African Journey
The largest area of the zoo, the African journey displays a wide range of animals originating from Africa.
Such exhibits include:
- Lappet-faced Vulture, Cranes (Black Crowned and Demoiselle), White Stork, Ground Hornbill and Sitatunga
- African Crested Porcupine
- African Watering Hole: Dama Gazelle, Saddle-billed Stork, Helmeted Guineafowl, White Rhinoceros, Plains Zebra, and Ostrich
- Spur-thighed Tortoise
- African Aviary
- Leopard
- Cheetah
- Warthog
- Kirk's Dik-dik
- Vulturine Guineafowl
- Chimpanzee Forest: Chimpanzee, Colobus Monkey, Rock Hyrax, Coquerel's Sifaka, and Slender-snouted Crocodile.
- Red Ruffed Lemur
- Lion
- Giraffe House & Okapi
- Rock Island: African Black-footed Penguin, Cormorant
- African Elephant
- Camel rides
The zoo features a feeding station where guests may interact with the zoo's three Reticulated Giraffes by feeding them for a small fee.
Renovations on the elephant facility began 2007. In March 2006, the Maryland Zoo announced it would be accepting three female African elephants from the Philadelphia Zoo as part of the expanded elephant exhibit, but construction was then delayed and the elephant loan was canceled. However, two new elephants came to the Maryland Zoo from Arkansas in 2007. On March 19, 2008, Felix, one of the zoo's female elephants, gave birth to a 290-pound male calf, the first elephant born in the zoo's history. The baby is named Samson and is now viewable, weather permitting.
In the spring of 2010, the zoo's warthogs had two male offspring, which were viewable beginning in May of that year.
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