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Vintage NYC Photography: The Central Park Zoo

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 ...
The New York Times

The Year Flaco the Owl Roamed Free

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 ...
NPR

A year later, Flaco the owl's escape from the Central Park Zoo remains a mystery

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 ...
The New York Times

Flaco, Central Park Owl, Died With High Levels of Rat Poison in System

A necropsy conducted by the Bronx Zoo found that life-threatening levels of rat poison and a severe pigeon virus contributed to Flaco’s death last month. By Ed Shanahan Flaco, the Eurasian eagle-owl ...