The Year in Review: 2023
With 2024 close on the horizon, 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 2024 has to offer. Now it’s time to take a look back at some of the moments this year brought. Fieldwork in South Africa There’s nothing more ...
Rhino Naming Fundraiser
We recently welcomed two young southern white rhinos to the Zoo. In order to raise funds for the care of these BIG new additions to the African Watering Hole, along with the other 130+ species in our care, we are doing something new. For every $100 donation made to the Zoo below, donors will receive one entry into the naming contest for the chance to ...
Off Exhibit: Every Day is Training Day
No tricks. No performances. There is definitely no monkey business going on. In a zoo, training programs for wildlife are some of the most complex and beneficial parts of daily life for both keepers and animals. Believe it or not, each species gets its own tailor made plan and training specific behaviors can sometimes take weeks, months, even years to ...
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 ...
Black Bears
This special Field Talk will take you into the wild for a discussion of Black Bear conservation efforts. Harry Spiker, Game Mammal Section Leader for Maryland’s Department of Natural Resources, Wildlife & Heritage Service, will speak about the status of wild black bears and his work as Maryland’s lead Black Bear Biologist. Learn what field experts ...
American Badger
The American badger is a North American mammal whose range extends from southern Canada to Mexico. It prefers dry and open terrain with little vegetation, including prairies, plains, and dry grasslands. The Maryland Zoo features an American badger among its Animal Ambassadors, which are introduced to audiences in education programs on and off ...
Pokémon Mornings at the Zoo
BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND! Pokémon Mornings are returning for another wild weekend. There are new species at the Zoo. We didn’t expect them and we don’t know much about them yet, but now that they are here we’ve noticed many Zoo guests searching for them in exhibits around the Zoo. You guessed it, there are Pokémon everywhere — it’s just ...
Off Exhibit: From the Off Exhibit Vault
It’s a new year. What better time to look forward and reflect on the past? In honor of completing 30 episodes of Off Exhibit podcasts we’re taking a look back at one of our more popular topics and revisiting a discussion that happened exactly one year ago at the start of the last new year. We really enjoyed talking training with Animal Training ...
The Maryland Zoo and BGE Partner to Provide Fresh Tree Trimming to Animals
BALTIMORE (August 7, 2018) – BGE’s annual tree trimming program maintains a safe and reliable electric delivery system for customers. But beginning this summer, branches cut from healthy trees will also become part of the menu for the animals at The Maryland Zoo in Baltimore. “BGE employees work every day to maintain quality electric power for ...
Student Questions at Base Camp
questions by students from the Base Camp Discovery Mail Box Answers by Jane Marlow, School Program Instructor Camels are herbivores, meaning they are adapted to eat plants. They are not picky eaters, eating many thorny, dry plants that other animals avoid. This makes them very well-suited for desert life, as food might be hard to find. They can also ...
Giving ZooDay
WHAT IS GIVING ZooDay? We have a day for giving thanks. We have two for getting deals. Now, we have #GivingTuesday, a global day dedicated to giving back. On Tuesday, December 1, 2015, charities, families, businesses, community centers, and students around the world will come together for one common purpose: to celebrate generosity and to ...
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 ...