In the 1940s at the Bronx Zoo’s Children Zoo, guinea pigs experienced the life of medieval royalty. The guinea pigs had their very own castle, complete with a moat and drawbridge.
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William Beebe, the first curator of Ornithology at the Bronx Zoo and founder of WCS’s Department of Tropical Research, was born on this day in 1877. He’s photographed here in Venezuela where the DTR took part in three expeditions between 1945 and 1948.
We’re celebrating zoo keepers past and present for National Zookeeper Week! Bronx Zoo keeper Fred Martini and a California Sea Lion together in 1946.
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Happy World Snake Day! This Ball Python from 1925 made itself cozy inside a Bronx Zoo keeper’s hat.
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Gars and Sturgeon at the New York Aquarium in 1916 photographed by Elwin Sanborn, who was the staff photographer for WCS at the time.
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This week in 1999, the Congo Gorilla Forest opened at the Bronx Zoo. This illustration by Jack Unruh was on the invitation for the Opening Day ceremony. Since it opened, 7 million visitors have visited the exhibit, which allows zoo guests to donate their admission fees to WCS field conservation efforts in Central Africa. The exhibit has raised more than $10.6 million, which has gone directly to fund the conservation of Central Africa’s Congo Basin rainforest and wildlife. A happy 20 Year Anniversary to the exhibit!
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In celebration of World Giraffe Day, here are an adult and a baby giraffe at the Bronx Zoo in 1982.
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Happy Father’s Day! Here are a lion and his cub hanging out at the African Plains exhibit at the Bronx Zoo in 1968.
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For Endangered Species Day, we’re revisiting the story from 1905 when Bronx Zoo director William Hornaday formed the American Bison Society (ABS) to save the species from extinction. The Wildlife Conservation Society continues the fight to save wildlife and wild places.
Learn more about the work of the ABS in this Wild View post. For some information about bison at the Bronx Zoo today, look to this week’s Wild View post.
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Happy Mothers’ Day! Here is a South American Tapir with her young at the Bronx Zoo in 1941.
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