1. Mara, the hippopotamus
The young female hippo is 18 years old, and she weighs 3,610 pounds. She came from the Los Angeles Zoo and now lives at the Honolulu Zoo’s African Savanna exhibit with Louise, a 30-year-old hippo. Hippopotamus are considered a vulnerable species.
2. Kendi and Aria, two black rhinoceros
Kendi, who is 5, weighs 2,205 pounds and Aria, who is 8, weighs 2,850 pounds. Both rhinos came from the San Diego Safari Park. The rhino pair will live in the newly renovated rhino exhibit in the African Savanna at the Honolulu Zoo. The zoo hopes the two rhinos will produce baby rhinos. Eastern black rhinos are critically endangered.
3. Scruffy, a female Malayan sun bear
Scruffy is a 30-year-old, 73-pound, female Malayan sun bear. She came from the Cleveland Zoo and now lives at the Honolulu Zoo with the resident male sun bear, Blackie, who was previously housed with Scruffy at the Cleveland Zoo. Malayan sun bears are a vulnerable species.
4. Aukai, Moana and Vaitea, a family of fennec foxes
Aukai is the daddy, Moana is the mommy and Vaitea is the baby fennec fox. After Aukai and Moana arrived at the Honolulu Zoo, the pair was quarantined for 120 days, and surprise, Moana gave birth to Vaitea, a baby boy fox. Moana and Aukai were saved in a large rescue mission after 300 fennec foxes were found on a farm malnourished, neglected and abused. The foxes live together at the Honolulu Zoo’s African savanna exhibit.
5. Anala and Seattle, two Sumatran tigers
Seattle is a 15-year-old male Sumatran tiger, who came from the Baton Rouge Zoo in Louisiana. He weighs 220 pounds. Anala is a 5-year-old female Sumatran tiger, who was raised in Central Florida. She weighs 207 pounds. They both live at the Honolulu Zoo’s tiger exhibit with the resident female tiger, 23-year-old Chrissie, who is Anala’s grandmother. Listed as a critically endangered species, Anala and Seattle were paired in the hopes that they will breed.