Escaped 'Rhino' Successfully Captured In Tokyo

By Mark Memmott

Published February 9, 2012 at 2:40 PM CST

In 2010, it was a guy dressed up in a tiger suit that wouldn't have scared many toddlers. One year keepers successfully captured a "zebra."

This year, officials at the Ueno Zoo in Tokyo had two guys in a papier-mâché rhino suit be the "escaped animal" in what The Telegraphsays is an annual drill at various zoos around Tokyo.

Mark Memmott

Mark Memmott is NPR's supervising senior editor for Standards & Practices. In that role, he's a resource for NPR's journalists – helping them raise the right questions as they do their work and uphold the organization's standards.

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