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ROW #623 · LEG 92 ITEM 11 · BOUNDARY-PRINTED · OSCEOLA HALF TESTED NEGATIVE
For Osceola the row closes with the verdict: no collection stood here, so no fire, escape or animal loss on this ground stands in any record reached. For the boundary zoo the record reached is small and prints whole. Its one crime of record: in 1965 vandals stole Toro, the zoo's ocelot; South Bend police found him in a car trunk, and the theft and recovery were carried on Paul Harvey's national newscast — the only individual animal of the zoo's first six decades whose name and story the published record keeps whole, and no harm to him is recorded. Its one named modern death is an age death, not a disaster: Tango, euthanized November 2019 at seventeen for chronic age-related conditions. The transfers in the animals article are SSP moves, not losses, and are not told as losses. Loss at the record's size — no larger, no smaller — is the row's discipline, kept on both sides of the line.
Sources:
- South Bend zoo file, articles “Toro the Ocelot,” “The Lions Return” — the zoo's published timeline (1965); Tribune report, 10 November 2019.