Brookfield Zoo

Dolphinarium

Brookfield Zoo is a zoo located in the Chicago suburb of Brookfield. The zoo covers an area of 57.4 hectares. The animal population includes 424 animals in over 280 species.

The zoo opened its doors July 1, 1934 and quickly gained international recognition because he generous ravines and ditches used instead of many grid to separate the animals from the visitors. The zoo was also the first in America who put giant pandas on display, a copy of which was prepared and submitted to the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago. Built in 1960, the zoo, the first fully covered dolphinarium of the United States, and in the eighties the first rainforest hall. In contrast to the urban Lincoln Zoo in Chicago Brookfield Zoo is mainly privately funded and tries clearer, offer visitors a unique experience. In particular, the numerous attractive explanations of the animals shown are exemplary. The Monkey House is certainly unique in the world.

Visitors from abroad should visit the zoo from Chicago not without their own transport, because the connection to the public transport is very bad.

Famous Animals

The most famous resident of the zoo was probably Ziggy, an elephant male with a weight of 6.5 tons, which was held for almost thirty years only in his stall the elephant house after he attacked his coach in 1941. During the sixties and seventies, Ziggy attained great fame, whereupon he was " released " in 1973. To the great regret, he fell in March 1975 in the trench cut-off of its investment and died seven months later.

Another animal that reached cult status, Binti Jua was a female gorilla. 1996 was a boy in the gorilla enclosure, Binti Jua and took the boy unharmed to their guards. Binti Jua still lives at Brookfield Zoo and is very popular with visitors.

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