Animals of record — and the devils placed where they belong

ROW #622 · LEG 92 ITEM 10 · BOUNDARY-PRINTED

The Tasmanian devils first, because the checklist names them and they are not this zoo's: the North American devil record — twelve devils housed 1987–2004, more than any other North American zoo, and Coolah, the last devil living anywhere outside Australia when he died in 2004 — belongs to the Fort Wayne Children's Zoo, in Fort Wayne's build, verified there and excluded here by name. Potawatomi's record reached carries no devil, and none is borrowed. Its own animals of record, named as the zoo names them: Toro the ocelot (below); the capuchin born in 1963, the first South American primate born there; the okapi — in 2017 the first AZA-accredited zoo in Indiana to exhibit them, two males received; Pearl the Amur leopard, nine cubs from 2007 and a final pair in 2016, in a breeding record that also names Chacoan peccaries and southern three-banded armadillos; the lion brothers Tango and Onyo (arrived 2002; Tango euthanized November 2019, aged seventeen), then the pride of May 2023 — Kembe, and the sisters Shaba and Shtuko, rescued in South Africa, together since 2013; the giraffes Seymour, Maximus, Wyatt and Kellan (arrived late 2021), Zindzhi (arrived pregnant, November 2023) and her calf Hadassah (born 13 October 2024, the first Masai giraffe calf born at the zoo); the rhinos Masamba, the zoo's first (arrived 2019, aged three; moved to The Wilds, Ohio, fall 2025 on the Species Survival Plan's breeding recommendation) and Frankie, twenty-three, from Brevard Zoo (announced 26 February 2026, arriving that spring); the Andean bears Muniri (debut 30 August 2023) and brothers Ian and Sean, all three housed together through 2026; and the departing chimpanzees Alex (to Baltimore, April 2019) and Baby Face, 47, and Randi, 34 (to Salina, Kansas, announced 8 September 2020) — SSP moves, not losses. No orangutan is named in Potawatomi's record reached, and none is supplied from another zoo's roll.

Sources:

1. South Bend zoo file, articles “Toro,” “Okapi Arrive; the Chimpanzees Leave,” “The Giraffes,” “The Lions Return,” “The Rhinos” — zoo releases 2020–2026; Fall 2025 Uproar; Tribune, November 2019 and March 2026; Brevard Zoo release, 26 February 2026.
2. Fort Wayne Children's Zoo devil record, via Save the Tasmanian Devil Program coverage, January 2015 — Fort Wayne's whole, cited only to place it.