This agouti made a short-lived run at freedom last night. (Photo by Clyde Nishimura, FONZ Photo Club)

A male agouti—what the zoo lovingly refers to as “large beautiful rodents about the size of a large house cat”—escaped from his enclosure last night. But his escape didn’t quite rise to the level of Rusty’s famous flight.

The agouti, called Macadamia, was captured unharmed within 30 minutes.

The zoo said they found a hole in the stainless-steel mesh around his outdoor enclosure (which he shares with two Geoffrey’s marmosets) and concluded that Macadamia must have chewed his way out. All the other animals are accounted for.

Zookeepers were able to keep an eye on him and herd him back into a contained space. The zoo has since patched the mesh up, and they will keep him inside until they can complete a full review of the outdoor enclosure.

Macadamia has been at the zoo for several months, though he hasn’t been introduced to his mate, Hazelnut (d’aw), yet.

According to the Zoo, the greenish-brown agoutis typically weight between 6.6 and 13 pounds and grow to between 19 and 25 inches in length. Curiously, they have four toes on their front feet, but three on the back ones. They live between 15 to 20 years in human care, and are native to French Guiana, Guyana, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, as well as parts of Venezuela, Columbia and Brazil. Evidently they are also the only other species known to be able to open the husk of a Brazil nut.