Zoo of Maryland in Baltimore #4

Stop #4 @ the Zoo of Maryland in Baltimore. The African Penguin Enclosure.

 The Zoo of Maryland is well known for it's African Penguin conservation activities. It is the home of about 50 or 25 breeding pairs. It's current reinvention is the creation of a new state-of-the-art African Penguin enclosure. Recently listed as endangered, this exhibit will double the zoo's population to a colony of 100. Here you see the construction on the future enclosure and the animals in the old one. An enclosure where penguins share space with cormorants. The new space will include a generous location for a colony of flamingoes, too.

 AFRICAN PENGUIN

  AFRICAN PENGUIN

 AFRICAN PENGUIN and COMORANTS