Clips circulating on social media showed videos of a zebra wandering the crowded roads in Seoul for hours before it was returned to the zoo from which it escaped.
Siroo was spotted running through Seoul’s Gwangjin district amid heavy traffic, and among the alleys of residential neighbourhoods.
Firefighters were called in to bring him back to the zoo he had escaped from, east of Seoul.
According to the Gwangjin Fire Department, officers received the first report at 3:43 p.m., about a zebra roaming freely around the area.
An official from the station told CNN that firefighters managed to trap the animal while waiting for zoo officials to arrive.
A team sent by the zoo arrived about half an hour later to give him seven doses of a muscle relaxant that eventually calmed him, and he was then driven back to the zoo.
