Unusual Animal Racing Event

The Hamura zoo in Tokyo conducted an unusual animal race to celebrate the start of the year of the Rat. Hundreds of people gathered to watch this unusual rat race, most of them were kids. The title of the race was “Speediest rodent in Japan”





The box had 12 lanes with hurdles, where selected group of 12 house rats competed. The race began once the zoo keeper raised the partition. The fun part was that the rats never stopped racing it turned around in front of the goal line and ran back to the starting point.