The Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS), the organization that runs the Bronx Zoo, has issued an apology for infamously putting a Congolese Mbuti pygmy man – Ota Benga – on display in its monkey house in 1906. For a week, Benga, was placed in the cage as an exhibit alongside an orangutan for zoo visitors to … Continue reading After 114 years, Bronx zoo apologizes for putting Congolese man Ota Benga on display in a Monkey House