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.

Roosevelt Park Zoo will celebrate World Giraffe Day on Saturday, June 21, with the grand opening of its new giraffe habitat ...