The Bronx zoo is one of the world's largest urban zoos. Located on seven hundred acres, it contains about four thousand animals (more than six hundred species from all continents.

He appeared on earth, which was once owned by Forthese University, in the late nineteenth century, sold the land to new York for just a thousand dollars – with the condition that there will be founded a zoo. Perhaps Catholic University, located in the village of Fordham, North new York, wanted a kind of buffer thing from approaching the city. Of course, in the end, the city swallowed up the whole area, but residents have a great place to stay.

The zoo opened in 1899. Then it had a collection of about eight hundred animals, including black and white bears, Grizzlies, sea lions. Pool for sea lions have been preserved, as well as many other attractions in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries – the pavilions in the Beaux arts, decorated with sculptural images of wild animals, the Rockefeller fountain, figures of jaguars, a huge boulder of pink granite, the gate Rainey memorial gates. These bronze gates at the art Deco hotel, built in 1934 on the draft Floor Manship, was dedicated to the memory of the famous American hunter and photographer Paul James Rainey. The attention of the visitor entering the Park, on the East Fordham road, and now attract wrought iron animal figures amongst stylised plants.

In the zoo so much entertainment that many come more than once. You can ride the monorail carriages – this trip is called "wild Asia" will provide an opportunity to see how the rhinos roll in the mud to protect themselves, the elephants throw water from their trunks, red pandas are on the trees, antelopes galloping over the hills, and in the reeds of the Bronx river fishing egrets. Nice to have a pair of binoculars – he obviously useful on a walk! In "gorillacam forest, you can observe not only the gorillas, but also for adorable pygmy marmosets and other monkeys. "Tiger mountain" visitors admire the majestic Amur tigers. But the category of "Madagascar" pleasing spectacle of lemurs, geckos, crocodiles, and hissing cockroaches.

Children enjoyed a ride on the carousel bug, visit a colony of sea birds, a butterfly garden, the so-called children's zoo – there are taught to act like different animals. Many are torn to open in 2013 dinosaur Safari, but we must remember that the baby may be frightened by the roaring and Baring his teeth shapes of prehistoric reptiles that on this walk and then appear out of the bushes.