A mother and baby zebra escaped their enclosure at the Franklin Park Zoo today, forcing the zoo to evacuate some visitors - and herd others into the buttefly exhibit - as workers sought to re-capture the pair.
Zoo New England reports no visitors or staff were harmed by the two Grevy's zebras. Today was the baby's first day on exhibit. "Zoo staff are working on getting the adult zebra back into exhibit space. She is currently safely contained in a non-public area."
Police were called to the scene to help corral mom zebra - a dispatcher informed officers the animal was black and white - but after kidlet got back into the enclosure, zookeepers managed to direct the older striper back in as well. Meanwhile, downtown, police were picking up "intelligence," specifically, a rapidly growing number of tweets about zebras in Franklin Park, that they felt showed the call might be an Occupy Boston prank, until they got real intelligence that, in fact, two zebras really were on the loose and that people protesting Wall Street had nothing to do with it.
Naturally, Franklin Park Zebra now has a Twitter account:
Headed to #occupyboston
People on the Orange Line are staring at me. It's not like I'm a lion or something. #racism
