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Zebra remains on the loose in Washington state, officials close trailheads
- dudeinjapan 2y agoIt would be easier to catch if it wasn’t camouflage.
- scrumper 2y agoDefinitely need some specialist help; I'm sure Seattle Zoo has a leopard they could borrow.
- daedalus_j 2y agoHaving lived in the area for several decades: there are leopards about already! It's actually kind of impressive that the zebra managed to avoid becoming cougar lunch, it's not like she blends in with the local moss and trees very well...
- jjtheblunt 2y agoIt was caught a day ago and traveled to the rest of its “dazzle” in Montana.
- xattt 2y agoTangential, but let’s talk collective nouns of animals. I’ve encountered people who are happy to know what a collective of x, and their amusement about how well the noun fits an animal group. It seems to be lost on the general population how deliberate word choice ends up being, and how certain people throughout time have tried to make some words happen. Mark Fraunfelder comes to mind around some Internet lingo. Some sticks, some doesn’t.
- ConsiderCrying 2y agoThis gives me a chance to bring up my favorite collective noun for a group of animals: a bloat of hippopotami. Although a "dazzle" of zebras comes a second close. One of my favorite quirks of English, don't think other languages have our penchant for giving animal groups special names.
- philjohn 2y agoLet's not forget a Murder of Crows.
- gonzo41 2y agoDon't forget a wisdom of wombats.
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- croisillon 2y agoi thought those collective words were (mostly) a recent invention? https://medium.com/@Naturalish/the-absurd-truth-behind-collective-animal-nouns-f4a4cde48b4f https://medium.com/@Naturalish/the-absurd-truth-behind-colle...
- BurningFrog 2y agoYeah, nobody really uses 95% of those.
- ConsiderCrying 2y agoThey are, sure, but they're really fun and some of them caught on. I think it's the exact kind of funny little thing we should encourage, language doesn't have to be serious.
- aaco 2y agoOther languages also have this exact same quirk, like Spanish[1] or Portuguese[2]. [1] https://es.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nombre_colectivo https://es.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nombre_colectivo [2] https://pt.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Substantivo_coletivo https://pt.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Substantivo_coletivo
- ConsiderCrying 2y agoWow, that is fascinating. I will have to use auto-translation but definitely saving these for an evening read, thank you.
- dvh 2y agoPaint it white and then catch it like a normal horse, duh.
- nickburns 2y agoand all the humans were cheaply amused by the animal temporarily breaking free from its own captivity albeit thousands of miles and an ocean away from where it actually belongs. petting zoos are still a thing? how quaint.
- cmur 2y agoyeah, petting zoos are excellent ways to teach children about animals and animal husbandry. it is very unlucky this has happened, for sure.
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- nickburns 2y agowhose children? yours? husbandry of wild animals? huh? what's unlucky for whom? i dunno, man... might i suggest anything narrated by Sir David Attenborough.
- ChrisMarshallNY 2y ago> anything narrated by Sir David Attenborough I've come to like Prehistoric Planet[0]. The CGI is so good, you can practically smell the beasties. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prehistoric_Planet https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prehistoric_Planet
- cmur 2y agolet’s not be intentionally naive here; petting zoos sometimes have exotic animals (like zebras) but mostly contain animals like donkeys, sheep, toy ponies, etc. There are many places to take a stance on animal care and rights, as well as things to criticize involving this incident, but petting zoos are a weird hill to die on regarding this matter. You should consider bringing your children to one soon if you have any, they’re a little smelly (mainly because they’re usually adjacent/close to a farm), but pretty fun, especially if the people running it are educated.
- devsda 2y agoMay be they heard about the adventures of Marty from NYC, the zebra that successfully escaped to Africa [1] and decided to try their luck. [1]. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madagascar_(2005_film) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madagascar_(2005_film)
- latexr 2y ago> Three were quickly captured after being corralled in a pasture. But the fourth — a mare called “Z” — hopped a fence and has proved more elusive A zebra called “Z”? Sounds like the pilot of a Saturday morning cartoon. The other three were its mentor, its best friend, and its childhood friend love interest called “Ebra”.
- cqqxo4zV46cp 2y agoThe name’s Ebra. Z Ebra.
- pjmorris 2y agoThis off-topic and it isn't your fault, but 'I Zimbra', first song on 'Fear of Music' by the Talking Heads, just popped into my head and it's not going away. I'm expecting others to come up with the Bond references.
- OJFord 2y agoIt's also the kind of thing that makes me instinctively read it in American, like 'EZ'. I'm British, I don't say zee or zeebra, but I don't think somebody that says zebra would think to name a zebra Zed.
- gabrielsroka 2y agohttps://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/missing-zebra-rescued-near-north-bend/ https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/missing-zebra-resc...
- bilsbie 2y agoIt’s weird they need to close trails for a zebra when there are bears, rabid animals, cliffs, falling trees, and all manner of hazards when hiking. So tired of this nanny attitude.
- karaterobot 2y agoAccording to the extremely short article, the reason is: > People trying to come out to see the zebra may be spooking it and making it harder to recapture the animal, they said.
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- bilsbie 2y agoEven if true, find a way to capture the zebras. It’s not the hikers problem. Seems very heavy handed. These park staff really seem to forget who they work for.
- xandrius 2y agoDefinitely blowing this out of proportions.
- 2024throwaway 2y agoTrails close all the time for all sorts of reasons. They will be, and probably already are, reopened. Chill.
- slashdev 2y agoThat’s exactly what I was thinking. A zebra doesn’t seem to be a threat. I’m still annoyed that they closed trails during Covid. Avoid the outdoors, do inside activities instead…
- nkozyra 2y ago> Avoid the outdoors, do inside activities instead… I always assumed this was more about personnel than users of the trail.
- philoinvestor 2y agoBeautiful!
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- xandrius 2y agoI believe that whenever any animal we, as a society, enslave managed to get away from its enclosure (like a prison break), once recaptured, they are then allowed to live in a specific area/sanctuary for the rest of their life. Be it a zebra, cow or chicken. I just would love to think that if I happened to be turned into one of those animals, if I still retained part of my intelligence and had a bit of luck, I would be able to free myself from the imprisonment.
- cpldcpu 2y ago>Several people stopped to help corral the animals, including a rodeo clown and horse trainers. ok