#101 The Bronx Zoo

The Bowery Boys: New York City History

Tom Meyers

Society & Culture, History, Documentary, Places & Travel

4.8 • 3.6K Ratings

🗓️ 16 April 2010

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

New York City's most exotic residents inhabit hundreds of leafy acres in the Bronx at the once-named New York Zoological Park. Sculpted out of the former DeLancey family estate and tucked next to the Bronx River, the Bronx Zoo houses hundreds of different species from across the globe, many endangered and quite foreign to most American zoos. The well meaning attempts of its founders, however, have sometimes been mired in controversy. The highlight of the show -- and the institution's lowest moment -- is the sad tale of Ota Benga, the pygmy once put on display at the zoo in 1906! ALSO: We take you on a tour of the zoo grounds, unfurling over 110 years of historical trivia, from the ancient Rocking Stone to the tale of Gunda, the Indian elephant who may also have been a poet. www.boweryboyspodcast.com Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/boweryboys

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0:00.0	The Barry boys episode 101 the Bronx Zoo. Hey, it's the Barry boys. Hey
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0:21.2	Hello, everyone. Welcome to the Barry boys. This is Greg Young and this is Tom Myers
0:25.4	I have emerged from my own personal technological black hole
0:30.0	Which what happened Greg my computer sort of like up and died one day about two and a half weeks ago
0:36.3	So I was not able to do a solo show the blog has been a little slow
0:40.3	But just as of last night. I've pulled myself out of it and we are ready to do a new show
0:46.4	We could blame it on Robert Moses
0:48.4	Maybe it was just my equipment was overloaded from all of that
0:51.9	So and he got and he he personally came and drove an expressway through my computer
0:58.3	So we're taking it a little bit easier on ourselves and on you dear listener this week
1:04.9	With a subject that's a little more lighthearted
1:07.4	We're to cross talking about the Bronx Zoo one of the city's great institutions
1:11.5	It has been an existence for over a hundred and ten years
1:15.4	And I would say next to maybe or alongside of the San Diego Zoo
1:20.3	It's probably America's best known zoo or zoological park as they used to call them
1:25.5	It's certainly the largest with four thousand animals waiting for you to visit them up in the Bronx from a
1:32.6	Size of an elephant to the size of a hissing cockroach Tom a hissing cockroach and they have dozens dozens the wildlife
1:40.9	Conservation society as they like to be known actually comprises all of the zoos in New York City
1:48.2	And they are also nearly nearly all nearly all of them. We'll get to them. I'm sure you'll explain that
1:54.0	They're also of course on the forefront of animal conservation
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