The Avian Influenza has claimed the lives of a Harbor Seal and a Chilean Flamingo at Chicago's Lincoln Park Zoo. The zoo announced they received results that confirmed the highly pathogenic Avian ...

CHICAGO - Lincoln Park Zoo welcomed two new primate residents, emperor tamarins Sal and Feta. The monkeys have settled into their habitat at the Regenstein Small Mammal-Reptile House, the zoo said.

Lincoln Park Zoo said the specific source of the exposure of the animals to bird flu, or H5N1 virus, is not known.

After two animals died of bird flu in Chicago, the Lincoln Park Zoo’s bird house will be closed for the near future.