Kinkajou (Potos flavus) Fact Sheet: Managed Care

Europe

• Early collection records
  
• Late 1700s: exhibited in London (Pennant 1793)

North American

• First individuals housed at a zoo in the United States
• 1881: Philadelphia Zoo (ZIMS 2014)

Historical notes

• Earliest record
  
• First housed at the San Diego Zoo c. 1922 (C. Penny personal communication; SDZ green card records)

Current population

• 5 individuals, as of 7 November 2014 (from ZIMS 2014)
• 3 at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park
• 2 males; 1 female
• 2 at the San Diego Zoo
• 2 females

Pennant (1793)
ZIMS (2014)