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Jim Breheny has been at the Bronx Zoo for 51 years, starting with a role at the children's zoo when he was 14 in the early 1970s. "No, I never thought I would be in this position," he joked of his ...
The fugitive bird has been roaming the streets of the Bronx since Monday. Zoo Director Jim Breheny said she was found Wednesday morning in the garage of a local business and safely caught.
Battle of the boroughs over which one produces the best-tasting honey 01:22. The Bronx Zoo hosted a contest on Tuesday to see ...
a young Egyptian cobra that vanished from its enclosure at the Bronx Zoo last week. “She’s alive and well,” Jim Breheny, Bronx Zoo director and senior vice president of the Wildlife ...
NEW YORK -- A highly venomous Egyptian cobra that went missing at the Bronx Zoo was found Thursday ... been found alive and well," the zoo's director, Jim Breheny, said during a news conference ...
The Bronx Zoo's trio of dholes are housed in the newly renovated polar bear exhibit. Jim Breheny, Director of the Bronx Zoo, said that the zoo decided to revamp the polar bear exhibit because of ...
On this episode of the Mongabay Newscast we speak with Jim Breheny, director of the Bronx Zoo in New York City, about the contributions zoos make to the cause of global biodiversity conservation.
The elusive snake was found "coiled, sort of secluded in a dark corner" about 9 a.m. a couple hundred feet away from the enclosure she had slipped out of, said Bronx Zoo Director Jim Breheny.