#archives #conservation #americanhistory

We’re excited to announce our collaboration with The Art of Fauna, a cozy puzzle app that scrambles animal illustrations into tiles (like this one) that you can re-assemble into picture perfection while learning more about the species! 1/2 #archives #puzzlegame #GameDev

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. 1/4 #archives

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. 1/3 #archives

#dyk? Alongside preserving and sharing historical @wcs.org records, the WCS #Archives also collects today’s materials to save for future generations. We’re especially excited about a recent addition from WCS’s Exhibits and Graphic Arts Department: 1/2

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. 1/2

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... 1/3

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. 1/3 #newyorkcity

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... 1/3 #archives

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...

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!) 1/2

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. 1/2

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. 1/3

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. 1/3 #archives

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. 1/3

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... 1/3

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... 1/2

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.

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. #archives

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... @thewcs.bsky.social library.wcs.org/Archives/Dig... 1/3

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