Alpaca dies after flooding at Salisbury Zoo in MD

all weekend. but as 47 a-b-c’s lili zheng reports — a lot of work still needs to be done before doors are open to the public. track 1 fallen trees — mud and debris covering pathways. this is the aftermath — after flooding in salisbury and along the wicomico river last week. 22:39:28 we have employees who have worked here 30 plus years and no one can really remember flooding to this extent 34 track 2 flooding — roughly knee deep — according to ralph piland. the dictor of the salisbury zoo — tells 47 a-b-c his staff spent the weekend and monday cleaning out buildings affected by high waters. plus — returning animals from the zoo’s health facility and back into their exhibits. mary seemann — marketing and development associate for the salisbury zoo — says alpacas were among the most vulnerable during the flood. their exhibit is one of the closest to the river. we lost one alpaca. we believe it got hypothermia and we’re still waiting for the necropsy but keepers did all they could track 3 but even with the water receded by monday — piland says there’s still work to be done. the thing that concerned us the most once it appeared that the water level was stable were what was happening with the trees. we had a tree come down on our perimeter fence near our deer exhibit and we had a large tree come down by our burrowing owl exhibit track 4 while it’s too soon to put an exact dollar amount on the damage to the zoo — piland says he’s thankful it’s more about cleaning rather than fixing. lili zheng, 47 a-b-c. according to the zoo — there are no specific donation items they are in need of right now. but — anyone who is interested in becoming one their zoo members — is welcome. and staying in wicomico county – the dates for two homecoming