After a day-long lion hunt by hundreds of armed-to-the-teeth Berlin police officers, officials now say they were probably looking for a big hog..On Thursday, police in the German capital urged people and their pets to stay indoors after someone saw and recorded what appeared to be a female lion..Police said the twitter footage was legitimate.."There is no acute danger," Michael Grubert, mayor of the Kleinmachnow area where the animal was first spotted, told a press conference on Friday, the BBC reported.At the height of the hunt Thursday afternoon, more than 220 officers searched for the animal backed up by helicopters, drones and armoured vehicles normally used in terrorism operations.A dozen more sightings were called in during the day.Police were less than pleased when a group of teens started playing loud roaring lion sounds on a speaker near to the area where the search was going on."That helps neither the local community, nor the police in their search for the animal," police spokeswoman, Kerstin Schröder, told RBB.But one local animal expert said the creature was likely a wild boar, which are common in the forested areas of the Berlin suburb.Grubert said police could resume operations if the situation warranted.
After a day-long lion hunt by hundreds of armed-to-the-teeth Berlin police officers, officials now say they were probably looking for a big hog..On Thursday, police in the German capital urged people and their pets to stay indoors after someone saw and recorded what appeared to be a female lion..Police said the twitter footage was legitimate.."There is no acute danger," Michael Grubert, mayor of the Kleinmachnow area where the animal was first spotted, told a press conference on Friday, the BBC reported.At the height of the hunt Thursday afternoon, more than 220 officers searched for the animal backed up by helicopters, drones and armoured vehicles normally used in terrorism operations.A dozen more sightings were called in during the day.Police were less than pleased when a group of teens started playing loud roaring lion sounds on a speaker near to the area where the search was going on."That helps neither the local community, nor the police in their search for the animal," police spokeswoman, Kerstin Schröder, told RBB.But one local animal expert said the creature was likely a wild boar, which are common in the forested areas of the Berlin suburb.Grubert said police could resume operations if the situation warranted.
