In 1896 the new Bronx Zoo named Hornaday its director. Bechtel provides an enlightening chapter on the one blot on his service there—his decision to display an African pygmy named Ota Benga in a cage ...

The “Fourth Annual We Remember Ota Benga Memorial Program” on March ... of the Congo more than 120 years ago when his indigenous pygmy community was virtually exterminated by a group of ...

The St. Louis Fair didn’t just display Filipinos, it also featured an exhibit of Africans, including a Congolese man named Ota Benga. After the St. Louis ... Touted as a savage pygmy, Benga quickly ...

Americans who have fallen in love with Moo Deng no longer need to travel to Thailand to see a baby pygmy hippo in person. Poppy was born on Dec. 9, 2024, to the Metro Richmond Zoo's resident pygmy ...

In the 19th and early 20th centuries scientists were so fascinated by race that thousands of indigenous people from all over the world were put on display in human zoos They were not intended as ...

To the editor: My heart sang as I read the beautiful piece by Kitty Block of the Humane Society of the United States, celebrating the resurrection of Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus ...

Tens of thousands flocked to see him, the sign outside the cage proclaiming, “The African Pygmy, ‘Ota Benga’...Exhibited each afternoon during September.” When a group of black ministers ...