Catoctin Wildlife Preserve and Zoo facts for kids
| Location | Thurmont, Maryland, United States |
|---|---|
| Land area | 100 acres (40 ha) |
| Coordinates | 39°35′26″N 77°25′51″W / 39.590642°N 77.430739°W |
| No. of animals | 450+ |
The Catoctin Wildlife Preserve is a 100-acre (40 ha) zoo and wildlife preserve (25 acres (10 ha) are accessible to the public) located on Maryland Route 806 in Thurmont, Maryland, United States.
The preserve features safari truck rides that let visitors touch and feed large herbivores in a wooded setting.
Contents
Safari ride
*American bison
- Emu
- Boer goat
- Fallow deer
- Dromedary
- Mouflon
- Llama
- Yak
- Scimitar-horned oryx
- Sicilian donkey
- Greater kudu
- Suri alpaca
- Greater rhea
- Common eland*Grant's zebra
- Red-necked ostrich
- Mozambique blue ostrich
- Somali ostrich
- Watusi
- Waterbuck*Reticulated giraffe*Bactrian camel
- Dama gazelle
Africa area
*Nigerian Dwarf goat
- African pygmy goat
- Northern ground hornbill*Amur leopard
- Leopard tortoise
- Warthog
- Aoudad
Eurasia area
*Snow leopard
- Meerkat
- Green anaconda
- Reticulated python
- Yellow anaconda
- African rock python*Morelet's crocodile
- African sacred ibis
- Ruddy shelduck*African spurred tortoise
- Galápagos tortoise
- Andean goose
- Red-crowned crane
- Koi
- Suri alpaca
- Jacobs four-horned sheep
- Angora goat
- Koklass pheasant
- Egyptian vulture
- Indian blue peafowl
- North American turkey
- Moloch gibbon
Australia area
*Red-footed tortoise
- Magpie goose
- Red kangaroo
- Red-necked wallaby
- Emu
- Salmon-crested cockatoo
- Goffin
- Rose-breasted cockatoo
- Australian shelduck
- Budgie
- Laughing kookaburra
- Black swan
- Maned goose
- Eurasian shelduck
- Dingo
- Green tree python
- Mertens' water monitor*Solomon Islands skink
- Olive python
- Spotted python*Australian blue-tongued skink
- Serrated snapping turtle*Woma
- Fly River turtle
- Double-wattled cassowary
Latin America area
*Jaguar
- Aldabra tortoise
- Boat billed heron
- Two-toed sloth
- Crested screamer
- Red-rumped agouti
- Quaker parrot
- Sun conure
- Hawk headed parrot
- Red-eared slider
- Andean condor
- Capybara
- Seba's short-tailed bat
- Egyptian fruit bat
Madagascar area
*Madagascar tree boa
- Trumpeter hornbill
- Vasa parrot
- Barbary falcon
- African pied crow
- Paradise shelduck
- Runt pigeon
- Eclectus parrot
- Silver pheasant
- Asiatic golden pheasant
- African speckled pigeon
- Black-and-white ruffed lemur
North America area
*Marabou stork
- American alligator
- Barred owl
- Collared peccary
- American alligator
- Greater siren
- Timber rattlesnake
- Eastern diamondback rattlesnake
- Western massasauga rattlesnake
- Northern copperhead
- Cottonmouth
- Mexican beaded lizard
- Gila monster
- Black ratsnake
- Yellow ratsnake
- Bullsnake
- Louisiana pine snake
- Rosy boa
- Sinaloan milksnake
- Scarlet mountain kingsnake
- False map turtle
- Mississippi map turtle
- Loggerhead musk turtle
- Western hognose snake
- Desert tortoise
- Rhinoceros iguana
- California quail
- Corn snake
- Mountain coati
- Arctic wolf
Islands area
*Tonkean macaque
- Binturong
- Olive baboon
- Hyacinth macaw
- Black-bellied whistling duck
- White-faced whistling duck
- Blue-and-yellow macaw
- Red-and-green macaw
- Scarlet macaw
- Military macaw
- Great horned owl
- African pied crow
- White eared pheasant
- Booted macaque
- Sun bear
- Iranian sheep
- Gaboon viper
- Crocodile monitor
- Tentacled snake
- Boomslang
- Eyelash palm pit viper
- Western green mamba
- South American bushmaster
- Albino monocled cobra
- King cobra
- Lady Amherst's pheasant
- Greater argus
- Blue-bellied roller
Fishes
Free-roaming animals
*Canada goose
- Chinese goose
- Bar-headed goose
- Greylag goose
Education program animals
*African hedgehog
- * temporarily off exhibit
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