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”COOLEST”

CREATURES

AROUND!

SUPPORTED BY

When:
Through summer until
Sunday, October 30

Mastodon. Woolly mammoth. Short-faced bear. Saber-toothed cat. At 12 feet tall, a giant woolly mammoth and a flightless moa bird
These are just a few of the more than 30 Ice Age giants you can stand guard at the zoo’s North Gate entrance. You’ll see animals
now see at Brookfield Zoo. They are life-sized, animatronic hunting and fighting: a giant cave lion attacking a giant-antlered
re-creations of giant animals that shared North America and Irish elk and a Tasmanian wolf with a 29-foot-long Wonambi
Eurasia with our early human ancestors. snake wriggling in its jaws. There are tamer scenes as well,
Fossil evidence shows that early humans hunted them for their including a giant ground sloth standing on its hind legs to feed
meat, fur, teeth, and bones. The animals mysteriously died off on a tree and a baby giant lemur riding on its mother’s back.
in a mass extinction that ended about 10,000 years ago. You can For 30 years, the display’s creator, Don Lessem, CEO of Dino
see them FREE with general admission. Don, Inc., has been digging for, reconstructing, writing about,
The robotic creatures are huge and lifelike with body parts— and roboticizing dinosaurs and other creatures from the past.
head, eyes, mouth, and tail—that move as they did in real life. Don’t miss it!

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