A training was conducted assuming that a tiger kept at the Higashiyama Zoo and Botanical Gardens in Nagoya City had escaped from the cage.

About 100 staff members participated in the drill, assuming that the mountain behind the Higashiyama Zoo and Botanical Gardens had collapsed due to heavy rain and the tiger had escaped from the cage.

When the staff found a staff member who played the role of a tiger wearing a costume, they communicated by radio and called out, "The tiger has escaped. Please evacuate to the building to ensure safety."

We tried to use a light truck and a net to chase it down, but the tiger rushed toward the net, hid under slides, and escaped in unexpected passages.

The staff used nets and sticks to gradually push it into a tight space, and finally captured it using two tranquilizer guns about 40 minutes after the training began.



It is said that the keeper in charge of medaka was the one who wore the tiger costume.

Tetsuya Imanishi, chief of the Higashiyama Comprehensive Park Zoo Management Division, said, "We had made a rough study in advance, but the tigers had a hard time following an unexpected course. Now that we have confirmed the issues, we would like to make use of them in our future response. I was talking.

There are also cases in which escaped tigers attack people in American zoos

Overseas, there have been cases of tigers kept in zoos escaping from cages.



In 2007, an Amur tiger escaped from a cage at a zoo in California, USA, killing one and injuring two.



In 1936, a captive black leopard escaped from the Ueno Zoo in Tokyo.



Afterwards, they were captured and no one was injured, but they triggered regular drills to prepare for an escape.



Recently, a flamingo escaped from Asahiyama Zoo in Asahikawa, Hokkaido in 2012, and a chimpanzee escaped from a zoo in Miyazaki in 2019.



In 2009 and 2012, monkeys escaped from the Higashiyama Zoo and Botanical Gardens.



All were captured within a week, and no one was injured, but a search was conducted every day.



Every year at the zoo, we train for hippos, wolves, and other animals that escape from different assumptions.