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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