Blue-bellied Roller

Blue-bellied rollers are native to western and central Africa, from Senegal to southern Sudan. They live in wooded areas often on the edge of open or recently burned ...

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 ...

African Grey Parrot

African grey parrots are native to west and central Africa.  They inhabit different types of lowland forest, including rainforest, woodlands, and wooded savannah.  They can be ...

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 ...

Eastern Tiger Salamander

Squish is an Eastern tiger salamander, one of three known species of tiger salamanders in the United States. All three species of tiger salamanders get their name from vivid ...

Seba’s Short-Tailed Bat

Seba’s short-tailed bats are one of the only species that you’ll find in the Maryland Wilderness that are not native to the United States. All 10 species of bats found in ...

Okapi

Wild okapi live exclusively in the Ituri Rainforest in northwest Democratic Republic of the Congo in central Africa. The Maryland Zoo has one male okapi on exhibit in ...

Lesser Hedgehog Tenrec

Lesser hedgehog tenrecs live in dry forested areas of southern and southwestern Madagascar. The Maryland Zoo features lesser hedgehog tenrecs among its Animal Ambassadors, ...

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 ...

Coquerel’s Sifaka

Coquerel’s sifaka are one of very few species of sifaka. All sifaka are lemurs, and all lemurs are prosimian primates — which, in a nutshell, means primates more primitive ...

Chimpanzee

Chimpanzees dwell mainly in the tropical rainforest belt of central Africa but are opportunistic enough feeders to survive in other habitats as well. Less dense populations exist ...

Bobcat

Bobcats like Josie and Kilgore get their name from the “bobbed,” stubby look of their tail. They are both typical adult sizes, and guests are often surprised when they see ...