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The Central Park Zoo is a zoo located in Central Park in New York City.[1]
History[]
Newt Scamander and Jacob Kowalski decided to search Central Park in 1926 after Jacob suggested that one of Newt's escaped creatures might have gone there.[2] The pair encountered an escaped lion from the Central Park Zoo while walking through the Diamond District.[3] When they got to Central Park, an ostrich ran past them on a bridge, fleeing from an unknown danger.[4] They soon found that Newt's escaped creature – a female Erumpent in estrus – had invaded the Central Park Zoo in search of a mate, letting several of the resident animals loose in the process.[4][5] Newt and Jacob managed to recapture the Erumpent with great difficulty and destruction.[5]
Animals kept in the zoo[]
- Arizona coral snake[6]
- Two lions[7]
- Two ostriches[7]
- One hippopotamus[5]
- One baboon[5]
- One seal[5]
- Two giraffes[7]
- One rhinoceros[7]
- Several parrots
- Long-tailed parakeet
- Green parakeet
- Red shouldered macaw
- Military macaw
- Blue-throated macaw[8]
- At least one American flamingo[8]
Media[]
Behind the scenes[]
Central Park Zoo as depicted in LEGO Dimensions
- The events in Central Parks in Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them may be a reference to a hoax article written in the New York Herald in 1874, claiming that there was a mass escape of animals from the Central Park Zoo and they were terrorising the city. The animals that the paper had claimed escaped included a rhinoceros and a numidian lion.[9]
Appearances[]
- Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them: The Original Screenplay (First appearance)
- Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (film)
- The Case of Beasts: Explore the Film Wizardry of Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
- LEGO Dimensions
- Harry Potter (website)
Notes and references[]
- ↑ "Central Park Zoo" on Wikipedia
- ↑ Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them: The Original Screenplay, Scene 47
- ↑ Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them: The Original Screenplay, Scene 50
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them: The Original Screenplay, Scene 51
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them: The Original Screenplay, Scene 54
- ↑ The Case of Beasts: Explore the Film Wizardry of Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 LEGO Dimensions
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (film)
- ↑ Harper's weekly. v.37 Jan.-June 1893.
