Missing zebra captured after almost week on the loose in NW [Video]

A zebra that escaped from a trailer east of Seattle last weekend was captured late Friday, according to KIRO(TV) in Seattle.

Authorities had closed off trailheads at a nature area in hopes of keeping people away and easing the adult female’s capture.

The Seattle Times reported the zebra, named Shug, was recovered just before 8 p.m. in the Riverbend community south of North Bend. Details were scant but the Times quoted Cameron Satterfield, spokesperson for Regional Animal Services of King County, as saying a group of people helped animal control officers get the zebra into a pen and then a trailer.

The zebra was one of four that escaped as they were being transported from Washington to Montana last Sunday. The driver had taken the Interstate 90 exit for North Bend, in the Cascade mountain foothills about 30 miles east of Seattle, to secure the trailer when the zebras got loose, surprising residents and drivers as they galloped into a rural neighborhood.

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