CHRISTIANA, Tenn. – Drivers southeast of Nashville were seeing black and white over the weekend, as a pet zebra escaped from its home and began running toward a major interstate.

As of Tuesday morning, the striped animal was still at-large, the Rutherford County Sheriff’s Office told FOX Weather.

The zebra was obtained by its new owners in Rutherford County on Friday night and then escaped into a nearby wooded area the following day.

The animal was spotted running through traffic on both sides of Interstate 24 near Exit 84 for Joe B. Jackson Parkway, causing deputies to temporarily shut down the interstate on Saturday.

In a video shot that same day, the zebra was spotted several miles southwest of the Joe B. Jackson Parkway, running along a small road in rural Christiana , Tennessee .

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