Zoo staff dress up as animals to practise emergency drill - pictures

Zoo keepers have been pictured dressed up as animals while practicing an emergency drill.

Alpaca, lion and bear costumes were worn by staff during training in order to be better equipped dealing with escaped animals.



During the exercise - which took place at Taiyuan Zoo in China's Shanxi Province - one worker in a bear costume 'attacked' staff from inside its cage, while a fake lion was recaptured in a net by keepers.

The drill follows a similar procedure at a Japanese zoo where an employee was dressed as an escaped zebra after an 'earthquake'.