I knew then that Lincoln Park Zoo, and me personally, would do everything we could to support Chimp Haven.” Thus did Bell OK the collaboration between the two institutions, a move that Ross ...

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Dead set against people keeping chimpanzees as pets, Lincoln Park Zoo primatologist Steve Ross flew to Montana last year to face Jeanne Rizzotto, a wealthy Realtor who had declared on national ...

Lincoln Park Zoo’s Project ChimpCARE is helping rehabilitate chimpanzees that were once pets or used in Hollywood films, The New York Times reports. Chimps in the wild live in large social ...

It was a rainy morning at the Lincoln Park Zoo in Chicago, and at the chimpanzee exhibit, it was the children who were hooting and hollering. The apes themselves were placid, ignoring their rowdy ...

For chimpanzees in captivity, the average life span is 32.5 years for males and 40.1 years for females, according to Lincoln Park Zoo’s ChimpDATA. Delilah can claim a famous friend.

It is also the first dedicated chimpanzee habitat to open at an accredited United States zoo since Chicago’s Lincoln Park Zoo opened its chimpanzee space in 2004. “To me, ...

CHICAGO — Huge crowds will flock to the Lake Michigan shoreline this weekend for the annual Chicago Air and Water Show, and the animals at the Lincoln Park Zoo will get a front-row seat. But how ...

So I traveled to Chicago’s Lincoln Park Zoo, to meet Eli and Susie, a bonded pair of former performers. Susie was a petite 18-year-old, fiercely protective of 15-year-old Eli, among the last ...