While the wandering beasts have entertained residents and sparked an impromptu
metropolitan safari of social media pictures and videos, their presence has caused a headache for county officials.
“You can’t hunt them down. They’re just too fast, they run, they won’t let you get near them,” Rodney Taylor, chief of Prince George county’s animal services department,
told the ABC affiliate WJLA news.
“We do have a feeding station set up, and we’re winning their confidence. They are eating there every morning between 2am and 4am.”
The zebras, part of a larger herd of 39 that reportedly arrived from Florida at the private farm in Upper Marlboro last month, broke free from their enclosure just over a week ago.