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Location
What you should know
Accessibility
Steep Hill, Wheelchair Accessible
Visitor tip
Use the bronxzoo.com/today app before your visit for real-time information and an interactive park map to navigate efficiently and plan your route to priority exhibits like the American Bison habitat.
Visitor tip
Book a Wild Encounter experience to get closer interaction with animals and learn directly from zookeepers about the American Bison and conservation efforts - this provides deeper educational context beyond standard viewing.
Quick Facts
- Type
- Zoo
- Highlight
- American Bison - conservation success story with fewer than 1,100 individuals in early 1900s
- Admission
- Included with all Bronx Zoo tickets
- Special Feature
- Wild Encounters with keepers available
What visitors say
The majestically thunderous herds of the American Buffalo's (Tatanka) may no longer exist in world. And obviously future generations will, most probably, only see a very small glimpse of the wilderness that once was. To receive a fuller…
Very very vast zoo… be prepared to walk for a long long time as you go around watching the animals….great variety of wild animals…. Lots and lots of animals to see… giraffes, lions, snakes, dolphins, tigers , bears, monkeys, camels, and…
My family and I have been to this place years ago and had a wonderful time this was because there were many people there and the bison were happily roaming around the habitat.
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Did You Know?
- The American Bison exhibit features herds bred and maintained as part of bison conservation and re-establishment efforts, helping preserve a species that once numbered in the millions but declined to near extinction
- The Bronx Zoo offers Wild Encounters program that allows visitors to have personal meetings with American Bison and other animals directly with their keepers for closer interaction
- The exhibit is part of the larger Bronx Zoo complex located in the Bronx, NY, which features a diverse collection of over 8,000 animals representing more than 700 species
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