![]() As zoo staff tended to the animals during the city’s PAUSE, “we find that the animals would actually stop what they're doing and look at us because all of a sudden it was novel to have somebody there watching them,” he said. All the animals here are totally habituated to people and crowds and, you know, just kind of accepted them as part of the landscape and really for the most part.did not react to people one way or another,” Breheny said. ![]() ![]() Now, the presence of zoo staff actually piques the animals’ interest. In particular, the bears, giraffes and gelada monkeys have realized humans have largely been absent in the past few months since the zoo shut down during the COVID-19 pandemic, zoo director Jim Breheny told Newsday in a podcast interview Friday. When the visitors at the Bronx Zoo disappeared this spring, the animals took notice.
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