Brookfield Zoo Chicago: A checklist of species at the Brookfield Zoo Chicago, Brookfield, Illinois

Data Records

The data in this checklist resource has been published as a Darwin Core Archive (DwC-A), which is a standardized format for sharing biodiversity data as a set of one or more data tables. The core data table contains 451 records.

This IPT archives the data and thus serves as the data repository. The data and resource metadata are available for download in the downloads section. The versions table lists other versions of the resource that have been made publicly available and allows tracking changes made to the resource over time.

Versions

The table below shows only published versions of the resource that are publicly accessible.

Rights

Researchers should respect the following rights statement:

The publisher and rights holder of this work is Brookfield Zoo Chicago. To the extent possible under law, the publisher has waived all rights to these data and has dedicated them to the Public Domain (CC0 1.0). Users may copy, modify, distribute and use the work, including for commercial purposes, without restriction.

GBIF Registration

This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: fad438a9-c88d-4229-a847-71b925d9f4f1.  Brookfield Zoo Chicago publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by GBIF-US.

Keywords

Checklist; Inventorythematic

Contacts

Geographic Coverage

The species listed have been historically cared for or are currently housed at the Brookfield Zoo Chicago, Illinois, United States

Taxonomic Coverage

Species that are part of the current collection at Brookfield Zoo Chicago as of October 2025.

Temporal Coverage

Sampling Methods

Data was generated from Brookfield Zoo Chicago's collection management software ZIMS in October 2025.

Method step description:

1. Data was generated from Brookfield Zoo Chicago's collection management software ZIMS in October 2025.

Collection Data

Additional Metadata