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1973 2001
Tropic World Hamill Family Innovations have continued in the areas of veterinary
Work begins on Tropic World. Play Z oo care and animal welfare and nutrition. In 1994,
The three sections of the Hamill Family Play Zoo Brookfield Zoo veterinarians and Loyola Medical
exhibit—which opened in launches as the first-of-its-kind, Center neurosurgeons performed the first ever human
1982, 1983, and 1984—immerse interactive exhibit for children brain surgical procedure to remove a tumor from
guests in the rain forests of Asia, of all ages and abilities. Chicory, a silverback western lowland gorilla. Another
Africa, and South America. first occurred in 2005 when doctors from Adventist
LaGrange Memorial Hospital performed a successful
2010 2015 uterine fibroid embolization (UFE) procedure on
Beta Gorilla.
Great Bear Hamill Family
More recently, CZS is leading the charge in pangolin
Wi l d e rn e ss Wild Encounters conservation to help save the world’s most-poached
mammal. In 2018, we hosted the first International
Great Bear Wilderness The 3-acre Hamill Family Symposium on Pangolin Care and Conservation.
opens as the largest Wild Encounters opens— We have also made great strides in the care of the zoo’s
exhibit ever constructed an exhibit that offers larger animals. In 2018, veterinarians performed the
at Brookfield Zoo. Iconic guests of all ages hands-on first CT scan of an adult eastern black rhinoceros, and
North American animals— experiences to feed goats in 2019, we performed one of the first CT scans of a
including polar bears, grizzly and get up close with red living polar bear.
bears, bison, bald eagles, pandas, wallabies, emus,
Mexican gray wolves, and and reindeer. The exhibit Edith Rockefeller McCormick once said,
a raven—are featured in also has the largest free- “My objective in the world is to think new thoughts.”
their natural habitats. flight parakeet aviary. Thanks to her unique vision, which took root 100 years
ago, Brookfield Zoo is still driving new thinking and
successes in the zoological world.
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