Saturday, September 15, 2018

Maryland Zoo: Chimpanzee Forest

I think that the Maryland Zoo's Chimpanzee Forest with it's large exterior habitat and interior spaces shared by both the Chimpanzee's and other primates in it's collection is adequate.  However, I would love to see it develop the area in front of the building and leading in the direction of the Giraffe House with exterior habitats and overhead passageways that would accommodate the Black and White Colobus Monkeys and other lesser primates with options to be outside.  As it is there are a trio of very stylish large cage enclosures where some of them can hand out, but they don't provide unhindered ways to observe the animals (i.e. without metal meshing between them and the human guests.

The other primates include: Black and White Colobus Monkeys from Africa, and three species indigenous to Madagascar: Ring-tailed Lemurs, Red Ruffed Lemurs, and Coquerel's Sifakas.  The troop of Chimpanzees numbers 11.




 The male of the trio of Coquerel's Sifaka.  They are quite the most attractive of animals.  The Maryland Zoo's Sifakas are a family unit.  The offspring was born 2015 to Gratian and Anastasia.  The pair has been very successful at breeding with 5 healthy births to their credit.

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