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Kangaroo escaped from zoo – “doesn’t listen to his name Willi”
Willi from the Hof Zoo is a Bennett’s kangaroo and looks something like this specimen
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The Hof Zoo is missing one of its residents. It is completely unclear how Kangaroo Buck was able to escape Will. When you search, you notice a funny detail.
Where is Kangaroo Buck Willi? That would be the zoo in Hof is only too happy to know. The animal has not been in its enclosure since Saturday morning, as the zoo in the city in northeast Bavaria writes on its Instagram page. It is still being clarified how it was able to get out of the fence and the zoo.
According to the description, Willi is gray-brown, has a body height of a good 70 centimeters and is completely harmless. However, he seems to be an idiosyncratic character, as the zoo expressly emphasizes in its post that the animal “does not answer to its name Willi”. This funny detail is picked up with relish and quoted eagerly in the local press.
Now, escaped zoo animals are not that unusual, especially in summer. However, Bayerischer Rundfunk found Kangaroo Willi’s disappearance worth more research, and it emerged that a thermal drone was currently being used to search for the hopping runaway at night. Such a drone could make the temperature of bodies visible in the dark. But so far none of this has helped. Willi remains missing.
He was last seen on Saturday night with the help of the police, according to the zoo’s Instagram post. But he “evaded attempts to arrest him.”
It is now suspected that the escaped kangaroo is hiding somewhere in the vegetation. Anyone who sees Willi should not chase the animal so as not to scare it, but rather call the police. According to the BR, the zoo employees are prepared to calm Willi down with tranquilizer darts and capture him.
According to the BR, Willi is a Bennett kangaroo. This medium-sized marsupial species occurs naturally in Australia and on the Australian island of Tasmania.
In any case, Kangaroo Willi shouldn’t be hungry
Willi was probably quite stressed, BR learned from the zoo in Hof. Simply because the animal hears many noises for the first time in its life. However, hunger would not cause any stress because Willi found enough leaves and grass in nature, zoo director David Pruß told the broadcaster. Willi is sitting in the Bavarian late summer nature “in the middle of his food bowl.”
Now everyone hopes that Willi doesn’t meet a hungry fox. Because these native predators can be quite dangerous to a medium-sized kangaroo. There is also the risk that Willi will run into the street and be run over.
According to reports, the animal was last seen at the weekend in downtown Hof near the zoo. After that, his trace is lost. Anyone who comes across a kangaroo in the Hof area that cannot be addressed by the name Willi can be pretty sure: it is Willi.
Sources: The zoo in Hof on Instagram“Frankenpost“, Bavarian radio“Southgerman newspaper“
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