Brookfield Zoo Chicago
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Brookfield Zoo Chicago, known until 2024 as simply Brookfield Zoo, and also known as the Chicago Zoological Park, is a zoo located in Brookfield, Illinois. Brookfield Zoo is owned by the Forest Preser
Brookfield Zoo Chicago, North Gate
Entrance to Brookfield Zoo Chicago, c. 1930s
Zookeeper with baby animals, c. 1940s
The Seven Seas Dolphinarium, c. 2000
Ziggy (elephant)
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Ziggy was a male Indian elephant who lived at Brookfield Zoo outside Chicago from 1936 to 1975. He weighed about six tons and was over ten feet tall. After attacking and nearly killing his keeper in 1
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…Cookie, a Major Mitchell's cockatoo, had been part of the zoo's collection since the opening in 1934, until his death in 2016. Ziggy was a 6-ton male Asian elephant who was chained in the Pachyderm House for three decades, due to him attacking his keeper in 1941. Australia: Bennett's…
Ziggy the Elephant