City Minute: What’s Happening at the Zoo

SALISBURY, Md. – In this week’s City Minute, WMDT’s John Trout and Director of the Salisbury Zoo Chuck Eicholz discuss what’s going on at the Zoo this August.

Eicholz says work is still underway on the Zoo’s newest coati exhibit. The four-year project began taking shape this June, and may be completed sooner than expected. Families visiting the Zoo may notice the closure of the ocelot and tamarin exhibits nearby as construction continues.

Admission remains free at the Zoo, with the site operating daily from 9:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. — with an exception of closing on Christmas and Thanksgiving.

And those looking for an extra special reason to visit the Zoo should mark their calendars for Wednesday, Aug. 19 at 11:00 a.m. Zoo officials will be joined by The Outpost, a project led by Deborah Scott, who shares the story of her grandfather, Thomas E. Polk, a local man who became a Buffalo Soldier. The Buffalo Soldiers were the first all-Black regular regiments in the U.S. Army and later served as some of America’s first park rangers.

Eicholz notes that after you visit for the lecture, be sure to stop by the Zoo’s buffalo cousin — the bison! Two of them inhabit the enclosure next to the prairie dogs.

If you’d like to find more events happening at the Zoo, check out their website here.