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The zoo was also the first in America to exhibit giant pandas, one of which (Su Lin [4]) has been taxidermied and put on display in Chicago's Field Museum of Natural History. In 1960, Brookfield Zoo Chicago built the nation's first fully indoor dolphin exhibit, [5] and in the 1980s, the zoo introduced Tropic World, the first fully indoor ...
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 ...
Ziggy (c. 1917 – October 27, 1975) [1] was a male Indian elephant who lived at Brookfield Zoo outside Chicago from 1936 to 1975. He weighed about six tons and was over ten feet tall. [ 2 ] After attacking and nearly killing his keeper in 1941, Ziggy was chained to the wall of an indoor enclosure, and remained there for nearly three decades.
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, to be a companion for Su Lin at the zoo in February 1938. However, the two animals fought with each other, and were soon separated.
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Brookfield Zoo Chicago recently celebrated the arrival of four adorable meerkat pups, born on February 11.
Brookfield (formerly Grossdale) is a village in Cook County, Illinois, United States, located 13 miles (21 km) west of downtown Chicago. Per the 2020 census , the population was 19,476. [ 2 ] The city is home to the Brookfield Zoo .
BROOKFIELD, Ill. — Brookfield Zoo Chicago is offering free admission on Monday, Jan. 20, in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Free MLK Day admission to the zoo is in addition to its ‘Winter ...