“American bison were the first wildlife species that zoos actively worked to help save, with a small herd originating from the Bronx Zoo being returned to the wild in 1907 to help restore the ...

He got another chance to make his vision a reality in 1896, when he was hired to lead the organization that would become the Bronx Zoo. From the start, Hornaday’s crusade to save the bison had ...

In 1905 the director of the New York Zoological Park (now the Bronx Zoo), William T. Hornaday, started the American Bison Society and a breeding program to save the animals using the animals saved ...

Perhaps it's the Bronx Zoo in New York, or the Atlanta Zoo in ... okapi (first pic), bald and golden eagles, leopards, and and bison. (A bison was actually the first animal at the zoo when it ...