Bronx Zoo the wild. In December 2012, five Chinese yellow-headed box turtles, a critically endangered species, were born. In December 2015, the zoo rescued a juvenile Indian cobra which had stowed away on a cargo ship destined for New Jersey. The snake was found in poor condition being dehydrated, cold, and exposed to oil residue. The animal was brought to the zoo for recovery. It's unclear how the snake got onto the ship since it set out from Singapore, which is outside of the species' natural range. On July 29, 1985, two female Amur tigers killed 24-year-old animal keeper Robin Silverman after
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