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Connecting guests to wildlife & wild places
🐯 10,000+ animals
🌳 265 acres in the heart of NYC
🦍 AZA-accredited zoo
🌎 ’s flagship park

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10/30/2026

This weekend is your last chance to enjoy Boo at the Zoo and our NEW Animal Chats! Learn about some of the zoo’s most fascinating species, including tigers, reptiles, bears, and birds of prey, through animal enrichment, behavioral insights, and interactive Q&As. Get tickets: https://bit.ly/2OAhwsR

📸: WCS Photographer, Terria Clay

10/29/2026

The countdown to the TCS New York City Marathon has begun, are you channeling your inner snow leopard to get ready for the big day!?

From one NYC institution to another, we’re sharing this incredible video of our snow leopard cub, Sarka, sprinting around the Himalayan Highlands exhibit. As you prep for the race, consider this: snow leopards are excellent runners and can reach average speeds of 35-40 mph for short bursts. They can also leap from rock to rock horizontally up to 50 feet, and vertically up to 20 feet!

In celebration of the 50th anniversary of the 5-boro New York City Marathon course, we wish all race participants the best of luck at this year’s event. And if you are a TCS New York City Marathon New York Road Runners runner, check out an exclusive offer as part of the Beyond the Finish Line program from the Bronx Zoo!

10/28/2026

We’re popping into your feed to remind you that this is the last weekend for Boo at the Zoo!

Not only are ostriches the largest birds in the world, but with a diameter of 2 inches, their eyes are larger than those of any other bird species, five times bigger than the human eye, and larger than any land animal. This helps them to spot predators, such as lions, from a significant distance. When threatened by a predator, they can run at speeds of more than 40mph, faster than any other ratite (the group of mostly large, flightless birds).

📸: Keeper Eliza

10/27/2026

Let this stunning photo of Amur tiger Anikin remind you to join us for one last ride on the Wild Asia Monorail this weekend, before it closes for the season on November 1.

📸: Senior Keeper Dave

10/23/2026

It’s International Snow Leopard Day! Thanks to Keeper Ricky we’re able to give our followers an up close look at Sarka, our snow leopard cub, exploring the Himalayan Highlands. Our snow leopards’ naturalistic exhibits provide opportunities for exploring, climbing, and other species’ appropriate behavior. The zoo has had more than 80 snow leopard births to date and participates in the Association of Zoos and Aquariums Snow Leopard Species Survival Plan, a cooperative breeding program designed to enhance the genetic viability of the species.

At the Wildlife Conservation Society, we are working to secure critical snow leopard habitats and maintain connectivity across High Asia. Mongolia is home to the world’s second-largest wild snow leopard population. Our Wildlife Conservation Society Mongolia team recently fitted two adult males with GPS collars in the Gobi, at the eastern edge of the species’ range. The collars will help us demonstrate the importance of a critical mountain corridor connecting protected areas, understand how snow leopards move through this landscape, and provide the scientific evidence needed to secure its long-term protection.

10/22/2026

Our final spotlight for National Vet Tech Week is LVT Dalia! Read on to learn more about her work:

Favorite animal: Pacific walrus. Whiskers, tusks, they slurp their food and have tons of personality! I just love them.

✨ What you like most about your job: I enjoy using my skills as a LVT on a wide variety of species, both at the zoo and on wildlife conservation projects around the world.

Favorite story or case: One of the most memorable success stories was a bison dystocia (difficult birth). Large animal dystocias often have a guarded prognosis for both mom and baby. We were able to immobilize her, deliver the calf, and give supportive care to both animals. The health and mammal teams hand-reared her, and we named her Stout, after Dr. Cheryl Stout who delivered her!

✨ What skills are most useful: The ability to be flexible and pivot at a moment's notice. We work around the comfort of the animals, so if that means giving a primate a hand injection while lying upside-down on a dirty floor, we will happily get it done.

📚Something most people don’t know about LVTs: LVTs run anesthesia, take radiographs, process labs, prepare for and clean up after procedures, fill prescriptions, and care for patients long before and after the veterinarian walks in.

10/21/2026

Happy National Reptile Awareness Day! Did you know the Bronx Zoo houses over 40 snake species, including this rhinoceros rat snake? Next time you visit, head to the World of Reptiles and see how many snake species you can spot!

📸: WCS photographer, Terria Clay

10/20/2026

We’re continuing our National Vet Tech Week spotlights. Next up, we’re featuring LVT Leah! Read on to learn more about her work:

🐯Favorite animal: I love any big cat!

✨ What you like most about your job: This truly is a dream job! I am so thankful I get to work with such a variety of animals and help with their conservation efforts.

✨ Favorite story or case: I enjoy cases that are a collaborative effort, especially when specialists from other institutions (like the AMC!). Memorable cases include a root canal for a lion and a prosthetic beak for a hornbill.

✨ What skills are most useful: No day is the same, no patient is the same, and plans are constantly changing.

📚Something most people don’t know about LVTs: LVTs really do it all! We’re the animal’s nurse, anesthetist, phlebotomist, and pharmacist; we also run CTs/Xrays and read lab work among other things.

10/19/2026

This National Vet Tech Week we’re spotlighting our team over the next few days. Next up, we’re featuring LVT Priscilla! Read on to learn more about her work:

🦍Favorite animal: western lowland gorillas

✨ What you like most about your job: No two patients are ever the same. Even when I have worked with the same species a hundred times, I still learn something new, whether that be a new anesthetic consideration or patient specific personality quirk!

💉Favorite Bronx Zoo LVT story or case: Working with our white cheeked gibbon "Milton" for voluntary blood collection.

✨ What skills are most useful: Being flexible, knowing how to be kind, and maintaining a positive outlook are immensely important!

📚Something most people don’t know about LVTs: In the state of NY, LVTs must go through 2-4 years of an accredited program and pass a national board exam to become a licensed professional. The title comes with a lot of fun "hats" though, like being a phlebotomy tech, an anesthetist, a lab tech performing in-house bloodwork and f***l analysis, and a radiology tech running CT scans, just to name a few!

10/18/2026

Happy National Vet Tech Week! This week is dedicated to celebrating the incredible veterinary technicians around the country. Here at the Bronx Zoo, our licensed vet techs (LVTs) are critical to animal care, as they are responsible for monitoring our animals’ vital signs, placing IV catheters, drawing blood, running lab tests, assisting with anesthesia, performing dental procedures, radiographs and CT-scans, and assisting our veterinarians in a wide variety of procedures. To celebrate our incredible vet techs and the work that they do, we’ll be spotlighting each of their stories over the next few days. First up, we’re featuring LVT Olivia! Read on to learn more about Olivia:

🐢 Favorite animal: sea turtle

✨ What you like most about your job: No two days are ever the same. Every species brings something new to learn, a different challenge to work through, and another opportunity to grow.

🦁 Favorite LVT story or case: A root canal for an African lion.

🗣 What skills are most useful: Communication is key!

⭐ Something most people don’t know about LVTs: We're the nurses, anesthetists, phlebotomists, radiology, lab, pharmacy techs, dental hygienists, critical-care support staff of veterinary medicine all wrapped into one role.

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2300 Southern Boulevard
New York, NY
10460

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Monday	10am - 5pm
Tuesday	10am - 5pm
Wednesday	10am - 5pm
Thursday	10am - 5pm
Friday	10am - 5pm
Saturday	10am - 5:30pm
Sunday	10am - 5:30pm

Website

http://bronxzoo.com/

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