A Smithsonian National Zoo Photoblog

I went to the Maryland Zoo in Baltimore, MD last weekend with the FONZ photo club and met some new friends. The Maryland Zoo, while smaller and with less variety than the National Zoo, was still pretty interesting as they have a very nice African safari setup there.

Some of the more popular animals there were the elephants because of the new baby, Samson, who is around 3 months old or so.


Being that young, Samson still follows his mom around.


Of course, being that young, Samson is also very curious. Here the keeper had put a bucket of stuff just beyond the barrier and he just had to find out what was in it.


While working with the keepers, I got the impression that Samson felt very accomplished here.
"i is in a tire and has a stik!"


Here, I got the impression that the keepers felt very accomplished. For what? I does not know.