Lincoln Park Zoo
Lincoln Park Zoo | |
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41°55′17″N 87°38′02″W / 41.92139°N 87.63389°W | |
Date opened | 1868[1] |
Location | 2204 N. Cannon Drive, Chicago, Illinois, United States |
Land area | 35 acres (14 ha) |
No. of animals | 1,100[2] |
No. of species | 200[2] |
Annual visitors | 3.42 million[3] |
Memberships | AZA[4] |
Major exhibits | Farm-in-the-Zoo, Helen Brach Primate House, Pepper Family Wildlife Center, Kovler Seal Pool, McCormick Bird House, Nature Boardwalk, Pritzker Family Children's Zoo, Regenstein African Journey, Regenstein Center for African Apes, Regenstein Small Mammal-Reptile House[5] |
Public transit access | CTA |
Website | www |
Lincoln Park Zoo, also known as Lincoln Park Zoological Gardens, is a 35-acre (14 ha) zoo in Lincoln Park, Chicago, Illinois. The zoo was founded in 1868, making it the fourth oldest zoo in North America. It is also one of a few free admission zoos in all of North America.[6] The zoo is an accredited member of the Association of Zoos and Aquariums (AZA). The zoo also became an accredited arboretum in 2019.[7][8]
Lincoln Park Zoo is home to a wide variety of animals. The zoo's exhibits include
, and other species totaling about 1,100 animals from some 200 species.Also located in Lincoln Park Zoo was a
History
The zoo was founded in 1868, when the Lincoln Park Commissioners were given a gift of two pairs
From 1888 to 1919 the director of the Lincoln Park Zoo was the flamboyant
Regenstein African Journey, a renovation of the zoo's former Large Mammal House, opened in 2003, turning the zoo's largest building from concrete showcases for a few large mammals into a series of naturalistic settings that tell the story of the wildlife of the African continent, welcoming the return of the zoo's
In 2003, the book The Ark in the Park: The Story of Lincoln Park Zoo was also published by the University of Illinois Press. The book was written by Mark Rosenthal, Carol Tauber, and Edward Uhlir.[26][27]
In 2010, Lincoln Park Zoo transformed the adjacent South Pond to create the
In December 2011, the Kovler Penguin-Seabird House, which had previously been home to rockhopper, king penguins, common murres and puffins closed down after thirty years at the zoo due to worries about the deteriorating condition of the building, prompting outcry from some Chicago residents.[29] It was soon announced it would be replaced with a newly renovated West Gate, featuring a children's train and an all-new exhibit, Regenstein Macaque Forest, featuring Japanese macaques, or "snow monkeys", in a state-of-the-art exhibit with a hot spring, set to open in fall 2014.[30]
It was announced in March 2014 that the zoo's Robert R. McCormick Bear Habitat, or "Bear Line", would be torn down and rebuilt with a large and significantly improved habitat for the zoo's lone polar bear, with much more land area for the bears and a behind-the-scenes den for breeding. [citation needed] The new exhibit would also feature a new African penguin habitat, a new species for the zoo from the tropical coasts of Africa, enabling them to stand the zoo's harsh summers as well as its cold winters. This exhibit would also be fully outdoors and equipped for over a dozen penguins with a behind-the-scenes breeding area. Construction began after the opening of Regenstein Macaque Forest in fall 2014, with Robert and Mayari Pritzker Penguin Cove opening in late 2016.[31]
In 2016, the Zoo announced the Pride of Chicago fundraising campaign, which sought $125 million in funding, and lead to the construction of Regenstein Macaque Forest, Robert and Mayari Pritzker Penguin Cove and Walter Family Arctic Tundra, would conclude with a long-awaited $30 million renovation of the aging Kovler Lion House as part of the Pride of Chicago fundraising campaign, acknowledging the public perception problems with the exhibit, which had been constrained by its Historic Landmark status during previous renovations, most recently in 1992. The new exhibit opened in late 2021 and focuses squarely on lions as opposed to other big cat species it had previously held, such as tigers .[32]
Programming
The zoo together with technological help from the
The Zoo operates a number of youth-focused programs including a number of year-round camps, facilitated school program field trips, and a number of community engagement initiatives that prioritize the Little Village and North Lawndale communities. Both the Little Village and North Lawndale outreach programs include community gardening programs that focus on creating green spaces in Chicago and on promoting healthy eating habits.
Like many other zoos and aquariums nationally, Lincoln Park Zoo adapted many of their programs to the digital format during the COVID-19 pandemic. This included creating modified versions of their local program offerings, such as running their Artecito program, which connects Little Village families with nature through the arts, in conjunction with the OPEN Center for the Arts through free biweekly programs.
Exhibits
The zoo's collection totals nearly 1,100 animals.[2]
Walter Family Arctic Tundra
Redeveloped from the former Robert R. McCormick Bear Habitat in the zoo's northeast corner, Walter Family Arctic Tundra is a new exhibit for the zoo's polar bears, larger than the previous habitat with more land for the bears to roam on; instead of strict rockwork, there is natural grass, a new underwater viewing area, a maternity den, and enough space to support a small breeding family of bears.
Robert and Mayari Pritzker Penguin Cove
Linked to the nearby Regenstein African Journey, Penguin Cove is a new outdoor African penguin exhibit, where visitors can watch as these tropical penguins dive into the water, with a behind-the-scenes area for hatching chicks and breeding the species. The zoo also offers indoor Penguin Encounters.[35] The exhibit opened to the public in October 2016.[31]
Regenstein Macaque Forest
Opened in 2014, Macaque Forest is an exhibit allowing guests to connect with a troop of 10–15 Japanese macaques in a camouflaged forest scene with views from both above and eye-level with the animals. The exhibit features a "hot spring", a trademark favorite of the species, which allows them to warm up in the winter and amuse guests. It also functions as a dedicated research station for the macaques. It is the zoo's third exhibit to house primates.
Regenstein African Journey
The Regenstein African Journey exhibit is a 60,000-square-foot indoor-and-outdoor exhibit which opened in May 2003 on the site of the zoo's former Regenstein Large Mammal House. It simulates four distinct habitats from the African continent. Large skylights permit natural light into the indoor area, and guests are greeted[
The main outdoor exhibit is a large, expansive African savanna setting just outside the indoor exhibit exit that primarily houses the zoo's giraffes. There is also a large yard for a family of African painted dogs, a hog yard that has been used by both common warthogs and currently red river hogs, and multiple yards for the zoo's black rhinos.[24] While many of these animals cannot be viewed indoors, they have access to indoor habitats year-round.
When the exhibit opened, it was also home to three African bush elephants, but they died, the last one dying at Hogle Zoo in 2005, sparking concerns about the exhibit.[37] It later briefly held Bactrian camels, but it is currently an additional home for the zoo's rhinos.[38]
One noted resident of the exhibit was R1 (or Reptile One) the dwarf crocodile, who was seventy years old when he died in 2010, having lived within the zoo's Reptile House (now Park Place Café), the Regenstein Small Mammal-Reptile House, and finally, Regenstein African Journey throughout his life.[39]
Mammals
- Aardvark
- African wild dog
- Diana monkey
- Eastern black rhinoceros
- Giraffe
- Klipspringer
- Meerkat
- Plains zebra
- Pygmy hippopotamus
- Red river hog
Reptiles
Birds
- African spoonbill
- Abdim's stork
- Blue-bellied roller
- Blue-billed teal
- Crested guineafowl
- Hadada ibis
- Northern red-billed hornbill
Invertebrates
Regenstein Center for African Apes
Lincoln Park Zoo's dedication to primate research continued when the Lester E. Fisher Great Ape House was closed and rebuilt with a new focus on the two African ape species, the
The exhibit has three spacious habitats—the 12,000-square-foot Kovler Gorilla Bamboo Forest, an open-air habitat with a moat around it, dedicated to the zoo's main gorilla troop. Two additional exhibits—the
Notable residents of this exhibit include Kwan, the current silverback in the zoo's gorilla troupe who appeared in the film Return to Me as Sidney, a chimpanzee named Optimus Prime, after the fictional character of the same name, and formerly Keo, the oldest male chimpanzee in a North American zoo at the time of his death in September 2013 at fifty-five.[40] Custom-made stuffed animals of Kwan and Optimus in their likenesses are available in the zoo's Wild Things gift shop.
Pritzker Family Children's Zoo
The new Pritzker Family Children's Zoo, which opened in 2004, features a number of native eastern American wildlife, and lets visitors of all ages connect with the wild creatures in our own backyard and engages them to think about how species survive in the wilderness. Small amphibians and reptiles are featured in a small indoor exhibit, along with a leaf-themed climber play area for youngsters designed by Tom Luckey, with slightly larger indoor exhibits for birds and reptiles and large glass windows on each end so guests young and old can watch American beavers and the popular North American river otters swim gracefully underwater at eye-level in their outdoor habitats, with educational displays about how beavers build dams. Outside the building there are many areas where local birds nest. The building is surrounded by small outdoor viewing areas for the same otter and beaver habitats.
There are two significantly larger exhibits surrounding the path around the building for the American black bear and the endangered red wolf featuring heavy foliage and a naturalistic stream, allowing visitors to go eye-to-eye with the animals or for the animals to hide in the foliage. Statues of gray wolves and signs encourage guests to practice howling and teach them about wolf pack dynamics.[41]
Kovler Seal Pool
One of the zoo's most popular exhibits since its first iteration in 1879, the Kovler Seal Pool is one of oldest exhibits at Lincoln Park Zoo. It was renovated most recently in May 1999 in hopes of creating a habitat that most resembles their natural environment in the wild.
There are three main viewing areas—from behind a fence in front of the tank on the main zoo path, an amphitheater-style seating area above the tank on the opposite end, and an underwater viewing gallery where visitors can watch the seals glide through the water.[23] The zoo's pinnipeds are trained voluntarily twice a day, and given fish treats as rewards.[42] Though multiple species of seal and sea lion have lived in the pool together in the past, since May 2013 it has been home only to gray and harbor seals.[43]
- Gray seal
- Harbor seal
Regenstein Small Mammal-Reptile House
The Regenstein Small Mammal-Reptile House is a 32,000-square-foot (3,000 m2) indoor exhibit that opened in 1997 and houses small animals in two main areas: the Gallery and the
Mammals
- Asian small-clawed otter
- Brush-tailed bettong
- Cactus mouse
- Common dwarf mongoose
- Egyptian fruit bat
- Hoffmann's two-toed sloth
- Mohol bushbaby
- Naked mole-rat
- Northern treeshrew
- Prehensile-tailed porcupine
- Pygmy slow loris
- Southern three-banded armadillo
- White-faced saki
Reptiles
- African rock python
- Aruba island rattlesnake
- Black tree monitor
- Eastern massasauga
- Green tree python
- Iranian fat-tailed gecko
- Jamaican iguana
- Northern blue-tongued skink
- Oriente knight anole
- Prehensile-tailed skink
- Red-footed tortoise
- Rio Fuerte beaded lizard
- Spectacled caiman
- Virginia islands boa
- West African Gaboon viper
- Yellow-spotted river turtle
Amphibians
- Amazon milk frog
- Anthony's poison dart frog
- Axolotl
- Dyeing poison dart frog
- Emperor newt
- Oriental fire-bellied toad
- Solomon Islands leaf frog
Fish
Birds
- Puerto Rican parrot
Invertebrates
Regenstein Birds of Prey Exhibit
This popular outdoor exhibit near McCormick Bird House allows visitors to observe powerful birds-of-prey through stunning outdoor aviaries that give them plenty of room to spread their wings or to perch on rocks or tree branches in their enclosures. These exhibits emphasize how birds-of-prey play a role as "nature's clean-up crew". One large, lush outdoor habitat contains multiple specimens, including breeding pairs of cinereous vultures and white stork, while two adjacent aviaries contain the zoo's resident bald eagle and the next features a snowy owl next door.[46] A baby vulture was born at the zoo in June 2013 but was abandoned by its parents and had to be hand-reared and reintroduced gradually.[47]
Helen Brach Primate House
The zoo's historic Primate House first opened in 1927, featuring apes and monkeys from different locations and habitats in a series of small, identical barred cages typical of most early zoo exhibits. It became famous for its apes, including a gorilla named Bushman, until the Great Ape House opened. The Primate House's interior was heavily renovated in the early 1990s and it was re-opened as the Helen Brach Primate House in 1992 with eight diorama-style naturalistic exhibits simulating the swamps and rainforests of the animals' natural habitats in the wild. Perhaps its most notable residents are a family of white-cheeked gibbons that have a spacious room inside as well as an outdoor habitat for playing in the warm winter months. The zoo's male and female gibbons gave birth to baby Daxin on August 16, 2013.[48]
Crowned lemurs joined the exhibit in October 2013 from the Indianapolis Zoo[49] and a baby lemur was born at the zoo on April 14, 2014.[50][51]
McCormick Bird House
One of the zoo's most historic buildings, the McCormick Bird House was first designed in 1904 under Cyrus DeVry, the zoo's original director. It has been redesigned multiple times, most recently in 1991, and is currently home to multiple habitats recreating the
- Abdim's stork
- American avocet
- Baer's pochard
- Bali myna
- Black-necked stilt
- Blue-crowned laughingthrush
- Blue-crowned motmot
- Blue-faced honeyeater
- Blue-grey tanager
- Bourke's parrot
- Chinese hwamei
- Collared finchbill
- Crested wood partridge
- Emerald starling
- Golden-breasted starling
- Green broadbill
- Guam kingfisher
- Guam rail
- Guira cuckoo
- Hamerkop
- Helmeted curassow
- Inca tern
- Jambu fruit dove
- Kagu
- Laughing kookaburra
- Luzon bleeding-heart
- Mandarin duck
- Masked lapwing
- Nicobar pigeon
- Red-billed leiothrix
- Red-capped cardinal
- Scarlet ibis
- Snowy-crowned robin-chat
- Snowy egret
- Spotted thick-knee
- Sunbittern
- Taveta weaver
- Tawny frogmouth
- Violet turaco
- White-headed buffalo weaver
- White-rumped shama
Camel & Zebra Area
The zoo's four-acre Camel & Zebra Area, built in 1982 on the south end of the main zoo, is an oval-shaped series of large grassland exhibits that house the zoo's diverse hoofstock and miscellaneous animals. During construction on Regenstein African Journey, it held the zoo's future Grant's gazelle collection. The Antelope & Zebra Area has historically held several species, including the Arabian oryx, as part of the animals' complex Species Survival Plan, and briefly a pair of sable antelope in 2011. The most recent additions, however, are the waterbuck from Africa and a rarity in an American zoo, the endangered Sichuan takin.[55]
The zoo has been successful with breeding the Sichuan takin—two baby takin were born together at the zoo in January and February 2013[56] and were named Xing Fu ("happy good fortune") and Mengyao ("superior handsomeness") after a poll on the Lincoln Park Zoo website.[57] A baby kangaroo was born December 9, 2013,[58] and later named Jack by nine-year-old Olivia Holness of Chicago.[59]
Waterfowl Lagoon
A lagoon for waterfowl features the zoo's familiar flock of almost fifty[60] Chilean flamingos, who use the exhibit's mudflaps to build nests and use the indoor Flamingo Habitat, sometimes referred to as the Flamingo Dome, during the winter to hide from the cold. It is also home to swan geese.
Hope B. McCormick Swan Pond
Lincoln Park Zoo began with the gift of a pair of swans, and to commemorate its founding and that special moment in history, a pair of
Farm-in-the-Zoo
The Farm-in-the-Zoo Presented by John Deere is across the South Pond from the rest of the zoo, and is designed to "give Chicago Kids a chance to experience a bit of the country in the city." Opened in 1964, it exhibits pigs, cows, horses and other domestic animals. Visitors can pet and feed the animals and roam vegetable gardens. Each day, the cows are milked in public and staff are on hand to explain other elements of farm life. Interactive exhibits allow guests to "hatch" from an egg, learn about farm weather, and about gardening.
Pepper Family Wildlife Center
A historic zoo landmark first built in 1912, the Kovler Lion House building stands at the heart of the zoo near its entrance, and has housed a variety of big cat species over the years, most notably many lions as well as Siberian tigers, which inhabited two grottos on the northern exterior of the building, each having access to multiple indoor areas alongside the interior main hall, and a glass window viewing areas on the end of each grotto for guests to get a closer view. Other big cats, such as the jaguar, were allowed rotating access to two to three indoor window exhibits at a time. The southern exterior included five lush habitats that housed a variety of different cat species over the years. In addition, they also held a pair of red pandas, which were part of the Species Survival Plan.[64][65] The indoor area also has a large gift shop where visitors can purchase plush toys of big cats, bears, and other animals.
Many of the species in the southern habitats shifted over the years, including Amur leopards, Eurasian lynxes, a Pallas's cat, and a puma in the exhibit's later years, with the last major addition being a one-year-old snow leopard named Taza who arrived on December 11, 2014.[66]
One of the exhibit's notable residents was Adelor the African lion, who lived at the zoo from 1995 until his death in February 2012 and was one of the zoo's most popular animals. Upon his death, an anonymous donor paid for a statue of Adelor which now stands at the East Gate.
In 2016, the zoo announced a $30 million renovation of the habitat as part of the Pride of Chicago fundraising campaign, acknowledging the public perception problems of the historic building, and confirming that the focus would be a more naturalistic space for
On March 15/16, 2022, a male lion cub was born following a 3 1⁄2 to 4-month gestation period.[71] The cub is named Pilipili, meaning Pepper in Swahili language, and he is the offspring of lioness Zari and male Jabari.[72] It was the zoo's first lion cub birth in 20 years. Three additional lion cubs were born January 9, 2023 to the same African lion pairing, bringing the total number of lions in the pride up to eight.[73]
Former Exhibits
Bear Habitat
The Robert R. McCormick Bear Habitat, or "Bear Line", sat directly next to Regenstein African Journey, and housed many
The exhibit closed in winter 2014 as work began on the new polar bear and penguin habitats over the same site. The habitat re-opened in late 2016.[77]
Penguin-Seabird Exhibit
First opened in 1981/1982, the zoo's historic Aquatic Bird House featured two main theater-style galleries. The first featured three species of penguin—the
Gallery
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The trumpeter swans were the first gifts that founded the zoo and still present at the zoo.
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Lincoln Park Zoo's Visitor Center
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A lily in bloom, one of the many plants at the zoo
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Giraffe exhibit
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Nature Boardwalk
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Blyth's hornbill (Rhyticeros plicatus)
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Cafe Brauer at the Nature Boardwalk
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Siberian tiger at the zoo
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Concert at the zoo on Earth Day
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Bactrian camels (Camelus bactrianus)
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The annual Zoolights tradition
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Former elephant exhibit
See also
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