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Ota Benga. Ota Benga (c. 1883[2] – March 20, 1916) was a Mbuti (Congo pygmy) man, known for being featured in an exhibit at the 1904 Louisiana 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 by the explorer Samuel Phillips Verner, [3] a ...
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 of the largest zoos in the United States by area and is the largest metropolitan zoo in the United States by area, [5] comprising 265 acres (107 ha) of park lands and naturalistic habitats separated by the Bronx River.
Pattycake, also known as Patty Cake (September 3, 1972 – March 31, 2013) was a female western lowland gorilla (Gorilla gorilla gorilla) born to Lulu and Kongo at the Central Park Zoo in New York City. She was the first baby gorilla successfully born in captivity in New York. Months after her much publicized birth, Pattycake's arm was broken ...
The Prospect Park Zoo is a 12-acre (4.9 ha) zoo located off Flatbush Avenue on the eastern side of Prospect Park, Brooklyn, New York City. As of 2016, the zoo houses 864 animals representing about 176 species, and as of 2007, it averaged 300,000 visitors annually. The Prospect Park Zoo is operated by the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS).
Human zoo. A group of Igorot displayed during the St. Louis World's Fair [1][2] Natives of Tierra del Fuego, brought to the Paris World's Fair by the Maître in 1889. Human zoos, also known as ethnological expositions, were public displays of people, usually in a so-called "natural" or "primitive" state. [3]
Simia rosalia Linnaeus, 1766. The golden lion tamarin (Leontopithecus rosalia; Portuguese: mico-leão-dourado [ˈmiku leˈɐ̃w do (w)ˈɾadu, - liˈɐ̃w -]), also known as the golden marmoset, is a small New World monkey of the family Callitrichidae. Endemic to the Atlantic coastal forests of Brazil, the golden lion tamarin is an endangered ...
Monkey Jungle, Miami; ... Bronx Zoo, New York City ; Buffalo Zoo, ... The Zoo Tourist: Visiting America's Zoos and Aquariums. Red and Black Publishers.
Jim Cronin (zookeeper) James Michael Cronin MBE (15 November 1951 – 17 March 2007) was the American co-founder in 1987 of Monkey World in Dorset, England, a sanctuary for abused and neglected primates. He was widely acknowledged as an international expert in the rescue and rehabilitation of abused primates, and in the enforcement of ...