Professor David Waugh, director of The Royal Zoological Society of Scotland, said the bequest would help safeguard the future of the zoo and wildlife park.
The Wildlife Conservation Society, which operates the zoo, made the announcement on Sunday and said a necropsy would be performed to determine the cause of death.
The Bronx Zoo's Wildlife Conservation Society is a leader, with 270 projects in 51 countries.
The procedure was carried out in Vietnam by Edinburgh Zoo vet Romain Pizzi, the only UK vet specialising in zoo and wildlife keyhole surgery.
The bonus is that the zoo is relatively porous, meaning that alongside the resident wildlife, you will also come across creatures that have come in from the surrounding jungle, such as agoutis, iguanas, snakes, squirrels and jungle birds of all sorts.
But at the Highland Wildlife Park near Aviemore, Britain's only zoo to have polar bears, they are going in the opposite direction.
The zookeeper was a longtime employee at the wildlife park and had worked with the group of wolves since they were born, the zoo said in a statement on its website.
Dr Sanz worked on the paper with Josep Call, also from the Max Planck Institute of Evolutionary Anthropology, and David Morgan from the Wildlife Conservation Society and Chicago's Lincoln Park Zoo.
In fact they don't even call it a zoo, it is a wildlife park, the animals are slightly more free.
The Bronx Zoo is the city's flagship park run by the Wildlife Conservation Society.
Donations have flooded into Mr Irwin's charity Wildlife Warriors, while flowers, cards and trademark khaki shirts have been left at the Australian Zoo he ran.
The Whitley Wildlife Conservation Trust has recently been awarded a number of key grants and donations, including one from Chester Zoo to cover the cost of the expedition to discover how many of the Sulawesi crested black macaque currently live in the wild.
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