Hogle zoo might want to take note of how to train for animals on the run.

Sure, Hogle zoo has not seen an escapee since 2016 when a park visitor saw a leopard lying on a beam 15 feet up just outside her cage.

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Sure, they have trained marksman that were able to tranquilize Zeya, the Amur Leopard who happened to be asleep so she didn't even notice the tranquilizer dart, allowing zoo personnel to carefully get her down and into a medical bay to make sure she was OK.

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And sure, they quickly escorted guests into indoor areas to keep them safe while they handled the situation, but how did they get such great training?

If they are looking for ideas, they may consider a human stand in like they did at the Tobu Zoo in Japan.

This video of a zoo employee dressed as a white tiger that has escaped has gone viral. The zoo put their plan into action with the man roaming the grounds free of a cage. Soon they had the man/tiger "tranquilized", "netted" and "back in the cage". I hope they didn't put him in the cage with the real tigers. I think it was a cage for human escapees dressed in animal costumes.

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It looks silly, but it makes pretty good sense. The man who posed as a tiger knows the behavior of cats, was able to create as scenario for workers to react to and if the situation got out of hand, they could reason with him or maybe lure him into a cage with a hazard pay bonus check.

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