Prairie dogs return to Md. Zoo. Keepers scramble as animals try to escape.

When the animals were let out of their crates into their new habitat Wednesday, not all sought to escape. More than a few seemed happy to take a noontime siesta. Others were more interested in a lunch of biscuits, kale, apples, carrots, alfalfa hay and mulberry leaves.

But a few intrepid prairie dogs tried to find their way out, sending keepers scrambling to plug escape routes.

The one that looked like Steve McQueen managed to steal a motorcycle, but didn’t make it out.