By JAN UEBELHERR Did you hear about the new baby at the zoo? Sure, everyone knows about Mahal the orangutan, and he's a great reason to visit the Milwaukee County Zoo. But there are other animals -- and yes, other zoo babies -- living there. Consider the 2-month-old baby Baird's tapir named Chac.

Michael Robinson, credited with transforming Washington's National Zoo into a hospitable place for both humans and animals, has died of pancreatic cancer at 79.

By Jan Uebelherr, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Feb. 8--When the Milwaukee County Zoo needed a way to get a baby orangutan here from a zoo in Colorado, Terry Kohler and his wife, Mary, stepped up to the plate. Again.

By Jackie Loohauis, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Aug. 14--An authentic aquatic expert at the Milwaukee County Zoo will teach you all about sea lions this summer for a price: A big, smelly herring.

CHICAGO - The apes at Lincoln Park Zoo are finally getting a chance to take their revenge on people who for years have been pounding their palms against the glass walls of the primates' old home.