested areas near rivers, lakes, or marshes where they can find fish. Haines, Alaska prides itself on being home to the largest concentration of bald eagles in the world. Bald eagles also live in Maryland year round, mostly along the Chesapeake Bay and ...
Blue-winged Teal
Blue-winged teal breed across much of central and northern U.S. and Canada in prairie lands. They are the first ducks to leave the breeding grounds in early fall and the last ones to return, so they have a short time to produce a new generation. Blue-winged teal will migrate great distances, from northern Canada deep into Central and South Americas ...
Corn Snake
Corn snakes live in the eastern United States from southern New Jersey south to Florida and west to Louisiana and parts of Kentucky. They are one of 27 species of snake found in Maryland, but are more common further south. They inhabit meadowlands and wooded groves, especially sandy pine and scrub oak woods. At The Maryland Zoo, corn snakes can be seen ...
Eastern Hognose Snake
Eastern hognose snakes are native to eastern North America from southern Canada, the Great Lakes region, and New England south to Florida. They prefer woodlands with sandy soil, fields, farmland, and coastal areas. At the Zoo, you can see hognose snakes inside the Giant Tree in the Maryland Wilderness. Hognose snakes are active during the day. They ...
Ostrich
Wild ostriches live in Africa’s savannahs and semi-arid Sahel region. They once populated parts of the Middle East but were hunted to extinction there by the mid 20th century. They are located in the African Journey area of the Zoo, next to the flamingos. Ostriches graze alongside other large herbivores such as zebra and antelope. The Maryland Zoo ...
Trumpeter Swan
Trumpeter swans once nested across most of North America but are now found only in isolated areas of the northwest and north-central regions of the continent. They are native to both the United States and Canada. Biologists currently recognize three distinct populations: the Pacific Coast population, the Rocky Mountain population, and the Interior ...
Von der Decken Hornbill
Von der Decken hornbills are found across eastern Africa from central and eastern Tanzania, throughout Kenya, and into southeastern Ethiopia and Somalia. They favor the open bush and scrubby woodlands of dry savanna and arid steppe. At the Zoo, Von der Deckens can be seen in the African Aviary along the Safari Boardwalk. Von der Deckens are active ...