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         DISABILITIES
         DISABILITIES                                  For more information, contact Patricia Steinmeyer, Manager,
         Visitors with disabilities: Please call (708) 688-8338    Professional Learning and K-12 Academics Department
         for accessibility information.                at EDK12@BrookfieldZoo.org.  .
                                                       The Professional Learning and K-12 Academics Department, including
                                                       the Teaching Safari program, is made possible in part by support from:
                                                       CDW, the Christopher Family Foundation, the Polk Bros. Foundation,
                                                       the Women’s Board of the Chicago Zoological Society, and the Institute
                                                       of Museum and Library Services Grant MA-255725-OMS-24.
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