Now on ScienceBlogs: Swine flu and auto accidents [Effect Measure]
Don't Stick Your Fingers in the Cage
Training a Cheetah to Be Fast
In the wild, Andrew feeds on fish, sponges, small crustaceans, nematode worms and protozoans.
Benny's diet is very specialized, consisting mainly of the interior of Ramy nuts, nectar from the Traveller's Palm tree, some fungi and insect grubs. He is also known to raid coconut plantations, and has been seen eating lychees and mangoes, which are also plantation crops.
« Animals Mauling Pumpkins | Main | Heron Eats Rabbit »
Category: weird japanese • zoos
Posted on: October 31, 2008 12:29 PM, by ableiman
The Tokyo Zoo is prepared for anything. In this case, they foil the escape attempts of two employees in a giant paper maiche rhino outfit.
(fyi - this video is in fact still available, just blow in it a few times if it gives you trouble)
Via Arbroath via BoingBoing. From the YouTube comments and also pointed out by BoingBoing - Any simple task in Japan requires the effort of tens of aging men dressed in fluorescent jackets and hard hats.
Thanks Bill K.
Find more posts in: 
Medicine & Health
9:30 AM, 07.04.2009
6:48 AM, 07.04.2009
1:15 AM, 07.04.2009
12:30 AM, 07.04.2009
7:00 PM, 07.03.2009
Latest science stories | More at nytimes.com
2:24 AM, 07.03.2009
6:21 AM, 07.04.2009
2:50 PM, 06.30.2009
2:26 PM, 06.30.2009
6:31 AM, 07.04.2009
Comments
And Escaped Rhino Drill is such a good band name...
Posted by: NJ | October 31, 2008 1:45 PM
are you sure this isn't some great new hip tv series over there?
Posted by: neural | October 31, 2008 1:59 PM
I know working massive amounts of overtime is a strong Japanese tradition, but if employees feel they have to dress up as a rhino to escape from work, something is wrong.
Posted by: llewelly | October 31, 2008 2:23 PM
Thanks for the arbroath link. I loved their halloween costume.
Also check out the giant bird eating spider further down the page.
Posted by: eddie | November 2, 2008 12:53 AM
The title reminded me of that horrible early Tintin book, where he goes to the Congo and literally drills a hole in a rhino's back so he can put a stick of dynamite in the animal.
Anyway, glad to see that this post had nothing to do with that.
Posted by: Myles | November 2, 2008 4:25 AM
Ohhhhhhh, I get it.
I read this earlier on BoingBoing and thought they'd randomly inserted the word 'drill,' and that it was just some weird Japanese reality show whose intent was beyond my grasp. Now I get it. They're practicing for when/if one escapes.
Yes, perhaps I should start drinking coffee in the morning after all.
Posted by: Jenbug | November 2, 2008 10:24 AM