Zebra sightings in Eastern WA? Here’s where she’s been ‘spotted’ in Tri-Cities

Tri-City Herald staff
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It’s been a grim couple of weeks for news, so word about a zebra still on the lam from a trailer escape near North Bend last weekend is sparking imaginations across Washington state.

Westsiders quickly inserted the zebra into images with ferries, the Seattle Mariners, Sasquatch and more places in the greener side of the “Evergreen State.”

No disrespect to our neighbors on the wet west side, but zebras are savanna dwellers.

They like open, warm spaces and, per the African Wildlife Federation, aren’t afraid of hoofing it across great distances.

That means the loose zebra surely headed to Washington’s much sunnier east side after busting out of its Montana-bound trailer in the mountains.

The proof is in the images ponied up on social media in the Tri-Cities area.

Enjoy, and also, let us know if we missed any.

Here’s Z the zebra paying an obligatory call on the Hanford nuclear reservation.

She also passed through Yakima and the Richland Library.

Here, she is taking in the view of the Columbia River from the sun sculpture outside the REACH Museum near Columbia Park and the Richland Wye.

Here, she was spotted raising spirits at Tri-Cities Chaplaincy’s Hospice House.

And here she’s visiting Badger Mountain, courtesy Rick Zimmerman of Richland.

Rick Zimmerman of Richland shared his ride on Badger Mountain’s’ Sagebrush Trail.
Rick Zimmerman of Richland shared his ride on Badger Mountain’s’ Sagebrush Trail.

And chilling with Hanford wildlife.

She was also “seen” helping out at PNNL’s Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory.

“A wayward zebra has been spotted in western Washington! We think she’s more interested in exploring EMSL’s Tahoma than going to Tacoma.”

The runaway Zebra appears to have enjoyed the cool server room at PNNL’s Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory.
The runaway Zebra appears to have enjoyed the cool server room at PNNL’s Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory.

“It’s not just our scientific computing capabilities that could be wowing her. As a unique being herself, she’s a presumable fan of EMSL’s 21 Tesla Fourier transform ion cyclotron resonance mass spectrometer or our X-ray computed tomography,” the lab wrote in a Facebook post.

The runaway Zebra was ‘spotted’ at PNNL’s Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory.
The runaway Zebra was ‘spotted’ at PNNL’s Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory.

“That’s just a few instruments that a zebra may not use, but you could for your biological and environmental research.”

The runaway Zebra probably can’t read, but that didn’t stop her from “helping out” at PNNL’s Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory.
The runaway Zebra probably can’t read, but that didn’t stop her from “helping out” at PNNL’s Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory.

Share your east side zebra sightings at news@tricityherald.com.