{"id":604704,"date":"2026-04-15T02:05:29","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T02:05:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/604704\/"},"modified":"2026-04-15T02:05:29","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T02:05:29","slug":"runaway-south-korea-zoo-wolf-spotted-but-capture-attempt-failed-tracking-efforts-resumed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/604704\/","title":{"rendered":"Runaway South Korea zoo wolf spotted but capture attempt failed, tracking efforts resumed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">SEOUL \u2013 A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.straitstimes.com\/asia\/east-asia\/escaped-wolf-forces-school-closure-in-south-korea?ref=inline-article\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"gap-x-04 items-center inline text-primary-60 select-auto\" aria-label=\"link\" target=\"_blank\" data-testid=\"custom-link\">wolf that escaped from a zoo enclosure<\/a> in Daejeon, South Korea, nearly a week ago has been spotted, but an initial capture attempt failed after the animal fled, officials said on April 14.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">According to the Daejeon Fire Headquarters, rescue teams, with the police and the animal authorities, mounted a joint effort early on the morning of April 14 to capture the wolf alive using tranquiliser guns and other equipment. The operation, carried out at close range, was unsuccessful.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">The authorities, however, re-acquired the animal\u2019s location and resumed tracking efforts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">About 60 police officers have been deployed to the area, while six drones, including military thermal imaging drones, are being used to monitor the wolf\u2019s movements in real time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">A report was received at about 10.43pm (9.43pm Singapore time) on April 13 that the wolf had been seen in a wooded area in Musu-dong near O-World, the zoo from which it escaped on April 8.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">Search officials later confirmed the animal was Neukgu, a male wolf born in January 2024 who got out through a hole he dug under a fence. THE KOREA HERALD\/ASIA NEWS NETWORK<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SEOUL \u2013 A wolf that escaped from a zoo enclosure in Daejeon, South Korea, nearly a week ago&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":604705,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[49,48,66,323],"class_list":{"0":"post-604704","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-science","11":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604704","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=604704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604704\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/604705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=604704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=604704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=604704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}