18 Facts About Bronx Zoo

Bronx Zoo is a zoo within Bronx Park in the Bronx, New York.

Bronx Zoo opened on November 8,1899, featuring 843 animals in 22 exhibits.

Today, the Bronx Zoo is world-renowned for its large and diverse animal collection, and its award-winning exhibitions.

Bronx Zoo was one of the few in the world to exhibit proboscis monkeys outside of Southeast Asia and, in the 1976 International Bronx Zoo Yearbook, the zoo reported having eight monkeys, seven of which were born at the zoo.

Bronx Zoo lived in the Zoo Center until her death in December 2005 in her 30s.

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Bronx Zoo has two types of displays: free exhibits accessible with a General Admission ticket, and premium exhibits which require additional fees.

Bronx Zoo Center, built in 1908, is a one-story Beaux-Arts building located in Astor Court.

Original Children's Zoo in the Bronx Zoo opened in 1941 with a nursery-rhyme theme; in 1981, a new Children's Zoo opened, and was instantly successful, seeing almost 250,000 visitors in two months.

In 2005, the zoo sent the frozen sperm of a male Indian rhinoceros to the Cincinnati Bronx Zoo where, four years later in 2009, it was thawed out and used in the first successful artificial insemination of the species when a calf was born in late 2010.

Bronx Zoo then handed over the male cub to Pakistani authorities to care for him.

Bronx Zoo later told police that he wanted to be "one with the gorillas".

Bronx Zoo was removed by zookeepers and police before he could sustain any injuries.

Bronx Zoo had petted the 400-pound animal and wanted to be "one with the tiger".

On March 26,2011, the Bronx Zoo announced that World of Reptiles was closed after a venomous adolescent cobra was discovered missing from its off-exhibit enclosure on March 25.

Bronx Zoo officials were confident the missing cobra would be found in the building and not outside, since the species is known to be uncomfortable in open areas.

Bronx Zoo has since lived without the company of other elephants.

Lawsuit against the Bronx Zoo, stating that Happy was legally "a person with a right to be free", was dismissed in February 2020 by a judge of the Bronx County Supreme Court.

Bronx Zoo became fond of an orangutan named Dohong, "the presiding genius of the Monkey House", who had been taught to perform tricks and imitate human behavior.