Bronx Zoo, 1963 — “You are looking at the most dangerous animal in the world. It alone of all the animals that ever lived can exterminate (and has) entire species of animals. Now it has the power to wipe out all life on earth.”
This exhibit was located in the Great Apes House at the Bronx Zoo in 1963 as the world reeled in the uncertainty of the most dangerous period of the cold war era following the Cuban Missile Crisis.
Located between the Orangutan and Mountain Gorilla cages was a compartment with bars and the legend shown in the photograph above. Visitors, attracted by the proclamation at the top of the cage, stopped to peer into the cage and were indeed greeted by the sight of what is, without a doubt, the most dangerous animal in the world, an image of themselves in a mirror behind the bars.
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