Bronx Zoo Bronx Zoo News 2018

nczoofan said:
The zoo threatened it but never did it. The rare animal range did close as did the other exhibits, but the hours were never touched.

The zoo has no reason to cut ties with the city. The majority of its budget is either donated from private individuals and admissions. The city is a small part of their budget, but should not be ignored. The city also helps out extensively with new exhibits like ocean wonders: sharks. The city owns the 3 city zoos at minimum and WCS manages them. The zoo would have to give this up if it cut ties. Also its important the zoo and city work together as infrastructure improvements, building permitting and zoning all require city help.

I don't disagree with privatizing zoos, yet the Bronx Zoo already is private and has been since its founding. The city never founded the zoo, it was the New York Zoological Society which is now known as the WCS. Its a non-profit and is not part of the city. Most privatized zoos still have funding agreements with the locality they are in and thats the case for the Bronx Zoo. The issue for the WCS is that the zoos and global programs operate on largely separate budgets. Much of the NYC funding and admissions/gift shops/food are for the zoos, while the federal government and private individuals cover most of the global programs.

City funding for 2017 was 16%, yet in 2012 it was 10%. The reason is that the increased city funding is for an improvement (shark exhibit) on NYC land (NY Aquarium). I imagine come 2018 city funding will fall again, as it is only increased because of capital improvements.

The budget can be found in here: https://c532f75abb9c1c021b8c-e46e47...onservation_Impact_Report_Digital_Version.pdf
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I could have sworn I saw that the hours were affected from 9-5 to 10-5 in light of the budget cuts. I feel very ignorant right now after reading your extensive post regarding the Zoo's budget. Just goes to show that my opinions and statements regarding current and past events need as much backing as possible.
 
Wyman said:
I could have sworn I saw that the hours were affected from 9-5 to 10-5 in light of the budget cuts. I feel very ignorant right now after reading your extensive post regarding the Zoo's budget. Just goes to show that my opinions and statements regarding current and past events need as much backing as possible.
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Tbh I have a vague memory of them going from 9-5 to 10-5 as well, but I didn't comment as I wasn't sure if I'd made it up or not.

~Thylo
 
Wyman said:
I could have sworn I saw that the hours were affected from 9-5 to 10-5 in light of the budget cuts. I feel very ignorant right now after reading your extensive post regarding the Zoo's budget. Just goes to show that my opinions and statements regarding current and past events need as much backing as possible.
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Sorry my post might have come off as abrupt. Im just a nerd when it comes to budgets and economic figures. The Bronx Zoo's biggest issue right now is not the city, its the federal government. From what I have read if the state department budget is cut, then that will have a massive impact on WCS conservation funding.
 
The Bronx Zoo has had 10-5 (and weekends 5:30 in the summer) hours since at least the early 1980's, if not for a lot longer. I know there have been calls at times to lengthen the hours; but I know at least until recently the area around the Bronx Zoo was not the safest during the evening hence not having later hours. I always wondered why the zoo never opened at 9 or 9:30, but historically it has always been 10. It could be budget reasons why the zoo does not have late hours (unlike the aquarium which has evening hours on Friday and Saturday).
 
During the summer it doesn't get dark up here until 7pm at the earliest they could still be open from 9-6 during the summer months. I'd imagine it's for budget issues nowadays since they'd have to pay more staff during open hours.

~Thylo
 
nczoofan said:
Sorry my post might have come off as abrupt. Im just a nerd when it comes to budgets and economic figures. The Bronx Zoo's biggest issue right now is not the city, its the federal government. From what I have read if the state department budget is cut, then that will have a massive impact on WCS conservation funding.
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Dude, you don't have to feel sorry for having all this knowledge regarding the city's budget! You come across as a genuinely nice individual, and well informed to boot. I'd be interested to chat with you further sometime, and honor the site's namesake.
 
The zoo has a pair of Great Indian Hornbills in World of Birds now in what was previously the Great Blue Turaco enclosure (the turacos can still be seen in the main African walk-through aviary). There's also a pair of Cabot's Tragopan chicks and a single Blue-Winged Goose chick on-exhibit. The Woodland Dormouse enclosure is under renovation and it doesn't appear to be getting set-up for dormice. Speaking of the Mouse House does anyone know what's being kept in the old elephant-shrew enclosure there's been something in there for some time now but there's no signage and I've never actually spotted the animal. Finally just as an odd note I still have yet to spot any of the Maleos or Sulawesi Forest Turtles all year long despite usually seeing them quite easily.

~Thylo
 
I'm going to the zoo on saturday and while catching up on episodes of The Zoo, noticed a brief clip... which of the buildings has the bats flying loose?
 
nczoofan said:
Jungleworld has both rodrigues fruit bats and indian flying fox. They have one species in the main room with the tapirs/gharials and another species in the javan langur section.
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Two species? Ugh. Well at least I found out before I got there. Thanks :)
 
ThylacineAlive said:
Slight correction: the Rodrigues are now in with the tree-kangaroo.

~Thylo
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I saw a bunch in with the tapirs and one lone bat with the gharials. None with the tree kangaroo, but they easily could have been blocked by the trees. I managed to only internally freak out, no panicking, though I did make my dad stay very close to me at that point. Progress :)

I did the Cheetah Connection as well. They brought in one of the sloths beforehand, it was too cold for them to go outside. I'm not into sloths much and would have rather had that time to see other exhibits, but I didn't have much of a choice ;) Didn't make it to world of birds, reptile house, any of the himalayan section. I was honestly rather underwhelmed.
 
Can I have some information on the Bronx's Maleos? Are there any other collections in America that keeps Maleos also?
 
ZooBinh said:
Can I have some information on the Bronx's Maleos? Are there any other collections in America that keeps Maleos also?
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The Bronx zoo has about 14 at the moment, and is the only zoo to breed them. Most of them are kept off display, but several are on exhibit on the 1st floor of World of Birds. Bronx has sent out pairs to Houston, San Diego and Tulsa so far in the United States. WCS also does a lot of conservation work, protecting nests and habitat in Sulawesi.
 
nczoofan said:
The Bronx zoo has about 14 at the moment, and is the only zoo to breed them. Most of them are kept off display, but several are on exhibit on the 1st floor of World of Birds. Bronx has sent out pairs to Houston, San Diego and Tulsa so far in the United States. WCS also does a lot of conservation work, protecting nests and habitat in Sulawesi.
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Thank you very much for this information.
 
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