Maryland Wilderness Featuring The Children's Zoo
Displaying animals found in Maryland, visitors can watch otters swim over their heads, jump across lily pads, explore a cave, or climb into giant bird nests.
- The Bog: features the Bog Turtle, an endangered species.
- Marsh Aviary & Lily Pads: surrounds a man-made stream featuring many species of ducks and other Maryland birds.
- The Stream: includes river otters and red fox. You can visit a submerged archway, and watch as otters swim overhead.
- The Cave: a beautifully sculpted life-size model of a cave, featuring more than a dozen small exhibits including snakes, bats, and newts.
- Giant Tree & Slide: features many native reptiles and amphibians animals, mainly snakes. The slide is a fun way for kids to get back to the ground.
- Meadow: has animals such as box turtles and American toads. Kids can poke their heads in large bubble-like windows coming out of the ground.
- The Farmyard: features a variety of rare domestic breeds that can be touched; the highlight is a petting area of friendly African pygmy goats and Nubian goats called "The Kid Zone" because young goats are called kids and it also attracts children. Other animals included in the section include Jacob Sheep, Donkey, Barn Owl, Chicken, Geese, Pig, and Dexter Cattle.
The Maryland Wilderness featuring The Children's Zoo is dedicated to Lyn P. Meyerhoff.
A zoo train operated as recently as 2005, with a replacement train under construction as of early 2010.
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“The child grew and became strong in spirit, and he was in the wilderness until the day he appeared publicly to Israel.”
—Bible: New Testament, Luke 1:80.
“Nevertheless, no school can work well for children if parents and teachers do not act in partnership on behalf of the children’s best interests. Parents have every right to understand what is happening to their children at school, and teachers have the responsibility to share that information without prejudicial judgment.... Such communication, which can only be in a child’s interest, is not possible without mutual trust between parent and teacher.”
—Dorothy H. Cohen (20th century)
“...there was the annual Fourth of July picketing at Independence Hall in Philadelphia. ...I thought it was ridiculous to have to go there in a skirt. But I did it anyway because it was something that might possibly have an effect. I remember walking around in my little white blouse and skirt and tourists standing there eating their ice cream cones and watching us like the zoo had opened.”
—Martha Shelley, U.S. author and social activist. As quoted in Making History, part 3, by Eric Marcus (1992)