Kangaroo on the Run Caught in Austria

A fugitive kangaroo was caught in Austria on Sunday, when it was spotted jumping along a rural road.

This is reported by Allgauer Zeitung.

Police officers reportedly spotted the animal in a field near the small town of Hollabrunn, near Vienna.

The kangaroo escaped from its owner's house in the village of Alberndorf by squeezing through a small hole in the fence, the owner of the marsupial said.

The Australian animal, named Captain, was spotted in the town and photographed by local residents.

Captain's owner urged members of the public to contact the authorities and not to try to catch the animal on their own, as the kangaroo is shy around strangers and is likely to run away.

The same kangaroo had previously escaped from its owner in 2021 and was then safely caught.

It is noted that the animal was anaesthetised and handed over to the owner of the kangaroo farm after a veterinary examination.

According to the police, it is now being investigated whether the owner legally owned the animal, which usually lives in Australia.

Earlier, The Gaze reported that a video was posted online showing a blurry footage of a lioness-like animal eating something in the bushes in the suburbs of the German capital.

The local authorities recognised the footage as authentic and launched a large-scale search operation, urging local residents to be careful, stay indoors and avoid the nearby forests. Local residents were also warned to be especially careful with their pets and farm animals and not to let them out into the open.

The large-scale operation exhausted police resources. Along with hundreds of police officers, helicopters and thermal imagers were used.

There are about two dozen registered lions in the state of Brandenburg, which borders Berlin. However, they have all been counted. So the authorities wondered whether the suspected lioness had been kept illegally, as no one had come forward to claim ownership.

After a fruitless two-day hunt by police, hunters and veterinarians for the suspected lioness in a wooded suburb of Berlin, the local mayor said on Friday that the animal could in fact be a wild boar. "Everything points to the fact that it is not a lioness," Michael Grübert, mayor of Kleinmachnow, where the suspected lion was first spotted, told a news conference.

Police said they found no sign of a lion or any other large predator after a massive search in Berlin that was launched following reports of a lioness on the streets. Two experts who examined the video footage that triggered the search told police that the animal in the video was most likely a wild boar. About 220 people took part in the search. In addition to police officers, veterinarians and hunters also took part, but they were unable to find any traces of the suspected large predator.