The rodent escaped the woman from the paddock in Ostrava-Kunčice on Thursday, she tried to lure him back, but the effort of several hours was in vain. Firefighters specializing in rescuing and trapping animals arrived at the scene.
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Mara was hiding in the corner of two fences under a full-grown rose bush. “On the one hand, the firefighters prepared the area by cutting branches and prepared with a trapping network if the attempt to catch the rodent in the landing net, with which another firefighter from the other side went, failed,” said firefighter spokesman Petr Kůdela on Friday.
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Firefighters in Ostrava were catching the steppe marsh.
Photo: Fire and Rescue Service of the Moravian-Silesian Region
In the end, the net was not needed, the firefighters managed to get the animal into the landing net on the first attempt.
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“The steppe mara is a rodent native to Patagonia, the territory of South America, where it lives on arid pastures and open semi-deserts. Its appearance is more like a hare, with the head of a ‘guinea pig’ appearance, “the spokesman specified, adding that the animal can develop a speed of more than 50 km / h in case of danger.
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The steppe Mara escaped from the paddock in Ostrava.
Photo: Fire and Rescue Service of the Moravian-Silesian Region
In the past, mary were planted in southern Europe and in the former USSR, they also lived freely in the Czech Republic.
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