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Brookfield Zoo Chicago opened its new Tropical Forests primate habitat Friday, featuring an expanded space for the zoo’s ...
A new primate habitat was unveiled at Brookfield Zoo Thursday, which will include four outdoor habitats for western lowland ...
Everyone is going bananas for the new Tropical Forests display at Brookfield Zoo Chicago.
The Brookfield Zoo opened a new three-acre exhibit for primates to climb and explore on Friday.Zoo leaders and local politicians welcomed donors and guests for a ribbon-cutting ceremony for the $66m ...
Adkesson, president and CEO of Brookfield Zoo, Elizabeth Bramsen, Ald. Anthony Quezada (35th) participate in a ribbon cutting ...
Brookfield Zoo Chicago opened a new exhibit Monday where kids can see bees up close — and even learn what it’s like to be one — with the hope they go home and work to protect them. Located ...
BROOKFIELD, Ill. - Brookfield Zoo has welcomed a baby squirrel monkey to the zoo, as part of a species survival plan. The young male, born to a mother named Gizmo, is already showing signs of being ...
BROOKFIELD, Ill. — After spending five seasons visiting the Minnesota Zoo, six bottlenose dolphins are making their return to the Brookfield Zoo Friday, when the Seven Seas Underwater Exhibit ...
Brookfield Zoo announces massive redevelopment The zoo will combine species in exhibits to help guests feel like they’re observing animals in the wild, President and CEO Michael Adkesson said.
In 1996, a 3-year-old boy tumbled 24 feet into a gorilla enclosure at an Illinois zoo. Then, a Western Lowland Gorilla named ...
The Brookfield Zoo is hosting its Ice Age Giants exhibit. Guests can see more than 30 life-sized animatronic animals that once roamed North America and Eurasia - including a woolly mammoth, saber ...
Koalas made their debut Tuesday at Brookfield Zoo Chicago for the first time in the zoo's 90-year history. Members of the zoo got a sneak preview of the koalas before the exhibit opened to the public.