Facing financial troubles, Ivan’s owners allowed Ivan to move to the Woodland Park Zoo in Seattle, which then sent Ivan to Zoo Atlanta in 1994 on permanent loan. In the late 1980s, the animal welfare group PAWS began to agitate for Ivan to be moved to a more naturalistic environment. He spent the next 23 years of his life there. For three years, Ivan lived like a child in his owner’s home-but when he became too large and rambunctious, he was moved to a 14x14-foot enclosure in the B&I strip mall. The female died in transit to the United States or shortly after arriving in the country, but the owner of the B&I department store in Tacoma, Washington purchased Ivan. Ivan the gorilla was around two years old when he and a female infant gorilla were captured in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in 1964. The One and Only Ivan is based on a true story.
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