Escaped zebras bamboozle Maryland officials: ‘They’re just too fast’

Five animals roam neighbourhoods after fleeing private farm as officials struggle to catch them

More comfortable with rounding up lost dogs and rescuing kittens from trees, a team of animal control officers in Maryland's second-most-populous county is wrestling with an unprecedented challenge: how to catch a dazzle of free-roaming zebras.

Five of the animals broke free from a private farm in Prince George county more than a week ago and have been roaming neighbourhoods south of Upper Marlboro in a search of food.