Catoctin Wildlife Preserve and Zoo
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.
| Date opened | 1966 |
|---|---|
| Location | Thurmont, Maryland, United States |
| Coordinates | 39.590642°N 77.430739°W |
| Land area | 100 acres (40 ha)[1] |
| No. of animals | 450+ |
| Website | catoctinwildlifepreserve |
The preserve features safari truck rides that let visitors touch and feed large herbivores in a wooded setting.
History
Animals have been exhibited at this location since 1933, when it was known as Jungleland Snake Farm.[2] Owner Gordon Gaver operated the small attraction (approx. 5 acres) until his death in 1964.[3] The facility was then purchased by Richard and Mary Anne Hahn[4] and reopened in 1966. The Hahn family maintained ownership and gradually enlarged the park.
Safari ride
Africa area
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
Madagascar area
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
Free-roaming animals
Education program animals
- African hedgehog
- Chinchilla
- American alligator
Notes
- * temporarily off exhibit
- "About Us". cwpzoo.com. Catocin Wildlife Preserve. Retrieved 24 September 2011.
- Solomon, Mary Jane (1995-08-11). "CATOCTIN ZOO: ANOTHER ANIMAL ALTOGETHER". Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved 2021-05-29.
- Staff, Karen Gardner News-Post. "We grew up in a zoo!". The Frederick News-Post. Retrieved 2021-05-29.
- Magazine, Frederick (2013-07-13). "Q&A: Richard Hahn". Frederick Magazine. Retrieved 2021-05-29.
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