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The Maryland Zoo in Baltimore, formerly known as the Baltimore Zoo, was founded in 1876 by the state government. In 2004, the facility changed its name after it received an emergency aid package from the state. The third oldest zoo in the United States, the Maryland Zoo is located in Baltimore's Druid Hill Park and covers more than 160 acres. The zoo's property is owned by Baltimore City and leased to the state, and the zoo has been operated by the Zoological Society since 1984. The zoo has more than 1,500 birds, mammals, amphibians and reptiles. The Maryland Zoo also participates in a number of conservation projects, including a breeding program to help increase the population of the state'...
The Maryland Zoo in Baltimore, formerly known as the Baltimore Zoo, was founded in 1876 by the state government. In 2004, the facility changed its name after it received an emergency aid package from the state. The third oldest zoo in the United States, the Maryland Zoo is located in Baltimore's Druid Hill Park and covers more than 160 acres. The zoo's property is owned by Baltimore City and leased to the state, and the zoo has been operated by the Zoological Society since 1984. The zoo has more than 1,500 birds, mammals, amphibians and reptiles. The Maryland Zoo also participates in a number of conservation projects, including a breeding program to help increase the population of the state's insect, the Baltimore checkerspot butterfly. Exhibits at the zoo include an African black-footed penguin colony, a polar bear watch and the Maryland Wilderness, which includes a children's zoo. Annual events at the zoo include breakfasts with different animals, Halloween activities (which commence with an elephant pumpkin smash), a reggae and brew festival, a marathon, an Easter Egg hunt, a beer and wine festival, sleepovers at the zoo and Zoomerang, the zoo's annual black-tie fundraiser.
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Millionaire's mansion now shelters homeless
The Mount Vernon house spent decades as one of several 19th-century millionaires' mansions. But in the last 25 years, the Patrick Allison House has found another mission.
Once a church office, it is now a sanctuary for the homeless where a neighboring...Tags: Condos and Houses, Roland Park, Substance Abuse, Prisons, Rentals
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10 Spot: Fri.-Sun.: Winter Festival of Wonders
View the photo gallery for all of this week's picksTags: The Muppets (movie), Highlandtown, Matt Porterfield, Rusko (music group), HIV
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Maryland Zoo leopard predicts spring is on the way
Punxsutawney Phil saw his shadow Thursday, a sure sign that winter will continue for six more weeks.
Amari, the Maryland Zoo's spotted leopard, disagreed.
And the law of the jungle says leopard trumps groundhog every time.
For the second year in a row,...Tags: Meatballs, Punxsutawney Phil (groundhog)
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Attractions opening late, some events canceled
The Baltimore SunThe wintry mix that continues to fall around Baltimore has caused cancellations and delays in some planned Saturday activities. -Baltimore's finance department has cancelled a budget workshop scheduled by Mayor Stephanie Rawlings Blake at the Cylburn...Tags: Port Discovery Children's Museum, Baltimore Museum of Art
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Ravens mascots Rise and Conquer get day off Sunday
Two key members of the Baltimore Ravens will rest instead of attending Sunday's AFC Championship game against the New England Patriots in Foxborough.
Breathe easy, Ravens fans, it's not Ray Rice or Ed Reed.
Instead Ravens mascots Rise and Conquer will...Tags: Baltimore Ravens, Ed Reed, Recreational and Sporting Goods Industry, Ray Rice, Houston Texans
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Martin Luther King Jr. Day schedule and closings
This schedule will be in effect Monday: Government offices Closed in Anne Arundel, Baltimore, Carroll, Harford, Howard and Frederick counties, and in Baltimore City and Annapolis. Courts Closed in Anne Arundel, Baltimore, Carroll, Harford, Howard...Tags: Annapolis, Walters Art Museum, Martin Luther King Day, Museums, National Aquarium Baltimore
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State, localities prepared for first storm of year
The Baltimore Sun
As state and local highway crews braced for the first storm of the new year, they took comfort in the fact that their budgets have plenty of money to handle it — and more.
Mild weather has kept the region's plows idle, salt sheds...Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Anne Arundel County, Snow Storms, Carroll County (Maryland), Salt
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Retired lab chimps deserve better
The recommendations from the Institute of Medicine to largely end chimpanzee research are a huge step forward ("End chimp research, panel urges," Dec. 16). However, these recommendations do not have any teeth as they are not enforceable. It is necessary... -
Christmas schedule and closings
This schedule will be in effect Monday, Dec. 26: County offices Government offices, courts and libraries: Closed in Anne Arundel, Baltimore, Carroll, Frederick, Harford and Howard counties. (Offices in Howard closed Dec. 26-Jan. 2). Parking meters...Tags: Howard County, Port Discovery Children's Museum, Arts, Walters Art Museum, Frederick (Frederick, Maryland)
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The Wall of the Wild
In the bright sunlight of a late November Saturday, Maryland Institute College of Art sophomore Colleen Collins was keeping company with a 12-foot-tall lion.
The 2009 River Hill High School graduate is a painter. Her latest — and certainly her...Tags: High Blood Pressure, Ethics, Migraine, Health Treatments, Hospitals and Clinics
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City building bike trail to connect Penn Station and Inner Harbor
About 16 months from now, bicyclists will be able to ride from the Inner Harbor to Pennsylvania Station on a smooth path all their own.
Little by little, crews working in the shadow of the Jones Falls Expressway are inching their way north, building a...Tags: Commuting, Baltimore County, Jones Falls Expressway, Jones Falls, Druid Hill
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