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The Catoctin Wildlife Preserve and Zoo is home to a wide variety of animals, from pythons to panthers, lemurs to llamas, boasa to bears, monkeys to macaws.

There’s animals from the alligator to the zebra, providing a chance for nearly everyone to see an animal that interests them in the fifty-acre zoological park. The Catoctin Wildlife Preserve and Zoo also contains more interactive feed and touch opportunities with animals than any of the other animal parks within the region, including touching a tortoise shell or the fur of a chinchilla and getting up close and personal with zebra, ostrich, and camels.

Catoctin Wildlife Preserve and Zoo, 13019 Catoctin Furnace Rd, Thurmont, MD 21788, Phone: 301-271-3180

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