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.

The Brookfield Zoo Chicago welcomed a bottlenose dolphin calf early Saturday morning, the zoo’s first dolphin birth since 2014. Allie, a 38-year-old bottlenose dolphin, gave birth at 12:22 a.m ...

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 ...

CHICAGO - One of the most rare and endangered dragonflies in Illinois is getting a lifeline at the Brookfield Zoo, which is among several local institutions raising another species of animal that ...

Brookfield Zoo announced that one of its Amur tigers, Malena, was humanely euthanized this week due to life-threatening health issues. Animal care specialists noticed changes in Malena’s ...

Brookfield Zoo Chicago opened its new Tropical Forests primate habitat Friday, featuring an expanded space for the zoo’s first troop of bachelor gorillas and endangered black-handed spider ...

A bottlenose dolphin delivered a calf Saturday morning at Brookfield Zoo Chicago, a “momentous occasion” that marks the first dolphin birth there in more than a decade.

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 ...