Brookfield Zoo's new Tropical Forests opens July 11, featuring free-roaming primates and a stunning waterfall, creating an ...

Shango and Barney, two western lowland gorillas, will be the first bachelor troop at Brookfield Zoo, joining other primates in the new James & Elizabeth Bramsen Tropical Forests exhibit this summer.

Brookfield Zoo Chicago is celebrating its newest resident as it opens its gates for the weekend, welcoming the birth of a bottlenose dolphin for the first time since 2014.

Brookfield Zoo's baby boom 00:42. The Brookfield Zoo is having a springtime baby boom. All the newborns, many of which are endangered species, will soon be on display for guests to see.

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

Just days after Brookfield Zoo issued the exciting announcement of the first bottlenose dolphin born at the zoo in more than ...

This summer the Brookfield Zoo’s bottlenose dolphin habitat will reverberate with the chatty whistles and playful leaps of a new calf — the first expected to be born there in over a decade.

A dolphin calf’s first year of life, both in the wild and under professional care, is filled with challenges and milestones it must reach. Newborn dolphins must quickly master a ...

Brookfield Zoo has a case of baby fever. Dolphin baby fever, that is. For the first time in 10 years, the zoo is preparing to welcome a dolphin calf to its marine mammal exhibit this summer.

Brookfield Zoo Chicago is one of Chicagoland’s most beloved attractions for families — and it’s one of my favorite places to spend a free day with my loved ones!. I love Brookfield Zoo Chicago year ...

Brookfield Zoo is set to become home to two adult western lowland gorillas, Shango and Barney, who will form the first-ever bachelor troop at the zoo. The brothers will be joining other primates ...