VIENNA (AP) \u2014 For weeks, sightings of a rare immigrant have been keeping a corner of Austria on its toes.<\/p>\n
A moose that has come to be known as Emil appeared nearly three weeks ago in Lower Austria, a province in the country\u2019s northeast that surrounds Vienna, and it doesn\u2019t seem to be in any hurry to leave. Sightings of the animal have drawn curious onlookers, and by Monday a Facebook fan page for him had 10,000 members.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s been an eventful few days for Emil. The moose showed up late last week in a suburb of the provincial capital, St. P\u00f6lten. On Saturday evening, he found his way onto the tracks at its main railway station \u2014 prompting a several-hour closure of the Vienna-Salzburg main line, which passes through the city.<\/p>\n
Moose aren\u2019t native to Austria. Emil is believed to have come from Poland via the Czech Republic, Austria\u2019s northern neighbor.<\/p>\n
The local animal protection organization says people should avoid feeding him or approaching him for photos and videos. It urged people to leave the animal in peace and not to make a special trip to see him \u2014 moose, it said in a social media post, \u201cdon\u2019t need closeness to humans.\u201d<\/p>\n
Emil\u2019s whereabouts weren\u2019t clear on Monday \u2014 he was believed to have wandered northward out of St. P\u00f6lten. Police reported no new deployments related to the moose, the Austria Press Agency reported.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"VIENNA (AP) \u2014 For weeks, sightings of a rare immigrant have been keeping a corner of Austria on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":131157,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[2837,4995,49,48,17612,2841,2842,18158,66,28996,323,883],"class_list":{"0":"post-131156","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-animals","9":"tag-austria","10":"tag-ca","11":"tag-canada","12":"tag-deer","13":"tag-general-news","14":"tag-jwd-evergreen","15":"tag-oddities","16":"tag-science","17":"tag-vienna","18":"tag-wildlife","19":"tag-world-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131156\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/131157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}