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    The Bronx Zoo (also historically the Bronx Zoological Park and the Bronx Zoological Gardens) is a zoo within Bronx Park in the Bronx, New York. It is one...
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  • Bronx Zoo may refer to: The Bronx Zoo, an urban zoo in New York City The Bronx Zoo (book), book about the New York Yankees by Sparky Lyle The Bronx Zoo...
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  • Penelope (platypus) (category Animals exhibited in zoos)
    Penelope (disappeared July 1957) was a platypus at the Bronx Zoo known for faking a pregnancy and abandoning her mate, Cecil. In 1947, when she and two...
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    the Bronx Zoo, a much larger, privately operated zoo in the Bronx in 1897. Though wealthy residents hoped that people would travel to the Bronx Zoo for...
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    The Most Dangerous Animal in the World was a 1963 exhibit at the Bronx Zoo in the Bronx, a borough of New York City. It featured a mirror and text describing...
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    the Bronx's area is open space, including Woodlawn Cemetery, Van Cortlandt Park, Pelham Bay Park, the New York Botanical Garden, and the Bronx Zoo in the...
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  • The Bronx Zoo is an American drama television series that was directed by Allan Arkush and Paul Lynch that aired on NBC from March 19, 1987, to June 29...
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    Ota Benga (category Human zoo performers)
    Purchase Exposition in St. Louis, Missouri, and as a human zoo exhibit in 1906 at the Bronx Zoo. Benga had been purchased from native African slave traders...
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    the Egyptian cobra in their reptile collections. On March 26, 2011, the Bronx Zoo informed the public that their reptile house was closed after a venomous...
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    end of The Bronx, where it divides East Bronx from West Bronx, southward through Bronx Park, New York Botanical Garden, and the Bronx Zoo and continues...
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  • The Bronx Zoo: The Astonishing Inside Story of the 1978 World Champion New York Yankees is a nonfiction book written by former Major League Baseball pitcher...
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    Wildlife Conservation Society (category Non-profit organizations based in the Bronx)
    (WCS) is a 501(c)(3) non-governmental organization headquartered at the Bronx Zoo in New York City, that aims to conserve the world's largest wild places...
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    simple accident. Her injury was treated at the Bronx Zoo while a custody dispute between the two zoos broke out in public and elicited a range of opinions...
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    Benga put on display at the Bronx Zoo in New York City alongside apes and other animals. At the behest of Grant, the zoo director William Hornaday placed...
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    York City. Founded in the late 1880s, Bronx Park is the location of the New York Botanical Garden and the Bronx Zoo, which respectively occupy much of the...
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  • Bronx Zoo by David Crockett Graham in 1938, and a second named Pan sent to the Bronx Zoo in 1939.: 92  Besides the two live Pandas sent to the Bronx Zoo...
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    1970s and the bad conditions of the Bronx, led to the Yankees organization and stadium being referred to as the "Bronx Zoo". Despite the turmoil, Jackson hit...
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    Washington, D.C., and the Bronx in New York, which opened in 1847, 1891 and 1899 respectively. Relatively new terms for zoos in the late 20th century are...
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  • the Bronx Zoo and died on January 24, 2011, after residing at the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium. Her father is Sunshine, from the San Francisco Zoo. Binti...
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  • Conservation Society's Bronx Zoo campus. Progeny include offspring Timmy sire with Pattycake (gorilla) who was born at the Central Park Zoo and was the first...
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    (Wildlife Inquiry through Zoo Education), a program developed by Bronx Zoo educators. The volunteer program at the Prospect Park Zoo engages members of the...
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    convicted." It was moments like these that gave the Yankees the nickname "The Bronx Zoo." Martin resigned the next day (some sources have said he was actually...
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  • Zoo; when the singer reaches the zoo, he anthropomorphizes the animals in various amusing ways. The song was licensed in advertisements for the Bronx...
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    February 2021. "Bronx Zoo Debuts Its Baby Okapi". WCSNewsroom. 27 July 2009. Retrieved 19 October 2018. "Baby Okapi Makes Public Debut At Bronx Zoo". newyork...
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    to the Bronx Zoo, the world's largest metropolitan zoo, which covers 265 acres (107 ha) and houses over 6,000 animals. Directly to the zoo's north is...
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    York Botanical Garden and the Wildlife Conservation Society's Bronx Zoo, both inside Bronx Park, collectively occupy dozens of acres of land within the...
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    Society's Bronx Zoo as well as assistant director of the Bronx Zoo. Goss was President of the AZA and twice Vice-President. At the Bronx Zoo, which is...
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    the Los Angeles Dodgers. Lyle co-authored, with Peter Golenbock, The Bronx Zoo, a 1979 tell-all book which chronicled the dissension within the Yankees...
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    at Detroit Zoo and Omaha's Henry Doorly Zoo. In August 2010, a group of 100 Kihansi spray toads were flown from the Bronx Zoo and Toledo Zoo to their native...
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    Zoological Society at the Bronx Zoo. He served as president of the society until 1941. "Wouldn't it be wonderful to have a zoo in San Diego? I believe I'll...
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