Bronx Zoo apologises for exhibiting African man in monkey house in 1906

Officials at 125-year-old institution denounce past ‘racial intolerance’

has apologised for exhibiting an African man alongside monkeys in 1906, in what zoo officials dubbed a “reckoning with our past”.

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