Thursday is also World Sickle Cell Awareness Day, to bring attention to a disease often treated with blood transfusions.

Brookfield Zoo Chicago hopes you'll go bananas over its new primate habitat, one of the largest in the nation. The zoo’s new James and Elizabeth Bramsen Tropical Forests habitat will open on July 11.

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John Ball Zoo leadership is expecting the aquarium to be a national attraction, bringing in visitors from around the country.