Police capture escaped zebra in downtown Atlanta
Rush hour traffic in Atlanta came into a standstill Thursday afternoon when an runaway circus zebra galloped along a busy area of highway. Animal was first spotted around 4:30 p.m. in downtown Atlanta, said Georgia Department of Transportation spokeswoman Monica Luck.
The animal made its way through downtown to the interstate highway that cuts through the center of the city. Police cruisers blocked off all southbound lanes and could herd the zebra over for the right shoulder and off an entrance ramp, Luck said.
Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus is at town this week. The circus also had a group of elephants corralled Thursday in the downtown Atlanta parking lot.
It’s not the first time a zebra have been spotted along a metro Atlanta highway. In April 2008, a 2- to 3-month old zebra was found injured along Interstate 75. Authorities said during the time they thought the young zebra had likely fallen from the truck passing through Georgia and was then hit by the car.
The zebra in the 2008 incident was rushed into the veterinary school at Auburn University in Alabama, where he received several operations. He ended up being taken to the Noah’s Ark animal rescue center in Locust Grove, Ga., where he was named Evidence and still lives today.
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