The best part about this video of an "escaped rhino drill" at a Japanese zoo is the fact that they had to construct that rhino costume entirely for the sole purpose of performing escaped-rhino drills. Via BB.
Escaped rhino drill
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My favorite part is when it gets darted and takes a minute to pass out.
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The zookeepers get so into it!
I suppose they have to for it to be an effective drill
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I wouldn't want to be the person wearing that costume when they start firing foot long darts!
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The thing about real rhinos is that they can run really, really fast. Like 35 mph fast. I don't think those two guys in the cardboard costume can do them justice. If you had a ton of horned, angry, nearsighted animal running at you at 35mph, you want to have more than a flimsy net and some pokey sticks.
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I was going to post that it's a lot easier to remember your drill when faced with a papier mache rhino with two colleagues in it than it must be with 400lb of confused beast running aroung!
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the music totally made this. plus the dancing rhino too! if only there was a viral video spoofing this....
all of a sudden i think that i have lost my entire weekend
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