Mysterious Kangaroo Spotted Roaming in Denmark, Prompting Police to Step In

A kangaroo is roaming around Denmark and the country's police are appealing for help to catch the animal. Some locals said the kangaroo might have been staying in farmland for about eight years.

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Roaming Kangaroo Spotted in Denmark

Denmark authorities were baffled when a kangaroo was observed hopping through a farm in the south-east of the country, as per Daily Mail.

A kangaroo hopped loose next to a road in Denmark on Monday morning, and local police stated they have no idea where the animal came from.

Police released video of the Kangaroo bounding through a field in the tiny Danish village of Oster Ulslev on social media. No one has reported the kangaroo as missing, and the local zoos claim it doesn't belong to them.

On police social media, speculation grew that an Australian Kangaroo is seen through a field in the small Danish village.

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Reaction from Locals

According to locals, it was the same marsupial that has eluded officials for years, while some said it was a local pet.

A woman named Connie Laerke, who lives nearby, claimed to have seen the same kangaroo three kilometers away from Oster Ulslev the previous Thursday.

Martina Bull, a student, added, they had one bouncing around in the Hedensted neighborhood for almost a year and it still hasn't been caught.

"There was a kangaroo loose last summer," Claudia Ringmark said on Facebook

Pernille Nielsen, another Facebook user, said it may have escaped from Vordingborg on Masned island. She claimed there are kangaroos there.

Henrik Kroman, a local, claims that the same kangaroo has been on the run for the past eight years.

"It has been loose for a very long time, we have been trying to catch it without luck, we moved to Oster Ulslev in 2017 when it was already on the run from the owner, it has probably been on the loose since 2014."

Mr Kroman said he lunged at that same kangaroo when trying to catch it. He said it is very difficult to catch, let alone impossible and that he nearly caught the animal in 2019.

Mr Kroman added that he was just about two metres away from the animal when it jumped.

Police Seeks Assistance to Catch the Kangaroo

On Monday, police in southeastern Denmark asked for the public's assistance in tracking down a kangaroo that was spotted hopping across a field, as per New York Post.

Any sightings or information about the animal's whereabouts should be reported to the non-emergency number 114, according to the South Zealand and Lolland-Falster Police. The animal isn't seen as harmful.

Despite the fact that kangaroos are uncommon in northern Europe, this is the second time the same police district has asked for assistance in locating one. A kangaroo escaped from a private animal farm in the same location in 2014.

In July 2018, a kangaroo went missing for half a day in Denmark before being located by its owner.

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