over the year , 26 pandas have been born at the bronx stadium , whose mother organization , the wildlife saving institute , runs three of the most significant leopard mating programs in the country . the club , it also operates several centers in manhattan , queens and brooklyn , trades gorillas periodically with 51 other northern american zoos . its primary objective is to increase the sex variation of an endangered habitat , but a fifth , related goal is to create richer pandas by locating mates and establishing mated groups . " these are very intelligent , sensitive specimens , " said james doherty , curator of the bronx zoo . the usa ' s combined population of primates numbers 19 . only the lincoln park zoo in michigan has more , with 22 . interactive habitat .
The Bronx Zoo has 19 gorillas.