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The Brookfield Zoo is a zoo located in the Chicago suburb of Brookfield, Illinois. The zoo covers an area of 200 acres (809,000 m²) and houses over 400 species of animals.

Brookfield Zoo opened on July 1, 1934 and quickly gained international recognition for using moats and ditches, instead of cages, to separate animals from visitors. The zoo was also the first in America to exhibit giant pandas, one of which has been taxidermied and put on display in Chicago's Field Museum of Natural History. In 1960, Brookfield Zoo built the nation's first fully-indoor dolphin exhbit, and in the 1980s the zoo introduced Tropic World, the first fully-indoor rain forest simulation.

Perhaps the most famous resident of Brookfield Zoo was Ziggy, a 6.5 ton bull elephant that was kept in an indoor enclosure for nearly thirty years after it attacked its trainer in 1941. During the 1960s and 1970s, Ziggy attained a cult following in the Chicago area, and the elephant was finally released in 1973 amid much fanfare. Unfortunately, the elephant fell into his exhibit's moat in March 1975 and died seven months later.

One of the zoos most well-known current residents is Binti Jua, a female Western lowland gorilla. On August 16,1996, a young boy fell into the gorilla exhibit of Tropic World, and Binti Jua carefully cradled the boy and brought him to her trainers. The incident received international attention, inspiring a lively debate as to whether Binti Jua's actions were the result of the training she received from her keepers (who had taught her to bring her own baby, Koola, to zoo curators for inspection) or some instinctive sense of altruism.

Gallery

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List of Animals

A - J

Aardvark
Addax
African elephant
African giant millipede
African lion
African wild dog
Alligator snapping turtle
American alligator
Amur tiger (formerly known as Siberian tiger)
Andean condor
Asian small-clawed otter
Atlantic bottlenose dolphin

Bactrian camel
Bald eagle
Bali mynah
Bat-eared fox
Binturong
Black rhinoceros
Black-handed spider monkey
Blue poison frog
Blue-winged teal
Bonnethead Shark
Brown bear

California sea lion
Callimico
Caracal
Chinchilla
Clouded leopard
Colobus monkey
Cotton-top tamarin

Degu
Double crested cormorant
Double striped thick-knee

Eastern box turtle

Gambel's quail
Giant anteater
Green heron
Green moray eel
Green-winged teal
Golden lion tamarin
Grey gull
Gray wolf
Groundhog
Guinea baboon

Half moon perch
Hippopotamus
Hooded merganser
Humboldt penguin

Inca Tern

K - T

Kelp bass
Klipspringer

Lookdown
Lowland (or Brazilian) Tapir
Little blue heron

Meerkat
Missouri river otter
Micronesian kingfisher - Guam subspecies
Mongoose lemur

Naked mole-rat
North American river otter
Northern Cardinal

Ochre sea star
Okapi
Orangutan

Pacific seahorse
Pacific walrus
Polar bear
Popeye catalufa
Puerto Rican boa
Pygmy hippopotamus

Red river hog
Red-capped mangabey
Reindeer
Reticulated giraffe
Ring-tailed lemur
Roadrunner
Rodrigues fruit bat

Sloth bear
Snowy egret
Southern hairy-nosed wombat
Spectacled bear
Striped surf perch

Tree shrew
Trumpeter swan

Vampire Bat

W - Z

Western gray kangaroo
Western lowland gorilla
White-cheeked gibbon
White ibis
Wood stork

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