Crazy Friday - Zoo worker in a gorrilla suit gets shot by a tranquillizer

This Crazy Friday sees a vet shooting a tranquiliser dart at a zoo employee dressed as a gorilla after mistaking him for a primate, so reports the Mail online http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2649381/Zoo-worker-gorilla-suit-critical-condition-shot-tranquiliser-dart-training-exercise-no-one-told-vet-wasnt-real.html

The 35-year-old zoo employee was shot last week at Loro Parque Zoo on the Spanish island of Tenerife.
Staff at the zoo were taking part in a drill designed to ensure they had an emergency plan in place in case one of the gorillas escaped its enclosure.

A vet accidentally shot a tranquiliser dart at a zoo employee dressed as a gorilla after mistaking him for the primate. 

But the vet had not been informed of the training exercise, and fearing that there was a gorilla on the loose he sprang into action. According to the newspaper when the man was located he was in his underwear. He was taken to the University Hospital of the Canary Islands.

Zoos around the world carry out animal escape drills - and often they use a human dressed in a gorilla suit as seen here in a Tokyo zoo in 2007

'These simulations are designed to guarantee security, emergency measures, and to train people who work in these enclosures.

Tranquilliser darts are filled with a chemical that when injected, temporarily sedates an animal - they work within a matter of minutes. The tranquilliser can be a sedative, anesthetic, or paralytic agent.

In a Tokyo zoo they practice surrounding the escapee with nets before pretending to shoot it with a tranquilising dart and returning it to its enclosure. Maybe there is a lesson here on this Freaky Friday.

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