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Austrian fire brigade: Ku (h) rioser rescue operation in Apfelberg
Photo: Thomas Zeiler / Apfelberg Fire Department / APA / dpa
The bull falls from the trailer - and walks through Augsburg
With this road user, drivers preferred to keep a safe distance: In Augsburg, the fire brigade was deployed in February because passers-by had reported a bull running freely on a bridge over the Lech.
According to the fire department, the bull had previously fallen from a trailer.
He wasn't surprised, said a fire brigade spokesman for the Augsburger Allgemeine: The trailer seemed rather small to him for the rather large animal.
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Runaway bull in Augsburg: walk across the Lech
Photo: Augsburg fire brigade
Because of the incident, traffic on the bridge came to a complete standstill.
The fire brigade later caught the lost ungulates on a factory site and loaded it onto an animal transporter.
Baboon flees from sterilization
These monkeys were apparently dexterous: In Australia, a male baboon escaped on the way to being sterilized in Sydney.
According to authorities, it fled with two females.
The animals had opened a lock during their transport.
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Two of the three baboons that fled: After they were caught again, they got carrots
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After two hours of freedom, the police and animal rights activists caught the three baboons again.
The 15-year-old primate was then operated on as planned.
The procedure went well, said Brad Hazzard, the Minister for Health and Medical Research of the Australian state of New South Wales.
The baboons are part of a research project.
The baboon, which he named after the escape artist "Houdini" after the spectacular outbreak, sleeps and rest, wrote Hazzard on Twitter.
His two female family members are "relaxed and happy".
Raccoon is said to have turned off church bells all the time
In the Lower Saxony town of Löwenhagen near Göttingen, a raccoon has been roaming the attic of the Protestant church for a long time.
The church bells were also set there repeatedly.
It took longer, however, for the parish to come to the conclusion that the animal sometimes stopped ringing bells three times a day, said Roswitha Kamm from the church council in the spring.
In the meantime, however, one is certain: The raccoon has thrown the lever on the power switch of the bell system.
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The raccoon has been under the roof of the church for some time
Photo: Matthias Freter / dpa
The parish did not want to take direct action against the raccoon, who might be affected by the bells.
The animal should remain in the church's attic in the future, it said.
However, a wire was built around the lever so that the raccoon can no longer pull it.
Cow flees from butcher in house - and devastates it
In May, while fleeing from the butcher, a cow got lost in a residential building in Rhineland-Palatinate.
The animal was able to free itself when unloading on the premises of a butcher in the Moselle town of Bernkastel-Kues, as the police said.
It first fled to a neighboring garden, ran from there in a panic through the closed patio door into the house and devastated several rooms on the ground floor.
According to the police, the residents were able to get to the upper floor in time and got away with the horror.
The incident triggered a large-scale operation: In addition to the fire brigade and police, employees of an ambulance service and the public order office also came.
The cow did not survive the attempt to break out: According to a police spokeswoman, it was placed in a pasture at the end of the village.
And was "expertly shot" on the spot by the butcher, who also holds a hunting license.
Cow (l) in the pool
In Styria, at the end of June, a cow ran from a pasture onto a piece of property - and landed there in a swimming pool.
Residents were made aware of the accident by loud mooing and alerted the fire department.
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Rescue teams of the Austrian fire brigade rescue the injured cow from a swimming pool in the Upper Styrian district of Murtal
Photo: Thomas Zeiler / Apfelberg Fire Department / APA / dpa
In order to free the 600 kilogram animal from its predicament, the emergency services of the city of Knittelfeld and the community of Apfelberg had to use a crane.
32 helpers were on site.
The deployment in high summer temperatures was "long, exhausting and smell-intensive," said a fire fighter of the Austrian news agency APA.
The elaborate rescue was recorded by the emergency services on video:
The cow was examined by a veterinarian, found healthy and then returned to the owner in good condition.
However, both the animal and the pool with a capacity of around 65,000 liters of water had to be thoroughly cleaned.
Baby snake bites man's tongue on alpine hut
Confusion with painful consequences: A man from Berlin was bitten in the tongue by an adder during a hen party in Austria.
The 38-year-old confused the baby snake in an alpine hut in Styria with a worm, the Austrian Red Cross announced in July.
When he touched the adder with his tongue during a test of courage, the poisonous animal bitten.
Because the throat of the 38-year-old then swelled up, he said he had to be treated by an emergency doctor and taken to the regional hospital in Wiener Neustadt, about 60 kilometers away.
Bat wants to take a nap in the police station
A small bat flew into a police station in Ludwigsburg in the summer - and hung itself on a light switch there to sleep.
An officer discovered the animal, the police said on Facebook.
The woman had first thought of a joke from her colleagues, but then realized that it was a real bat, it said.
The animal was therefore very tired.
"Since restful sleep is not possible in such a police office, the colleague took the little one carefully and released him from her office window above the roofs of Ludwigsburg," said the police.
Monkey escapes into the jungle with smartphone and takes selfies
He secretly snatched the device at night, then went on a photo tour in the forest: In September, a monkey in Malaysia took a number of pictures with a cell phone camera.
In addition to snapshots, selfies were also taken.
Zackrydz Rodzi, who comes from Johor in the south of the country, had missed his cell phone when he woke up and only found the smartphone cover under his bed.
At first he thought of a human thief, but there were no signs of burglary, the 20-year-old told the BBC.
The student started looking for his smartphone, called his number and found the device in an adjacent piece of rainforest under a palm tree, he said.
He finally discovered several photos and videos of a monkey in the device's image gallery.
Zackrydz Rodzi published the partly blurred images on Twitter.
How the animal got into the house remained unclear.
Parrot warns owners of house fire
At the beginning of November, a talking parrot in Australia brought its owner out of deep sleep with loud screams - and thus warned of a house fire.
"Anton, Anton," the bird called, according to media reports, when the flames were already eating their way through the house in Brisbane.
"I woke up to the screaming of my parrot Eric and noticed the smoke," bird owner Anton Nguyen was quoted as saying by "Nine News".
Eric was taken outside by his owner, where they both waited for the fire department to arrive.
"I'm in shock, but I'm fine," Nguyen said.
It is very lucky that he and the bird escaped unharmed.
Around two o'clock in the morning, the residential building in the southern suburb of Kangaroo Point went up in flames for reasons unknown.
The fire brigade managed to prevent the fire from spreading to neighboring buildings.
However, Anton Nguyen's house could no longer be saved.
Shepherd dogs hijack police car
How do you apply to be a police dog?
With a cover letter and résumé, given the one-paw system on the keyboard, it could be difficult.
Perhaps this is one of the reasons why two German shepherds took advantage of the moment in Mönchengladbach at the end of the year and quickly occupied an empty police car.
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Woof instead of gun: Who is using the radio?
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The officers had just got out, as the Mönchengladbach police announced, "and - whoosh - the two four-legged friends immediately jumped into the driver's and passenger's seats."
The police officers had been alerted about these dogs, which had previously been running around freely.
After getting into the car, the shepherds stayed in their car, true to the motto: gone, space gone.
Then the police asked the fire brigade for administrative assistance and to take the animals away.
The dogs were peaceful, said a fire department spokesman.
They were brought to the shelter in transport boxes.
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