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Philadelphia Zoo

The Philadelphia Zoo hosts "Boo at the Zoo" over three weekends in October, featuring penguins eating pumpkins, children in costume eating candy, and a trio of new baby animals.

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The Philadelphia Zoo presents Jambi, a male baby Sumatran orangutan, to the public on Wednesday. He clings to his mother Tua, who birthed him in June.

Philadelphia Zoo introduces Jambi, the first Sumatran orangutan born there in 15 years

Beatrice Forman

The Philadelphia Zoo’s baby Sumatran orangutan, the first birth of this species at the Zoo in 15 years, on June 26.

The Philadelphia Zoo welcomes the first Sumatran orangutan born there in 15 years

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The Philadelphia Zoo celebrates its 150th anniversary

April4, 1931. John Regan, keeper, and C. Emerson Brown (right), superintendent of the Philadelphia Zoological Gardens, photographed with two of the European white storks that are among springtime arrivals.

The Philadelphia Zoo turned 150. Here’s what it was like when it opened.

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