at Brookfield Zoo “She picked up the boy, kind of cradling him, and walked him around,” Sondra Catzen, a zoo spokeswoman, told the Tribune at the time. At first it appeared the boy had been ...

BROOKFIELD, Ill. (CBS)-- A boy, now 18 years old, owes his life to the maternal instincts of a gorilla at Brookfield Zoo. As WBBM Newsradio's Regine Schlesinger reports, Tuesday marks the ...

A three-year-old boy who fell into a gorilla enclosure in a United States zoo was saved by a gorilla living in the cage, cradling the baby on her back. The incident, which occurred in 1996, saw a ...

WASHINGTON — Brookfield Zoo Chicago is mourning the sudden death of its four-day-old bottlenose dolphin calf . The male ...

Brookfield Zoo Chicago is celebrating the birth of a bottlenose dolphin for the first time in more than a decade. Allie welcomed her calf at 12:22 a.m. Saturday in one of the pools in Seven Seas ...

One such moment happened over two decades ago at the Brookfield Zoo in Illinois, when Binti Jua, a 160-pound female gorilla, ...

A bottlenose dolphin at the Brookfield Zoo Chicago gave birth to a calf early Saturday morning with the help of a fellow mom.

A bottlenose dolphin at the Brookfield Zoo Chicago gave birth to a calf early Saturday morning with the help of a fellow mom ...