Roaming zebra returned to rancher

TOPEKA — Oh give me a home, where the — zebras roam?

Not for long, they don’t, at least when the Kansas Highway Patrol is around.

The patrol says one of its troopers came across a zebra Tuesday grazing beside an Interstate 70 ramp west of Topeka. The striped animal turned out to be an escapee from a nearby ranch, whose owner came to the scene and coaxed it back into a fenced area with treats.

Authorities didn’t specify the kind of treat that would get a zebra to give up its freedom.