{"id":235783,"date":"2026-01-16T04:32:16","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T04:32:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/235783\/"},"modified":"2026-01-16T04:32:16","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T04:32:16","slug":"watch-forestry-officials-find-lost-emu-in-the-woods-of-poland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/235783\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch: Forestry officials find lost emu in the woods of Poland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jan. 14 (UPI) &#8212; Forestry officials in Poland said an emu was spooked by fireworks and fled more than a mile into a forest before being rescued the next day.<\/p>\n<p>The Garwolin Forest District<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1190027556582032\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> said on social media<\/a> that a hiker on a nature trail in Huta Garwoli\u0144ska captured video of an ostrich-like bird wandering in the woods, but the spooked animal refused to be approached and fled.\n<\/p>\n<p>A search was launched the following day, and officials learned the male emu, named Fabi\u015b, had fled from his owner&#8217;s property more than a mile away on Sunday after being frightened by fireworks.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Panic drove him over 3 kilometers [1.86 miles] into the forest, into a completely unfamiliar and dangerous environment,&#8221; the post said. &#8220;After a night spent in the freezing cold, tired and hungry, Fabi\u015b allowed himself to be approached.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Officials wrote the bird was &#8220;calm and trusting&#8221; and was safely returned to his owner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jan. 14 (UPI) &#8212; Forestry officials in Poland said an emu was spooked by fireworks and fled more&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":235784,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[50,5593,111,139,69,5591,147,5592,406],"class_list":["post-235783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-animals","tag-funny","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-odd","tag-science","tag-weird","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235783","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=235783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235783\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/235784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}