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===Non-human deaths=== By 2001, the zoo added a troop of [[Javan lutung|Javan langurs]] to JungleWorld, sharing an enclosure with [[asian small-clawed otter]]s.<ref>{{Citation | vauthors=((Doxhoont, L.)) | year=2001 | title=monkey n baby | url=https://www.flickr.com/photos/auntie_doxhoont/468994895/ | access-date=18 May 2025}}</ref> Since the addition of the langurs, they were sighted taunting and provoking the otters.<ref>{{Citation | vauthors=((Altaffer, M.)) | year=2006 | title=A family of Asian Small-Clawed Otters play with a Ebony Langur at the Jungle World exhibit Friday, Nov. 17, 2006 at the Bronx Zoo in New York. The otter pups were born at the zoo on Aug. 25, 2006. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer Stock Photo - Alamy | url=https://www.alamy.com/a-family-of-asian-small-clawed-otters-play-with-a-ebony-langur-at-the-jungle-world-exhibit-friday-nov-17-2006-at-the-bronx-zoo-in-new-york-the-otter-pups-were-born-at-the-zoo-on-aug-25-2006-ap-photomary-altaffer-image541127765.html | access-date=18 May 2025}}</ref> In June 2007, a romp of otters grabbed a langur near the water and proceeded to maul and drown it in full view of visitors. A zookeeper on the viewing deck attempted to break up the fight by whistling at the otters. To no avail of the keeper, the otters killed the langur. Part of the incident was recorded and uploaded to [[YouTube]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fNogZkyvH_4 |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211118/fNogZkyvH_4 |archive-date=November 18, 2021 |url-status=live |title=Monkey Death at Bronx Zoo |date=June 14, 2007 |website=YouTube}}{{cbignore}}</ref> By 2010, the otters were relocated into two exhibits, one at the Children's Zoo<ref>https://www.zoochat.com/community/media/childrens-zoo-asian-small-clawed-otter-aonyx-cinereus-exhibit.781764/</ref> and another in JungleWorld.<ref>https://www.zoochat.com/community/media/bronx-zoo-2010-short-clawed-otter-exhibit-in-jungle-world.130715/</ref>
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