Aside from actually letting a potentially dangerous animal out to practice getting them back in their cage, testing it out on someone in an animal costume seems like the next best thing. The “injured” employees stay on the ground until they’re taken away to an emergency vehicle to be revived. Most of the drills end the same way: zoo employees surround the animal with a makeshift fence, and the animal (again, which is a person in a costume) is tranquilized, dramatically falls to the ground, is netted, and taken away. This is how Japan trainsfor lion escape at the zoo. According to The Mainichi in Japan, the zoo is in an earthquake-prone area, which increases the risk of enclosures being damaged and animals getting out.

Source: National Post June 28, 2019 17:03 UTC