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Prospect Park Zoo

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The Prospect Park Zoo is a zoo located off Flatbush Avenue on the eastern side of Prospect Park, Brooklyn, New York City. [1]

52 relations: Asian black bear, Association of Zoos and Aquariums, Aymar Embury II, Black vulture, Black-tailed prairie dog, Bronx Zoo, Brooklyn, Brooklyn Botanic Garden, Calvert Vaux, Central Park Zoo, Cinnamon bear, Civil Works Administration, Common dwarf mongoose, Cotton-top tamarin, Desert monitor, Dingo, Emerald tree boa, Emu, Fiorello H. La Guardia, Flatbush Avenue, Frederick Law Olmsted, Gifford Miller, Great Depression, Hamadryas baboon, Heart of Brooklyn, Litchfield Villa, Meerkat, Michael Bloomberg, MTA Regional Bus Operations, New York (magazine), New York (state), New York Aquarium, New York City, New York City Council, New York City Department of Parks and Recreation, New York City Subway, New York Daily News, North American river otter, Pallas's cat, PDF, Porcupine, Prospect Park (BMT Lines), Prospect Park (Brooklyn), Queens Zoo, Red panda, Robert Moses, Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, Wildlife Conservation Society, Works Progress Administration, ..., Zoo, 15th Street–Prospect Park (IND Culver Line). Expand index (2 more) »

Asian black bear

The Asian black bear (Ursus thibetanus, previously known as Selenarctos thibetanus), also known as the moon bear and the white-chested bear, is a medium-sized bear species native to Asia and largely adapted to arboreal life.

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Association of Zoos and Aquariums

The Association of Zoos and Aquariums (AZA), previously the American Zoo and Aquarium Association and originally the American Association of Zoological Parks and Aquariums), is a nonprofit organization founded in 1924 dedicated to the advancement of North American zoos and public aquariums in the areas of conservation, education, science, and recreation. The AZA is headquartered in Silver Spring, Maryland, United States.

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Aymar Embury II

Aymar Embury II (June 15, 1880 – November 15, 1966) was an American architect.

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Black vulture

The black vulture (Coragyps atratus), also known as the American black vulture, is a bird in the New World vulture family whose range extends from the southeastern United States to Central Chile and Uruguay in South America.

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Black-tailed prairie dog

The black-tailed prairie dog (Cynomys ludovicianus), is a rodent of the family Sciuridae found in the Great Plains of North America from about the United States-Canada border to the United States-Mexico border.

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Bronx Zoo

The Bronx Zoo is a zoo located within Bronx Park in the Bronx, a borough of New York City.

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Brooklyn

Brooklyn is the most populous borough of New York City, with a census-estimated 2,648,771 residents in 2017.

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Brooklyn Botanic Garden

Brooklyn Botanic Garden (BBG) is a botanical garden in the borough of Brooklyn in New York City.

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Calvert Vaux

Calvert Vaux (December 20, 1824 – November 19, 1895) was a British-American architect and landscape designer.

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Central Park Zoo

The Central Park Zoo is a small zoo located in Central Park in New York City.

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Cinnamon bear

The cinnamon bear (Ursus americanus cinnamomum) is both a color phase and subspecies of the American black bear, native to central and western areas of the United States and Canada.

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Civil Works Administration

The Civil Works Administration (CWA) was a short-lived job creation program established by the New Deal during the Great Depression in the United States to rapidly create manual-labor jobs for millions of unemployed workers.

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Common dwarf mongoose

The common dwarf mongoose (Helogale parvula), sometimes just called the dwarf mongoose, is a small African carnivore belonging to the mongoose family (Herpestidae).

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Cotton-top tamarin

The cotton-top tamarin (Saguinus oedipus) is a small New World monkey weighing less than.

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Desert monitor

The desert monitor, Varanus griseus, is a species of monitor lizards of the order Squamata found living throughout North Africa and Central and South Asia.

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Dingo

The dingo (Canis familiaris or Canis familiaris dingo or Canis lupus dingo or Canis dingo) is a type of feral dog native to Australia.

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Emerald tree boa

Corallus caninus, commonly called the emerald tree boa,Mehrtens JM.

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Emu

The emu (Dromaius novaehollandiae) is the second-largest living bird by height, after its ratite relative, the ostrich.

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Fiorello H. La Guardia

Fiorello Henry La Guardia (born Fiorello Enrico La Guardia) (December 11, 1882September 20, 1947) was an American politician.

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Flatbush Avenue

Flatbush Avenue is a major avenue in the New York City Borough of Brooklyn.

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Frederick Law Olmsted

Frederick Law Olmsted (April 26, 1822 – August 28, 1903) was an American landscape architect, journalist, social critic, and public administrator.

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Gifford Miller

Alan Gifford Miller (born November 6, 1969) is the former Speaker of the New York City Council, where he represented Council District 5.

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Great Depression

The Great Depression was a severe worldwide economic depression that took place mostly during the 1930s, beginning in the United States.

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Hamadryas baboon

The hamadryas baboon (Papio hamadryas) is a species of baboon from the Old World monkey family.

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Heart of Brooklyn

Heart of Brooklyn (HOB), A Cultural Partnership, was founded as a non-profit organization in 2001 by six cultural institutions located near Grand Army Plaza in central Brooklyn: Brooklyn Botanic Garden, Brooklyn Children's Museum, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn Public Library, Prospect Park and Prospect Park Zoo.

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Litchfield Villa

Litchfield Villa, or "Grace Hill", is an Italianate mansion built in 1854 - 1857 on a large private estate that has since become part of Prospect Park, Brooklyn.

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Meerkat

The meerkat or suricate (Suricata suricatta) is a small carnivoran belonging to the mongoose family (Herpestidae).

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Michael Bloomberg

Michael Rubens Bloomberg (born on February 14, 1942) is an American businessman, engineer, author, politician, and philanthropist.

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MTA Regional Bus Operations

MTA Regional Bus Operations (RBO) is the surface transit division of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA).

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New York (magazine)

New York is an American biweekly magazine concerned with life, culture, politics, and style generally, and with a particular emphasis on New York City.

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New York (state)

New York is a state in the northeastern United States.

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New York Aquarium

The New York Aquarium is the oldest continually operating aquarium in the United States, having opened in Castle Garden in Battery Park, Manhattan in 1896.

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New York City

The City of New York, often called New York City (NYC) or simply New York, is the most populous city in the United States.

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New York City Council

The New York City Council is the lawmaking body of the City of New York.

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New York City Department of Parks and Recreation

The New York City Department of Parks and Recreation, also called Parks Department and NYC Parks, is the department of the government of New York City responsible for maintaining the city's parks system, preserving and maintaining the ecological diversity of the city's natural areas, and furnishing recreational opportunities for city's residents and visitors.

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New York City Subway

The New York City Subway is a rapid transit system owned by the City of New York and leased to the New York City Transit Authority, a subsidiary agency of the state-run Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA).

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New York Daily News

The New York Daily News, officially titled Daily News, is an American newspaper based in New York City.

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North American river otter

The North American river otter (Lontra canadensis), also known as the northern river otter or the common otter, is a semiaquatic mammal endemic to the North American continent found in and along its waterways and coasts.

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Pallas's cat

The Pallas's cat (Otocolobus manul), also called the manul, is a small wild cat with a broad but fragmented distribution in the grasslands and montane steppes of Central Asia.

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PDF

The Portable Document Format (PDF) is a file format developed in the 1990s to present documents, including text formatting and images, in a manner independent of application software, hardware, and operating systems.

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Porcupine

Porcupines are rodents with a coat of sharp spines, or quills, that protect against predators.

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Prospect Park (BMT Lines)

Prospect Park is an express station on the BMT Brighton Line of the New York City Subway.

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Prospect Park (Brooklyn)

Prospect Park is a 526-acre (213 hectare)"Prospect Park" NYC Parks https://www.nycgovparks.org/parks/prospect-park retrieved June 18, 2017 public park in the New York City borough of Brooklyn, and the second largest public park in Brooklyn.

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Queens Zoo

The Queens Zoo is an zoo located in Flushing Meadows – Corona Park in the New York City borough of Queens.

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Red panda

The red panda (Ailurus fulgens), also called the lesser panda, the red bear-cat, and the red cat-bear, is a mammal native to the eastern Himalayas and southwestern China.

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Robert Moses

Robert Moses (December 18, 1888 – July 29, 1981) was an American public official who worked mainly in the New York metropolitan area.

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Rudyard Kipling

Joseph Rudyard Kipling (30 December 1865 – 18 January 1936)The Times, (London) 18 January 1936, p. 12 was an English journalist, short-story writer, poet, and novelist.

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The Jungle Book

The Jungle Book (1894) is a collection of stories by the English author Rudyard Kipling.

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Wildlife Conservation Society

Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) was founded in 1895 as the New York Zoological Society (NYZS) and currently works to conserve more than two million square miles of wild places around the world.

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Works Progress Administration

The Works Progress Administration (WPA; renamed in 1939 as the Work Projects Administration) was the largest and most ambitious American New Deal agency, employing millions of people (mostly unskilled men) to carry out public works projects, including the construction of public buildings and roads.

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Zoo

A zoo (short for zoological garden or zoological park and also called an animal park or menagerie) is a facility in which all animals are housed within enclosures, displayed to the public, and in which they may also breed.

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15th Street–Prospect Park (IND Culver Line)

15th Street–Prospect Park is a local station on the IND Culver Line of the New York City Subway.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prospect_Park_Zoo

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