Central Park Zoo
Wildlife Conservation Society that oversees the Central Park Zoo
TEMPERATE TERRITORY: Black-necked Swan, Cygnus melancoryphus
Location	Central Park, New York City, New York, USA
Accreditations/ Memberships	AZA
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The Central Park Zoo is located in Central Park in New York City and run by the Wildlife Conservation Society. A redesign of the zoo in 1983–88, executed by the architectural firm of Kevin Roche, Dinkeloo abandoned the old-fashioned menagerie cages for more natural exhibits. The central feature of the original zoo, ranged round the sea lion pool, was retained and the pool redesigned. Trellised, vine-clad, glass-roofed pergolas link the three major exhibit areas—tropic, temperate and arctic— housed in discreet new buildings, of brick trimmed with granite, masked by vines. Now the Central Park Zoo is home to an indoor rainforest, a leafcutter ant colony, a chilled penguin house and Polar Bear pool. The Central Park Zoo houses breeding programs for some endangered species: tamarin monkeys, Wyoming toads, Thick-billed Parrots and Red Pandas. Most of the large animals were rehoused in larger, more natural spaces at the Bronx Zoo. Image File history File links Wildlife_Conservation_Society_logo. ... The Wildlife Conservation Society, (WCS), endeavours to save wildlife and wild lands though careful use of science, conservation around the world, education and through a system of urban wildlife parks. ... Image File history File links BxZ_Cygnus_melancoryphus. ... Binomial name Cygnus melanocoryphus (Molina, 1782) The Black_necked Swan (Cygnus melanocoryphus) is a member of the duck, goose and swan family Anatidae. ... A Central Park landscape Central Park is a large public, urban park (843 acres or 3. ... New York, NY redirects here. ... NY redirects here. ... The Association of Zoos and Aquariums (formerly the American Zoo and Aquarium Association), or AZA is a nonprofit organization dedicated to the advancement of zoos and aquariums in the areas of conservation, education, science, and recreation. ... A Central Park landscape Central Park is a large public, urban park (843 acres or 3. ... New York, NY redirects here. ... The Wildlife Conservation Society, (WCS), endeavours to save wildlife and wild lands though careful use of science, conservation around the world, education and through a system of urban wildlife parks. ... Giraffes in Sydneys Taronga Zoo A zoological garden, zoological park, or zoo is a facility in which animals are confined within enclosures and displayed to the public, and in which they may also be bred. ... Kevin Roche (b. ... In Valencia a newly-installed pergola shows its structure, which the climbing roses will cover. ... This article is about the rainforest in general. ... Binomial name Ursus maritimus Phipps, 1774 Polar bear range Synonyms Thalarctos marittimus The polar bear (Ursus maritimus), also known as the white bear, northern bear, sea bear, ice bear or nanuq in some Inuit languages, is a species of bear that is native to the Arctic and the apex predator... Type Species Saguinas ursula Hoffmannsegg, 1807 = Simia midas Linnaeus, 1758 Species 17 species, see text The tamarins are any of the squirrel-sized New World monkeys from the family Cebidae, classified as the genus Saguinus. ... Binomial name Rhynchopsitta pachyrhyncha Swainson, 1827 The Thick-billed Parrot, Rhynchopsitta pachyrhyncha is a medium-sized, up to 38cm long, bright green parrot with a large black bill and a red forecrown, shoulder and thighs. ... Binomial name Ailurus fulgens F. Cuvier, 1825 Red Panda range subspecies The Red Panda, Ailurus fulgens (shining cat, from a Latinized form of the Greek αιλουρος, ailouros, cat, and the participial form of the Latin fulgere, to shine) [1] is a mostly herbivorous mammal, slightly larger than a domestic cat (55... This article is about the zoo, for the tv series see The Bronx Zoo (TV). ...

No zoo was envisaged in Olmsted and Vaux's original "Greensward" design for Central Park, but the Central Park menagerie evolved from gifts of exotic pets and other animals informally given to the Park. The informally developed menagerie was at first housed in the Arsenal building that predated the Park, located at Fifth Avenue facing East 64th Street. It was given more permanent quarters behind the Arsenal building in 1870. When the Central Park Menagerie was officially founded, it was the United States's second publicly owned zoo, after the Philadelphia Zoo (founded in 1859). Frederick Law Olmsted, oil painting by John Singer Sargent, 1895, Biltmore Estate, Asheville, North Carolina Daniel France (September, 1988 was a United States landscape architect, famous for designing many well-known urban parks, including Central Park and Prospect Park in New York City, the countrys oldest coordinated system of... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Street sign at Fifth Avenue and East 57th street Fifth Avenue is a major thoroughfare in New York City. ...

The Cental Park Zoo once housed an African Human (Pygmy) [1] .

The neo-Georgian brick and limestone zoo buildings ranged in a quadrangle round the sealion pool were designed in 1934 by Aymar Embury II, architect for the Triborough Bridge and the Henry Hudson Bridge (WPA Guide). The famous sealion pool itself was designed by Charles Schmieder. For its day the sealion pool was considered advanced because the architect actually studied the habits of sealions and incorporated this knowledge into the design. By 1980, the zoo, like Central Park itself, was sadly dilapidated; in that year, responsibility for its management was assumed by the New York Zoological Society which is now the Wildlife Conservation Society. The zoo was closed in the winter of 1983, and demolition began. Some of the original buildings, with their low-relief limestone panels of animals, were reused in the redesigning, though the cramped outdoor cages were swept away. Aymar Embury II (June 15, 1880 - Nov 15, 1966) was an American architect. ... The Triborough Bridge is a complex of three bridges connecting the New York City boroughs of the Bronx, Manhattan, and Queens, using what were two islands, Wards Island and Randalls Island as intermediate rights-of-way between the water crossings. ... The Henry Hudson Bridge is a steel arch toll bridge in New York City across the Harlem River, a tidal estuary. ... This article is about the zoo, for the tv series see The Bronx Zoo (TV). ...

Since its modernization the Central Park Zoo, traditionally available to parkgoers free of charge, charges admission to its enclosed precincts.

The Central Park Zoo was featured in the 2005 DreamWorks animated film Madagascar. 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... DreamWorks, LLC (also known as Dreamworks Pictures or DreamWorks SKG) is one of the major American film studios which develops, produces, and distributes films, video games, and television programming. ... Animation refers to the process in which each frame of a film or movie is produced individually, whether generated as a computer graphic, or by photographing a drawn image, or by repeatedly making small changes to a model (see claymation and stop motion), and then photographing the result. ...

See Also

• The New York Zoo hoax

The New York Zoo hoax is also known as The Central Park Zoo Escape and the Central Park Menagerie Scare of 1874. ...

References

• WPA Guide to New York City 1939, reprinted 1982, p 352
• Roy Rosenzweig and Elizabeth Blackmar, The Park and the People 1992

External links

• http://www.centralparkzoo.com/
• Images of America: The Central Park Zoo, photographs and text
• The NY City zoos
• Kevin Roche, John Dinkeloo and Associates: Central Park Zoo: photographs at time of completion