Surabaya Zoo performed on the animals found plastic and wood inside the animals. The death of Melani the tiger, one of only a few hundred Sumatran tigers left in the world, outraged animal activists when it was discovered that the tiger was suffering from extreme digestive disorders before being rescued from the zoo. On 28 January 2014 Surabaya Zoo authority announced that the zoo has a collection of 3,459 animals from 197 species, but 81 animals are sick, disabled, and old, and 44 of which are in severe conditions. An online petition that calls for the closure of Surabaya Zoo due to
Bronx Zoo sits atop the Rainey Memorial Gates. In 1916, the zoo built the world's first animal hospital located at a zoo. In 1937, the zoo became the first in North America to exhibit okapi. In 1960, the zoo became the first in the world to keep James's flamingo, a species which had been thought to be extinct until 1957. They were imported along with the similar Andean flamingo. The zoo was one of the few in the world to exhibit proboscis monkeys outside of Southeast Asia and, in the 1976 International Zoo Yearbook, the zoo reported having eight monkeys, seven of