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Bombe purchased for New York Central Park Zoo

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This male Indian rhino arrived June 19, 1886 after being purchased for $5000 from an animal dealer in Hamburg. Previously the animal had outgrown life in a French traveling menagerie. Bombe unexpectedly died on June 26 which was the source of much discussion in local newspapers.

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