Escaped Zebra caught in downtown Atlanta

A 12-year-old zebra, named Lima, was exercising outside a downtown arena in preparation for an evening show when something spooked him. The zebra broke away from his trainers and bumped up against a fence, then wriggled through an opening and was off and running.

People in downtown Atlanta don’t often see a zebra running down the street like a car with five or six police cars in hot pursuit and a bunch of officers on foot.

Lima led his trainers and police on a 40-minute chase through downtown to the interstate highway that cuts through the center of the city, covering well over a mile along the way. Police cruisers blocked off all southbound lanes of Interstate 75 and were able to herd the zebra over to the right shoulder and off an entrance ramp, where his trainer was on hand to capture and soothe him, Drake said.

The animal belongs to Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus.

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