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Brookfield Zoo Chicago, also known as the Chicago Zoological Park, [ 2 ][ 3 ] is a zoo located in the Chicago suburb of Brookfield, Illinois. It houses around 450 species of animals in an area of 216 acres (87 ha). It opened on July 1, 1934, and quickly gained international recognition for using moats and ditches instead of cages to separate ...
Binti Jua (born March 17, 1988) is a female western lowland gorilla resident at the Brookfield Zoo, in Brookfield, Illinois, outside Chicago, United States. She received media attention after a situation in 1996 in which she tended to a three-year-old boy who had been injured by falling into her enclosure. Binti Jua (whose name means "Daughter ...
Owner. Brookfield Zoo. Cookie (June 30, 1933 – August 27, 2016) was a male pink cockatoo (also known as Major Mitchell's cockatoo) residing at Brookfield Zoo, near Chicago, Illinois, United States. He was believed to be the oldest member of his species alive in captivity, at the age of 82 in June 2015, [1][2] having significantly exceeded the ...
The Brookfield Zoo in Chicago shared some happy news over the weekend, with the announcement that their blind rescue grey seal named Georgette (Nickname, 'Georgie') has given birth to her first pup!
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Harkness returned to America with the bottle-fed cub, and Su Lin became the first live panda to be displayed in the United States. In April 1937, the panda was purchased by Brookfield Zoo outside of Chicago, where he was visited by such celebrities as Shirley Temple, Kermit Roosevelt, and Helen Hayes. Harkness brought a second panda, Mei-Mei ...
Lincoln Park Zoo, also known as Lincoln Park Zoological Gardens, is a 35-acre (14 ha) zoo in Lincoln Park, Chicago, Illinois. The zoo was founded in 1868 and is the second oldest zoo in the United States. It is also one of a small number of zoos to offer free admission. [ 6 ] The zoo is an accredited member of the Association of Zoos and ...
Devan McGuinness. September 14, 2024 at 4:30 PM. Shutterstock. This is exciting news for the Great Plains Zoo, which is celebrating the birth of a fluffy Pallas' Cat—and he's a real cutie. On ...