Bronx Zoo

A snow leopard (Panthera uncia), photographed at the Bronx Zoo.
An nyala (Tragelaphus angasii), photographed at the Bronx Zoo.
A grizzly bear (Ursus arctos horribilis), photographed at the Bronx Zoo.
A lowland gorilla (Gorilla gorilla), photographed at the Bronx Zoo.
A Wolf's guenon (Cercopithecus wolfi), photographed at the Bronx Zoo.
A gorilla (Gorilla gorilla), photographed at the Bronx Zoo.
A gorilla (Gorilla gorilla), photographed at the Bronx Zoo.
A spotted hyena (Crocuta crocuta), photographed at the Bronx Zoo.
An ebony langur (Trachypithecus auratus), photographed at the Bronx Zoo.
A ring-tailed lemur (Lemur catta), photographed at the Bronx Zoo.
A California sea lion pup (Zalophus californianus), photographed at the Bronx Zoo.
A lowland gorilla (Gorilla gorilla), photographed at the Bronx Zoo.
A dwarf mongoose (Helogale parvula), photographed at the Bronx Zoo.
Spider monkeys + Jello = good times at the Bronx Zoo
tags: Bronx Zoo, Wildlife Conservation Society, NYC Life, economic hardships Asia Entrance to the Bronx Zoo. Image: Stavenn/Wikipedia. New York City's Bronx Zoo, the largest metropolitan wildlife preserve in the United States, is being hit hard by the economy. To prevent a $15 million budget shortfall, zoo officials are closing four exhibits and evicting all their occupants, estimated to number in the hundreds of animals. Zoo officials admitted in a New York City Cultural Affairs Committee meeting today that they are forced to relocate the suddenly homeless deer, bats, foxes, antelopes…
Concerned that their male red bird of paradise, Paprika, might turn off female companions by repeating human words he learned from visitors, animal keeper Patti Cooper took matters into her own hands. First she crafted a sexy female red bird of paradise puppet, dubbed "Spice Girl." Then she convinced Paprika to call Spice Girl on a 900 number. Now Paprika is engaged in the right behaviors and the Bronx Zoo is making $2.99 for the first minute and $16.99 for each additional minute. No but for real, the bird got it on with a puppet... and is now displaying the proper courtship behaviors.…
Many people collect baseball cards, stamps, coins, comic books, rocks, fossils or nutcrackers. I believe I have opened up a whole new field of nerd-dom with my zoo and aquarium shot glass collection. Given that it is the only zoo and aquarium shot glass collection I know of, I have also decided it is the world's largest. In no particular order, I currently have shot glasses from the San Diego Zoo, Newport Aquarium, Cincinnati Zoo, Knoxville Zoo, Ripley's Aquarium of the Smokies, Tennessee Aquarium, New York Aquarium, Smithsonian National Zoo, Bronx Zoo, New England Aquarium, Georgia Aquarium…
This is Zeff, one of the Amur (or Siberian) Tigers (Panthera tigris altaica) at the Bronx Zoo. She may look rather fierce in the above photo, but actually it's not so much a picture of a snarl but a yawn. The picture below directly preceded the one above, although somehow it isn't quite as impressive as the shot taken a split second after it;
The WCS-run Bronx Zoo is one of my most favorite places to visit, their Snow Leopards (Panthera uncia) making a visit worthwhile in and of itself. While you may hear "George" the lion roaring or any of the many tigers resident at the zoo calling to each other, they are veritable chatterboxes compared to Snow Leopards, which don't roar despite possessing the proper vocal equipment like other big cats. Such silence was part of the reason for placing the Snow Leopard within it's own genus, Uncia, but it now seems that the Himalayan cats really do belong within Panthera although their exact…