Take a good look at this little animal and admire its strength. His name is Willy and, despite his docile appearance, he has proven to have a confident and stubborn temper, like all prairie dogs. It is no coincidence that he has decided to rebel against his imprisonment and has escaped from the enclosure of the German zoo of Bergzoo, in Halle, more than a hundred times.
He is about to end up run over, his mother saves him
Take a good look at this little animal and admire its strength. His name is Willy and, in spite of his docile appearance, he has shown that he has a sure and stubborn temper, like all the examples of Prairie dog. It is no coincidence that he decided to rebel against his imprisonment and escaped from the enclosure of the German zoo in Bergzoo, in Halle, more than a hundred times.
Germany's most tried-and-tested tax evader is so clever that caretaker Petra Strecker now has the mission to check it and eventually bring it back "home". “Willy has lived with us since April. Initially, without problems. However, in June, the villain discovered that he could climb over the surrounding wall ", said his jailer.
That's how he started leaving his enclosure to wander around to explore the rest of the zoo. But those days of freedom seem to be over. The zoo installed plexiglass glass above and below his wall, to prevent him from escaping, in defiance of his sacrosanct right to be free.
Prairie dogs (Cynomys Rafinesque), despite their name, are a genus of mammals belonging to the order of Rodents and to the Sciuridae family, the same as marmots. They are extremely social animals and live in large colonies.
Are also endowed with high intelligence, capable of emitting more than 25 different sounds, similar to the barking of dogs, depending on the type of danger approaching. Also, and above all, because of these characteristics, poor Willy's escapes, which each time ended in failure, tear the heart.
Roberta Ragni
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