This Does Not Quite Add Up,

way back on June 21 a typhoon hit the Inokashira Park Zoo in Japan,

officials said that 30 squirrels escaped when a tree made a hole in the netting of their cage, so a round up operation began, it did not seem a difficult task as locally to the Inokashira Park Zoo, there are no squirrels of the same type that escaped, fast forward to today, 38 have now been recaptured! Hioshi Mashima, an animal biology specialist at the Zoo, told AFP on Friday that he believed that there must have been a few squirrels in the enclosure that officials didn't realize were there, 'more than 40 squirrels must have gotten away in the first place,' he said, 'there are no wild squirrels inhabiting this area, that is for sure,'



but another zoo official, Eri Tsushima, told the agency that animal handlers may have actually swept up wild squirrels from outside the zoo’s walls, she said keepers would be checking all those taken into captivity for microchips that the zoo implants into each of its animals, in the meantime, the zoo is still getting calls about runaway squirrels at large in Tokyo, 'we still receive about four to five reports a day from witnesses,' Ms Tsushima told AFP, 'we will continue setting traps as long as people keep reporting squirrel sightings to us,'


so 30 out, 38 and still counting back in, so if the officials check the micro chips in the captive ones, the ones that have breed in captivity will not be chipped, that's it, they must have been breeding like squirrels!