This summer the Brookfield Zoo’s bottlenose dolphin habitat will reverberate with the chatty whistles and playful leaps of a new calf — the first expected to be born there in over a decade.

Juvenile bottlenose dolphins possess specialized receptors on their tongues to detect fatty acids in their mother's milk, compensating for their limited olfactory capabilities in aquatic environments.

Allie, a 37-year-old bottlenose dolphin, is in her second trimester and is expected to give birth in June. Brookfield Zoo Chicago Share Brookfield Zoo has a case of baby fever. Dolphin baby fever ...

The 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill resulted in large-scale oil contamination of the northern Gulf of Mexico and consequentially caused long-term health effects and reduced reproductive success in ...