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The zoo recently added two male plains zebras to its freshly renovated African Savanna exhibit.
The zoo is expanding its emphasis from exotic animals to urban wildlife found in your own backyard.
The mongoose pups were born Oct. 7 and the piglets were born Monday.
The new train ride takes kids through an evergreen forest and over a bridge near the zoo's west gate.
The Japanese Macaque exhibit is expected to open this fall.
Portage Park native and North Park University grad Dave Bernier has been at the zoo for 25 years.
From Hot Doug's owner to ex-Bear Steve Edwards, the city's dignataries had many reasons to be thankful.
Keo, a 55-year-old father of 11, suffered from advanced heart disease and was euthanized Monday.
The new project is part of a $15 million effort that includes a revamped children's train.
Nayembi's facial cut is healing, her appetite is good, and she's playing, zoo president said.
The zoo's newest resident, one of just 20 in the nation's zoos, weighed just 0.3 ounces at birth.
After suffering a serious facial injury last week, her recovery "isn't a certainty," zoo officials said.
The zoo is asking for the public's help in naming the boys, who were born just 9 days apart.
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