The Maryland Zoo

The Baltimore Zoo was created by act of the Maryland state legislature on April 7, 1876. (Its name was changed to The Maryland Zoo in Baltimore in 2004.) The Zoo is the third oldest zoo in the United States, behind Philadelphia (1873) and Cincinnati (1874). The Maryland Zoo is home currently to 46 endangered penguins, and proud to be one of the largest and most successful African penguin breeding colonies in all of North America.