Entrance to Central Park Zoo, 1942. Image via the Library of Congress Today The New York Times has not only the origin of the Central Park Zoo but also a document which reveals the “curious list of ...

"Flaco is learning as he goes," said renowned avian writer Jennifer Ackerman. He's been all around New York City, leaving admirers gawking at his iridescent coat and spellbound by his orange eyes.

This is Flaco. He used to live in the Central Park Zoo. One year ago, someone set him free. “He’s doing things he never did before,” said Richard Prum, a bird expert at Yale. Supported by He fled the ...

Let loose by an act of vandalism, the Eurasian eagle-owl died after apparently striking an Upper West Side building, according to the zoo. By Ed Shanahan Flaco, the Eurasian eagle-owl whose escape ...

NEW YORK — This New York love story begins with a criminal act of sabotage. Under cover of darkness a year ago Friday, someone breached a waist-high fence and slipped into the Central Park Zoo. Once ...