Last week, Hungarian news ran the story of some police officers who [encountered a kangaroo](https://hungarytoday.hu/police-give-chase-to-kangaroo-in-budapest-video/) roaming the outskirt of Budapest, and caught it after a half-hour car chase. In the last one year, we also had [a serval](https://hungarytoday.hu/serval-hungary-europe-hungarian-bukk-hills-big-cats/), [a python](https://dailynewshungary.com/a-royal-python-has-disappeared-in-budapest/), [a penguin](https://hungarytoday.hu/budapest-police-catches-penguin-penguins-zoo-hungary-wildlife/), as well as unconfirmed rumors of [a black panther](https://hungarytoday.hu/black-panther-kishunhalas-hungary-hungarian-hills-mountains-wild-big-cats-wildlife/) wandering around the town of Kiskunhalas. Stories about police or forestry service chasing ostritches and kangaroos happen several times every year, because of multiple ostrich and kangaroo farms in Hungary.
Are stories like this common in your country? And if so, do they get attention in media?
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We had some Muntiak (Chinese water deer) escaped. That made it to the news.. They were obligated to be killed, however we also have some emus escaped. In our federal state they are neozoa and have to be killed according to the environmental laws . In the neighbor federal state they are neozoa and not part of the federal hunting law and thus protected. However.. There is emu plague at the federal border and our hunters are up for big big birds…
Yes, always in the summer time. We call this the “**Sommerloch**” (summer hole). Those weeks in summer when there’s not much going on in sports, parliament is on recess and newspapers need to be filled. That’s when the escaped crocodiles and kangaroos strike and the wild bears, lynx and wolves come straying out of their national parks.
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Sometimes these stories haunt the news for weeks and the animals (if they exist in the first place) even get their own Wikipedia articles, like Brown Bear [Bruno](https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/JJ1), who crossed the alps into Bavaria in 2006 and became some sort of World Cup mascot.
Probably not escaped from captivity but defintively has its natural habitat a totally different place (the arctic)..[The Walrus “Freya”](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bf2XP8Asd-o&ab_channel=Freya) has has become the big news this summer in Norway. The Walrus has ended up in the Oslofjord, Norway.. Taking some days here and there in differents marinas along the coast.. Finaly ending in the innermost part of the fjord, by the capital Oslo. Seem to be in real holiday-modus that Walrus. Seems to have a love for make his ways into boats etc. Probably Norways hotest instragam/selfie-motive atm.
Stories about animals appearing in regions where they don’t belong are relatively common and often get a lot of media attention, but the animals don’t necessarily have to escape from captivity. Just last week there was a walrus that somehow had managed to swim here which got a ton of press coverage. The walrus later died from starvation. In the winter there was a “reindeer” (later proved to be a “forest reindeer”, i.e. another animal than Rudolph) which showed up around Helsinki (a place where you don’t normally see reindeer) which also received much publicity.
The most famous case was in the summer of 1992 when a lion was allegedly spotted in Ruokolahti in southeastern Finland. There were multiple observations in the area, and around the country, and the government even ordered a lion hunt. However, no lion was ever found. The theories ranged from deliberate hoaxes, to misidentified lynxes or dogs, to lions escaping from a Russian circus train.