After a young puma in Pas-de-Calais, it is a serval which escaped in the South, this time.
The Nîmes firefighters captured the animal this Monday, October 27 in the morning, by the roadside, near the Nîmes Ouest exit, the Gard fire station said on its Facebook page.
“The animal is not in order.
No chip detected, ”said the firefighters.
The feline, a large African wild cat, spent the day at the barracks with the firefighters who finally handed him over to the Departmental Directorate for the Protection of Populations (DDPP) and then presented to a veterinarian.
It should be handed over to "a suitable structure such as the Lunaret zoo in Montpellier", specifies for its part France 3 Occitanie.
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He was found by firefighters from the Nimes-center rescue center this morning in Nîmes at the kilometer delta roundabout, near the Fiat garage.
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The feline which was "docile" during the intervention was captured by a special unit of the Gard firefighters, the USIA (the Specialized Unit in Animal Intervention).
"It is obvious that we are not used to chasing after a serval every day, it is I think the first operation of its kind for such an animal, but, as it is visibly tame, it let itself go quickly and easily. capture thanks to our techniques.
He returned to the large cage without problem, even if at one point, we see him baring his teeth, ”said in the columns of the Metropolitan, a communication officer of the Gard firefighters.
This unit was called in last July to capture Luna, a boa constrictor who had escaped on the heights of Nîmes.