Just like fire drills in workplace or school , occasionally zoos need to screen out their protocol for how to act in an parking brake situation . The variety of parking brake situations zoos may present , however , are a picayune more playfulness to feign than your traditional " everyone head out of doors and stand up in a line , there ’s a pretend fire " situation .
In a video that went viral this week , mass check a Mandrillus leucophaeus in action at Tobe Zoological Park , in Ehime , Japan , when staff performed a Leo escape drill . Not going to lie , it ’s pretty uproarious to watch over . pay off extra peculiar attending to the actual lions ' faces , which look affronted that they may be being mocked .
In the picture , a menagerie worker acting as a bewildered social lion that has just gained its freedom and is now not sure what to do with it stumbles around in front of stave and onlookers . This especial feigning was free-base on the scenario that there had been an earthquake resulting in the escape cock of a individual social lion . likely why it look so confused .
The zoological garden staff tackled the " lion " using nets and a tranquilizer gun , while the actual lion can be seen looking bewilder , with what can by all odds be described as " what the blaze are these homo doing ? " expression .
The squad was able to surmount and capture the human in a Panthera leo costume , but not before they viciously mauled one of the prole holding the fencing material .
These drills are n’t that strange , and most menagerie carry them out every twelvemonth for such an eventuality – if you think that is an magnification , you could record about successful escapeeshere , here , here , here , here , here , andhere – and several hoi polloi notice that when they had go at zoos , they too had carry out standardized physical exertion .
Some zoos just put more effort into Platonism than others . One Twitter user commented , " I operate in a zoo and can confirm they do these exercise like this . One time they did a rhino drill and very lento labour a golf cart around with a rhino label on it lmao . "
sound far - fetched ? Here are two zookeepers in Tokyo garb up in a rhino costume going on a make-believe violent disorder . ( Turn on the sound for this , the music is amazing . )
But our personal favorite – if wehadto choose – would be this drill at Ueno Zoo in Tokyo , where a guy rope in a polar bear outfit start full method , take out several visitors to the zoo in a mad icy bear frenzy before getting tranqed in the butt .
Or this one of a particularly melodramatic zebra .
