Embed from Getty Images Zookeepers in many places hold drills to practice catching an escaped animal, but zoos in Japan have elevated such drills to public relations events, with a zookeeper wearing...

Can you tell the difference?A strange incident was...  ...strange incident was reported at the Loro Parque zoo in Tenerife, Canary Islands. A zoo employee had donned a gorilla suit and looked a l...  ...d a gorilla suit and looked a little too real for zoo visitors and one vete...

Photo: Toshufumi Kitamura Japan i...  ...quake country, so the staff at the Tama Zoo in Tokyo, Japan, are preparing for the contingenc...  ...ape after an earthquake. In this annual drill , one lucky staff member got to be the e...  ...to be the escapee zebra, while the rest of the *st...

[caption id="attachment_70365" align="aligncenter"...  ...r was caught while playing an escaped tiger at a zoo in China during an emergency drill :June 2nd, Sichuan Chengdu Zoo , a tranquilized “tiger” being carried...  ...watches through the glass. That day, th...

(YouTube link) Zookeepers at the Tama Zoo and the Ueno Zoo , both in Tokyo, undergo annual training in what t...  ...nnot use real animals. This year's escaped animal drill at the Ueno Zoo featured...

[http://youtu.be/bXF6q4Vtecw](YouTube link)The Tam...  ...ttp://youtu.be/bXF6q4Vtecw](YouTube link)The Tama Zoo and the Ueno Zoo (both in Tokyo) perform annual training drills so that zookeepers know what to do when an animal escapes. Sinc...

(YouTube link)We previously showed you...  ...link)We previously showed you video from the Ueno Zoo in Tokyo, where they use fake animals to train fo...  ...use fake animals to train for escapes. The latest drill features a rhinoceros! An escaped rhinoceros? The...

(Live Leak link) If you are going to the Ueno Zoo in Tokyo, you want to be there on drill day. Zookeepers train for escaped animal emergencies once a year,...  ...nce a year, but they can’t use real animals for drills , so they dress...