It
was a daring escape that’s bound to be told as legend for generations
to come. Here’s a story that seems like it’s straight out of a Hollywood
movie:
The Rheinböllen Wildlife Park in western Germany isn’t exactly
Alcatraz, but getting out isn’t easy either. The word around the troughs
at mealtimes is that you need to get through two fences to reach the
freedom of the surrounding forest.Three kangaroos made it at the weekend with the help of a young
fox and a wild boar that were trying to break in, an official said on
Tuesday.
The boar made a hole in the fence surrounding the park and the fox dug
its way under another fence into an enclosure where the kangaroos were
kept.The marsupials, whose names are Jack, Mick and Skippy, didn’t hang
around. They hopped off into the night and managed to get 15 kilometers
(9 miles) from the park when a passerby spotted them. The last one was
caught late on Monday.
