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Escaped 'Rhino' Successfully Captured In Tokyo

In 2010, it was a guy dressed up in a tiger suit that wouldn't have scared many toddlers. One year keepers successfully captured a "zebra."

This year, officials at the Ueno Zoo in Tokyo had two guys in a papier-mâché rhino suit be the "escaped animal" in what The Telegraph says is an annual drill at various zoos around Tokyo.

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Mark Memmott is NPR's supervising senior editor for Standards & Practices. In that role, he's a resource for NPR's journalists – helping them raise the right questions as they do their work and uphold the organization's standards.