A bird called "Gingao Hornbill" with a body length of about 70 cm, which is bred at a zoo in Higashimatsuyama City, Saitama Prefecture, escaped from its cage on the 4th. The bird is near the zoo and the staff are trying to capture it, but it has not been caught after two days.
At around 4 a.m. on the 10th, at the Saitama Children's Zoological Nature Park in Higashimatsuyama City, a female gingao hornbill escaped from its cage.
The bird temporarily escaped to a neighboring golf course, but it remains in or near the zoo, and staff are trying to capture it.
The ginger hornbill is a type of hornbill with a large beak, a bird with a body length of about 1 cm that lives in East Africa, and is characterized by the gray color of its cheeks.
There are nine birds in this zoo, and two of them were moved to a cage with a roof as a measure against avian influenza, and when the staff tried to feed them, one of them used its beak to push the gap in the door and escaped.
The ginger hornbill is a bird with a dexterous beak, but it is docile and does not harm people.
At the Children's Animal Nature Park, the sounds of their friends are played on a loudspeaker so that they do not go far, and he says, "It is difficult to catch them, and you have to wait for them to come down hungry.