A celebrity chicken has become a lucky charm at a zoo in Japan after repeatedly cheating death.
The chicken, called Masahiro, was originally taken to the zoo in Osaka to be used as food for racoons, weasels, and then lions but he kept escaping the jaws of death.
Now, visitors to the zoo want to hold him in the hope his luck rubs off.
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