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The largest metropolitan zoo in the United States, the Bronx Zoo opened in November 1899 on 265 acres of hardwood forest in Bronx Park, starting with 843 animals and an explicit mission to promote wildlife conservation. It is the flagship of the Wildlife Conservation Society, formerly the New York Zoological Society, and its first director, William Temple Hornaday, ran it for three decades and helped lead early efforts to save the American bison from extinction. From the start the zoo pushed to...