William Temple Hornaday

William Temple Hornaday

William Temple Hornaday was a hunter, Taxidermist, zoo director  and founder of the American conservation movement.He was born  1 December 1854 outside of Avon, Indiana.William Temple Hornaday working in a taxidermists' laboratory located in a shed behind the Smithsonian Institution Building.

He served as the first director of the New York Zoological Park,  known today as the Bronx Zoo, and he was a pioneer in the early wildlife conservation movement in the United States.He died 6 march 1937 in United States.