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Last week, a zebra who escaped the circus stopped traffic on the Downtown Connector. This afternoon, a bison fell off a truck onto I-20 East near Columbia Drive around 3 p.m. A man was transporting two bisons when one either fell or jumped out, officials told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
The animal was alive but was injured with broken legs, and police shot and killed the animal, on orders from the state Department of Natural Resources.
From cows to rabbits, “animals have a long history of trying the Atlanta highway system, and, like more regular users, finding it lacking,” writes the AJC’s Ariel Hart.