Maryland Zoo: Herp Highlights!

 When the Maryland Zoo underwent it's "dark days of the fiscal soul" during the early years of the current millennium, it closed it's Reptile House and sent off most of the animals to other AZA zoos and aquariums.  Over the intervening years, the zoo has established and upgraded habitats for various reptile and amphibian species at various locations across the campus from the Maryland Wilderness to the Chimpanzee Forest on the other side of the zoo.  Here are some of the images I captured of these amazing animals today.

STRIPED MUD TURTLE

Kinosternon baurii

Conservation Status: LEAST CONCERNED

SOUTHERN COPPERHEAD

Agkistrodon c. contortrix

Conservation Status: LEAST CONCERNED

WOOD TURTLE

Glyptemys insculpta

Conservation Status: ENDANGERED

SPOTTED TURTLE

Clemmys guttata

Conservation Status: ENDANGERED

GRAY TREE FROG

Dryophytes versicolor

Conservation Status: LEAST CONCERNED

CORN SNAKE

Pantherophis guttatus

Conservation Status: LEAST CONCERNED

EASTERN BOX TURTLE

Terrapene c. carolina

Conservation Status:Conservation Status: VULNERABLE

SULCATA TORTOISE

Centrochelys sulcata

Conservation Status: ENDANGERED

LEOPARD TORTOISE

Stigmochelys pardalis

Conservation Status: LEAST CONCERNED