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Crafts Zoos

World Snake Day

July 16, 2018 - July 16, 2018 @ 9:30 am - 3:30 pm

Location

Brookfield Zoo

8400 31st St.

Brookfield, IL 60513

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Description

Brookfield Zoo will celebrate World Snake Day with Zoo Chats, guests can meet a reticulated python or see and learn about recently hatched/born gray-banded kingsnake and Jamaican boa babies and view Atticus, a Burmese python. To remember their zoo visit on World Snake Day, guests can have a photo taken with Millie, a costumed character massasauga rattlesnake. There will also be a snake parade at 1:45 p.m. Afterwards, guests can help decorate pillowcases—the preferred mode used to transport the snakes.

Event Cost: Free with zoo admission.

Event Times: 9:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m.

Additional Information

Website: https://www.czs.org/Brookfield-ZOO/Home

Neighborhood: Western Suburbs

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