Editing Bronx Zoo (section)

====Zoo Center====
[[File:Bronx Zoo center.jpg|thumb|The Zoo Center]]
The Zoo Center, built in 1908, is a one-story [[Beaux-Arts architecture|Beaux-Arts]] building located in Astor Court. The exhibit houses [[Blue Tree Monitor|blue tree monitors]], [[Mertens' water monitor]]s and [[spiny-tailed monitor]]s indoors and has both indoor and outdoor enclosures for [[Komodo dragon]]s, [[Aldabra giant tortoise]]s and [[southern white rhinoceros]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/24/nyregion/dragons-return-to-the-bronx-zoo.html |title=Dragons Return to the Bronx Zoo |date=May 24, 2014 |work=The New York Times |access-date=February 6, 2017 |archive-date=August 27, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170827205811/https://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/24/nyregion/dragons-return-to-the-bronx-zoo.html |url-status=live}}</ref> The building's animal [[frieze]] was carved by [[A. P. Proctor]].<ref name="nydailynews.com"/> In 2000, the building was landmarked.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.nycgovparks.org/about/history/zoos/bronx-zoo |title=History of the Bronx Zoo: NYC Parks |access-date=April 13, 2016 |archive-date=April 7, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160407100632/http://www.nycgovparks.org/about/history/zoos/bronx-zoo |url-status=live}}</ref> The building is east of the Children's Zoo and south of Madagascar!.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://bronxzoo.com/exhibits/zoo-center |title=Zoo Center - Bronx Zoo |access-date=May 1, 2016 |archive-date=April 12, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160412174648/http://bronxzoo.com/exhibits/zoo-center |url-status=live}}</ref>

The building was originally designed as the zoo's Elephant House and has held all three [[elephant]] species over its history.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/28/nyregion/the-bronx-zoos-loneliest-elephant.html |title=The Bronx Zoo's Loneliest Elephant |date=June 28, 2015 |work=The New York Times |access-date=February 6, 2017 |archive-date=November 6, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171106150419/https://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/28/nyregion/the-bronx-zoos-loneliest-elephant.html |url-status=live}}</ref> The building has also been home to various [[rhinoceros]] species, [[hippopotamus]], [[Bactrian camel]], [[Malayan tapir]] and [[North Sulawesi babirusa]]. The building also held Rapunzel, one of the few [[Sumatran rhino]]s held in U.S. zoos, until her death in 2005.<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/24/nyregion/rapunzel-the-rhino-is-mourned-in-bronx.html |title=Rapunzel the Rhino is Mourned in Bronx |newspaper=The New York Times |date=December 24, 2005 |last1=Newman |first1=Andy |access-date=February 6, 2017 |archive-date=December 8, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171208122539/http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/24/nyregion/rapunzel-the-rhino-is-mourned-in-bronx.html |url-status=live}}</ref>