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Lincoln Park Zoo’s Urban Wildlife Institute observes wildlife at Nature Boardwalk year-round. Currently, we are
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South of the zoo’s main grounds, wild animals adapt to winter by relying on natural habitat at the zoo’s Nature Boardwalk. In this prairie pond ecosystem, grasses and other native plants are brown
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As part of our ongoing research monitoring bats around the Chicago region, we’ve set out acoustic (sound) detectors at several sites to see how bats are using the city. Although bats can see, they
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Start your weekend surrounded by rattlesnake masters...and purple coneflowers and compass plants...at our FREE Second Saturdays Garden
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If you’ve walked past or through the Pritzker Family Children’s Zoo this summer you might have noticed the black-crowned night herons nesting high up in the trees.
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A recent post on the zoo’s Twitter feed, which included a photo of basking turtles at Nature Boardwalk at Lincoln Park Zoo, inspired the
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The transition between late winter and early spring is a truly exciting time—especially in Chicago. After months of layering up and trudging through the blistering cold, stir-crazy Chicagoans jump
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Spring is finally starting to appear and with it comes the return of wildflowers and butterflies. For the past few summers, teen researchers in the zoo’s Research Apprentice Program have conducted
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If you’ve walked around Nature Boardwalk at Lincoln Park Zoo recently you might have spotted a great blue heron fishing around the pond.
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