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The archives of the Wildlife Conservation Society, founded in 1895 as the New York Zoological Society.
The Congo Gorilla Forest at the Bronx Zoo is an immersive, participatory exhibit that is home today to the zoo’s gorillas and other animals. Congo represents an evolutionary step in zoo design that follows on an exhibit that opened 75 years ago this month, The Great Apes House.
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October 24, 2025 at 2:41 PM
The Congo Gorilla Forest at the Bronx Zoo is an immersive, participatory exhibit that is home today to the zoo’s gorillas and other animals. Congo represents an evolutionary step in zoo design that follows on an exhibit that opened 75 years ago this month, The Great Apes House.
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We couldn't let this month end without a winged salute to 120 years of the Pheasant Aviary at the Bronx Zoo. The unique wood-framed, Tudor style building opened in September 1905, relieving some of the overcrowding at the Aquatic Bird House and Ostrich House.
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September 29, 2025 at 2:14 PM
We couldn't let this month end without a winged salute to 120 years of the Pheasant Aviary at the Bronx Zoo. The unique wood-framed, Tudor style building opened in September 1905, relieving some of the overcrowding at the Aquatic Bird House and Ostrich House.
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This Sunday, Aug. 10 is #WorldLionDay. The WCS #Archives holds bracing footage of a 1973 film titled "Predators of the Serengeti." It features George Schaller's Serengeti-based research on predator-prey relationships. The clips show lions hunting gazelles.
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August 8, 2025 at 6:46 PM
This Sunday, Aug. 10 is #WorldLionDay. The WCS #Archives holds bracing footage of a 1973 film titled "Predators of the Serengeti." It features George Schaller's Serengeti-based research on predator-prey relationships. The clips show lions hunting gazelles.
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On this #ThrowbackThursday, the WCS #Archives looks back at the June 12, 1969 opening of the Bronx Zoo’s World of Darkness. That unique exhibition’s press kit, a folder packed with photos, facts, and statements from zoo leaders intended to help with news coverage...
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July 31, 2025 at 2:01 PM
On this #ThrowbackThursday, the WCS #Archives looks back at the June 12, 1969 opening of the Bronx Zoo’s World of Darkness. That unique exhibition’s press kit, a folder packed with photos, facts, and statements from zoo leaders intended to help with news coverage...
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100 years ago today, @wcs.org's Department of Tropical Research began their study of the Hudson Canyon as part of the Arcturus Expedition. They were awestruck by the diversity and beauty of the species they found just 100 miles off the coast of New York City.
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July 25, 2025 at 8:00 PM
100 years ago today, @wcs.org's Department of Tropical Research began their study of the Hudson Canyon as part of the Arcturus Expedition. They were awestruck by the diversity and beauty of the species they found just 100 miles off the coast of New York City.
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We’re so excited about our new Digitization Project Grant from Metropolitan New York Library Council! We’ve got plans to digitize some beautiful glass plate negatives showing the expeditions of the Department of Tropical Research that have never been digitized before. Months ago...
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July 21, 2025 at 7:51 PM
We’re so excited about our new Digitization Project Grant from Metropolitan New York Library Council! We’ve got plans to digitize some beautiful glass plate negatives showing the expeditions of the Department of Tropical Research that have never been digitized before. Months ago...
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As the film turns 50, don't blame ‘Jaws‘ for our fear of sharks, writes Hans Walters of WCS‘s New York Aquarium.
But in reality, Walters writes for @nydailynews.com, this group of animals bears little resemblance to the antagonist of the book and film.
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But in reality, Walters writes for @nydailynews.com, this group of animals bears little resemblance to the antagonist of the book and film.
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This Shark Week, some ideas on ‘Jaws’ at 50
I first saw “Jaws” during its theatrical debut in 1975 when I was 15. The previous year, family friends had loaned me Peter Benchley’s novel. The book and film terrified me. But I had been a shark-…
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July 19, 2025 at 4:24 PM
As the film turns 50, don't blame ‘Jaws‘ for our fear of sharks, writes Hans Walters of WCS‘s New York Aquarium.
But in reality, Walters writes for @nydailynews.com, this group of animals bears little resemblance to the antagonist of the book and film.
🌎 www.nydailynews.com/2025/07/19/t...
But in reality, Walters writes for @nydailynews.com, this group of animals bears little resemblance to the antagonist of the book and film.
🌎 www.nydailynews.com/2025/07/19/t...
Don’t let this news make you feel dizzy but yesterday marked 20 years of spinning at the Bronx Zoo’s Bug Carousel! The merry-go-round opened on July 13, 2005 with 64 kinds of creatures modeled as rides. (28 were beetles!)
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July 14, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Don’t let this news make you feel dizzy but yesterday marked 20 years of spinning at the Bronx Zoo’s Bug Carousel! The merry-go-round opened on July 13, 2005 with 64 kinds of creatures modeled as rides. (28 were beetles!)
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Please join the WCS #Archives in wishing the Bronx Zoo’s JungleWorld exhibition a happy 40th anniversary! JungleWorld opened on June 22, 1985. The 1-acre and 1,000,000 cubic ft. exhibition was the final section of Wild Asia. It opened with over 70 species of tropical Asian wildlife.
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June 23, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Please join the WCS #Archives in wishing the Bronx Zoo’s JungleWorld exhibition a happy 40th anniversary! JungleWorld opened on June 22, 1985. The 1-acre and 1,000,000 cubic ft. exhibition was the final section of Wild Asia. It opened with over 70 species of tropical Asian wildlife.
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On this date 25 years ago, Astor Court at the Bronx Zoo was officially recognized as a New York City landmark! Designed by Bronx Zoo Director Hornaday and the architectural firm Heins & LaFarge, it was originally named Baird Court after the famed 19th century naturalist Spencer Baird.
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June 20, 2025 at 4:42 PM
On this date 25 years ago, Astor Court at the Bronx Zoo was officially recognized as a New York City landmark! Designed by Bronx Zoo Director Hornaday and the architectural firm Heins & LaFarge, it was originally named Baird Court after the famed 19th century naturalist Spencer Baird.
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This Sunday is #WorldOceansDay! To celebrate, we're happily taking another look at the Department of Tropical Research's Arcturus expedition which occurred in TWO oceans.
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June 6, 2025 at 8:12 PM
This Sunday is #WorldOceansDay! To celebrate, we're happily taking another look at the Department of Tropical Research's Arcturus expedition which occurred in TWO oceans.
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Today is the 40th Anniversary of the opening of the Animal Health Center, which was dedicated on April 30, 1985, under the direction of Emil Dolensek (pictured with snow leopard cub). The new facility replaced the Bronx Zoo’s first animal hospital, established in 1916.
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April 30, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Today is the 40th Anniversary of the opening of the Animal Health Center, which was dedicated on April 30, 1985, under the direction of Emil Dolensek (pictured with snow leopard cub). The new facility replaced the Bronx Zoo’s first animal hospital, established in 1916.
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The WCS Library and #Archives prides itself on facilitating knowledge. So, we’re grateful when other institutions help us fulfill our mission. For years, the Biodiversity Heritage Library has digitized many publications created by the New York Zoological Society...
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April 28, 2025 at 7:37 PM
The WCS Library and #Archives prides itself on facilitating knowledge. So, we’re grateful when other institutions help us fulfill our mission. For years, the Biodiversity Heritage Library has digitized many publications created by the New York Zoological Society...
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Tomorrow, we wish a happy 130th anniversary to @wcs.org, the Wildlife Conservation Society! 🎉In 1895, WCS was founded (as the New York Zoological Society) in order to establish and maintain a first-rate zoo in NYC and promote the study and protection of wildlife. The WCS #Archives...
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April 25, 2025 at 6:44 PM
We’re grateful for the support that we’ve received over the years to make these treasures from our #Archives available online, with special thanks to the #LeonLevyFoundation, @clirnews.bsky.social, @filmpreservation.bsky.social, and Delaine and Malcom Strandberg.
Otherworldly wildlife so close to New York City. 100 years ago, scientists and artists set sail on the WCS-led Arcturus. Madeleine Thompson of @wcs-archives.bsky.social shares the timeless beauty they found.
We’re still working to protect #HudsonCanyon.
🌎 Watch: www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Pik...
We’re still working to protect #HudsonCanyon.
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Drawings of Otherworldly Wildlife: Capturing the History of the Hudson Canyon
YouTube video by Wildlife Conservation Society
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April 9, 2025 at 8:48 PM
We’re grateful for the support that we’ve received over the years to make these treasures from our #Archives available online, with special thanks to the #LeonLevyFoundation, @clirnews.bsky.social, @filmpreservation.bsky.social, and Delaine and Malcom Strandberg.
In 1925, six pioneering women joined the WCS Department of Tropical Research’s Arcturus Expedition to explore “Neptune’s Graveyard”—and changed marine science forever.
April 7, 2025 at 1:04 PM
In 1925, six pioneering women joined the WCS Department of Tropical Research’s Arcturus Expedition to explore “Neptune’s Graveyard”—and changed marine science forever.
We’re glad to be joining the #ArchivesHashtagParty this month, looking at #ArchivesHandwriting. Here we see an early 1916 page from the guestbook of the Department of Tropical Research’s station in Kartabo, British Guiana.
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March 7, 2025 at 9:14 PM
We’re glad to be joining the #ArchivesHashtagParty this month, looking at #ArchivesHandwriting. Here we see an early 1916 page from the guestbook of the Department of Tropical Research’s station in Kartabo, British Guiana.
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Thanks to a National Film Preservation Foundation Basic Grant, we are thrilled to have been able to preserve 5 more films from our archives. Subjects include a 1936 Department of Tropical Research expedition to what was then British Guiana...
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January 9, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Thanks to a National Film Preservation Foundation Basic Grant, we are thrilled to have been able to preserve 5 more films from our archives. Subjects include a 1936 Department of Tropical Research expedition to what was then British Guiana...
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library.wcs.org/Archives/Dig...
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Looking for the perfect gift for a Bronx Zoo fan in your life? Check out the WCS Archives shop on Redbubble for products featuring classic Bronx Zoo designs from our archival collections. www.redbubble.com/people/WCS-A... #bronxzoo #redbubble
December 13, 2024 at 9:30 PM
Looking for the perfect gift for a Bronx Zoo fan in your life? Check out the WCS Archives shop on Redbubble for products featuring classic Bronx Zoo designs from our archival collections. www.redbubble.com/people/WCS-A... #bronxzoo #redbubble