January 14, 2013
Starting in April 2013, Brookfield Zoo guests can take a trip back millions of years and experience Dinosaurs Alive!, presented by Dominick’s. Come and enjoy this unique, fun, and educational exhibit of Tyrannosaurus proportions that will feature supersized animatronic dinosaurs, including favorites like Stegosaurus and Triceratops, as well as obscure dinosaur species with unusual characteristics, like feathers.
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November 21, 2012
Arnieta, a 5-year-old reticulated giraffe at Brookfield Zoo, gave birth to a male calf in the early afternoon on November 12. Until today, mom and calf have been off exhibit to allow for good maternal bonding and to make sure the calf is developing normally. Now they can be seen indoors in the zoo’s Habitat Africa! The Savannah exhibit.
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November 02, 2012
You can see a female southern hairy-nosed baby wombat (called a joey) at Australia House. The not-yet-named joey is the fourth offspring of 12-year-old Kambora, who was born at San Diego Zoo, and the second for Wilbur, 20, who was wild-born in Australia. Although the joey was born more than eight months ago, it wasn’t until mid-September that zookeepers were able to get a good look at the youngster because, like all marsupials, wombat joeys develop in a pouch.
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October 26, 2012
With only 58 Mexican gray wolves living in the wild in New Mexico and Arizona, a 4½-year-old female Mexican gray wolf is leaving Brookfield Zoo to prepare to enter the wild. The release to the wild would help bolster the population of this endangered species. On October 27, the wolf, Ernesta, will relocate to the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service’s (USFWS) Sevilleta Wolf Management Facility near Socorro, NM. Once Ernesta arrives at this facility, she will receive survival skills conditioning through a prerelease “boot camp” to prepare for life in the wild.
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October 04, 2012
Welcome back Allie Dolphin to Brookfield Zoo! Allie has been on a breeding loan at Minnesota Zoo since 2008. While at Brookfield Zoo from 1995 to 2000, she established a bond with Tapeko, Brookfield Zoo’s 30-year-old female dolphin.
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August 13, 2012
Guests visiting Brookfield Zoo’s The Living Coast may have the pleasure of seeing Pepe, a Humboldt penguin who hatched on March 13, waddling along the exhibit’s walkway as an ambassador for his species. On days when the exhibit is not too crowded, zookeepers bring Pepe, now 5-months-old, out to meet the public. They answer questions and share facts about Humboldt penguins as well as some important conservation work taking place in the birds' native country of Peru.
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July 26, 2012
The Chicago Zoological Society (CZS) is leading an initiative to help bring non-releasable southern hairy-nosed wombats from Australia to North America to ensure a sustainable population in zoos.
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June 26, 2012
JoJo, a 32-year-old male silverback gorilla from Lincoln Park Zoo, is now at Brookfield Zoo as part of a breeding program for the critically endangered western lowland gorilla species.
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May 24, 2012
t is not exactly the sound of a stampede but more like the pitter-patter of little hooves that guests can hear at Great Bear Wilderness with the addition of a bison calf born on May 16, 2012. The female calf marks the first birth of this species at Brookfield Zoo since the early 1970s.
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May 19, 2012
Experience the invasion of Xtreme BUGS, presented by Dominick’s, at Brookfield Zoo throughout the summer.
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