Bronx Zoo
| Bronx Zoo | ||
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| Full name | International Wildlife Conservation Park | |
| surface | 107 hectares | |
| opening | 1899 | |
| Animal species | 765 | |
| Individuals | 4,300 animals | |
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 Asia Gate entrance |
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Coordinates: 40 ° 51 ′ 2.1 " N , 73 ° 52 ′ 31.4" W.
The Bronx Zoo , full name International Wildlife Conservation Park , is a zoological garden in New York . When it opened in 1899, the zoo had 843 animals. Nowadays the park is home to more than 4,300 animals belonging to 765 different species in a natural environment. The Bronx Zoo is the largest zoo in New York and the largest city-based zoo in the United States, covering 45 acres . North of the zoo is the New York Botanical Garden .
The division of the animal enclosures was made according to geographical criteria. If you start a clockwise tour at the Rainey Gate Entrance in the north , you will roam the following continents: North America , Asia , Africa and South America . The Bronx Zoo has many species of animals that have become extinct in the wild.
The zoo has a children's zoo with a petting zoo and a playground.
In 1903 the zoo became the first zoo in the western world to acquire a snow leopard . In 1922, the zoo received the first platypus to live in a zoo outside Australia. On August 3, 1937, a male okapi named "Congo" moved into the zoo . It was the first okapi in the USA. It had been bottle- fed by the Catholic missionary Joseph Hutsebaut in Buta . It died on September 5, 1952. In 1938, the zoo received the first giant panda . It was called "Pandora" and died in 1941. The animal was the third giant panda in the USA after Su-lin and Mei-mei in the Chicago Zoo. In 1941, the Chinese government donated the pandas Pan-dee and Pan-dah to the Bronx Zoo as a gift to the Bronx Zoo as thanks for the US-American help in the Second Sino-Japanese War. In August 1981 the first Gaur calf conceived by embryo transfer was born in the zoo .
During the COVID-19 pandemic , the zoo was closed for weeks and attracted attention because a tiger at the zoo tested positive for the coronavirus. It was the first case worldwide in which the virus was detected in a tiger.
See also
Web links
- Website
- Wildlife Conservation Society: Bronx Zoo ( page no longer available , search web archives )
- Congo Gorilla Forest
- Turkmen Markhore - screw goat pulls in New York Zoo Video from Süddeutsche Zeitung Online, accessed on July 30, 2014 ( page no longer available , search in web archives )
Individual evidence
- ^ Snow Leopards. Biodiversity of the World. Conservation from Genes to Landscapes. Amsterdam 2016. p. 319.
- ^ Kurt Kolar: Continent full of curiosities. Animals, people and problems in Australia. Vienna 1965. p. 52.
- ↑ Susan Lyndaker Lindsey et al. a .: The Okapi: Mysterious Animal of Congo-Zaire. Austin 1999. p. 57.
- ↑ Anita Ganeri: Story of the Okapi. Oxford 2016. p. 22.
- ↑ Susan Lyndaker Lindsey et al. a .: The Okapi: Mysterious Animal of Congo-Zaire. Austin 1999. p. 57.
- ^ William Bridges: Gathering of Animals. An Unconventional History of the New York Zoological Society. New York 1974. p. 354.
- ↑ Fanny Lai / Bjorn Olesen: A Visual Celebration of Giant Pandas. Singapore 2012. p. 17.
- ↑ Fanny Lai / Bjorn Olesen: A Visual Celebration of Giant Pandas. Singapore 2012. p. 17.
- ^ Animal Kingdom. Bulletin of the New York Zoological Society 1937/38. P. 118.
- ↑ Lucy Cooke: The Amazing Truth About Animals. What myths and fallacies reveal about us. Munich 2018.
- ↑ Maja Svilar (Ed.): Man and Animal. Bern 1985. p. 148.
- ↑ https://www.fr.de/panorama/corona-usa-tiger-new-york-zoo-positiv-getestet-zr-13641880.html
- ↑ https://www.nbcboston.com/news/coronavirus/a-tiger-caught-covid-19-that-doesnt-mean-your-cat-will-infect-you-with-the-coronavirus/2103392/