Missing: 5-Year-Old; 20 Inches Long, Big Nose

Anteater breaks out of Tokyo confinement for second time since 2005
By Marie Morris,  Newser Staff
Posted Sep 22, 2008 2:07 PM CDT
Missing: 5-Year-Old; 20 Inches Long, Big Nose
An anteater at a German zoo poses for a photographer.   (Getty Images (by Event))

Tae the anteater is on the run—again. Dozens of humans are searching for the 5-year-old, a resident of Tokyo's Sunshine International Aquarium who engineered a jailbreak Saturday by opening a sliding door, the Asahi Shimbun reports. Tae previously enjoyed a taste of freedom in 2005, when she skipped out of the aquarium for a day.
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