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    "headline": "Shock as a MOOSE gallops down a city street in Hungary, where the species vanished centuries ago!",
    "description": "Police got a call at 7 a.m. Sunday about a moose on Veres Péter Street in Debrecen. By Tuesday, one was filmed near Konyár, about 30 km away.",
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    "articleBody": "A full-grown moose went galloping down a residential street in Hungary on Sunday morning, in a country where the species has not lived wild since the 18th century. Then, two days later, it turned up again about 30 kilometers away. The animal was spotted on Veres Péter Street in the city of Debrecen shortly before 7 a.m. on Sunday, October 25. A local resident, Tímea Lukács, photographed it and posted the pictures in a Debrecen community group on Facebook, and video of the moose hurrying along the road was soon bouncing around Hungarian social media. Commenters could hardly believe what they were looking at. Is it real? Fair question for a clip this strange, and the answer looks like yes. This is not a single mystery video. There are still photos from one resident, separate moving footage, and a call to police: officers told reporters a man rang in at around 7 a.m. to say a moose was walking along Veres Péter Street. By the time a patrol arrived, the animal had vanished, and repeat checks of the area turned up nothing. What nobody can say for sure is whether every sighting this month is the same moose. Early in October, a moose was filmed running across a field near the bypass road at Nyírszőlős, in the neighboring county of Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg. The head of the Hajdú-Bihar hunters’ chamber, Barna Forgács, said the animal carries no tag and nobody has been tracking it, so there is no evidence that would pin down its identity. The moose that got bored of the city On Tuesday morning, October 27, a reader sent a regional news site fresh video of a moose on the edge of Konyár, a village roughly 30 kilometers from Debrecen. The sender’s verdict, in Hungarian, was blunt: the moose had “megunta Debrecent”, meaning it got bored of Debrecen. If it is the same animal, that is about 30 kilometers covered in roughly two days, or around 15 kilometers a day, mostly through farmland and woodland edges where people rarely look. Why a moose in Hungary is such a shock Moose (Alces alces, called elk in Europe) once lived across much of the continent. In the Middle Ages they roamed the marshy floodplain forests of the Carpathian Basin, before the Great Hungarian Plain was drained. They were gone from Hungary by the 18th century, according to historical range records. Today Hungary has no permanent, self-sustaining population. The nearest resident herds live in Austria, Slovakia and Poland, and the lone wanderers that cross into Hungary probably come down from Slovakia or northern Poland. The northeastern side of Debrecen, where Sunday’s animal appeared, borders the wooded and farmed country of the Nyírség, a natural corridor that could let a moose reach houses almost unseen. For a sense of scale, here is how the visitor stacks up: Height: an adult typically stands 1.4 to 2.1 meters at the shoulder, the tallest deer alive. Weight: bulls usually weigh 380 to 700 kilograms; cows 200 to 490. Temper: not territorial and not interested in people as food, but a startled moose may charge, and moose injure more people than any other wild mammal. What to do if you meet it The advice from Hungary is simple. Do not approach it, do not chase it for a better phone shot, and let it carry on its way. Forgács said there is no reason to capture or shoot the moose just because it has shown up, and that leaving it undisturbed is the best solution. A moose that is harassed, or that meets a dog, is the one most likely to lash out. One that is left alone usually just keeps walking. As of Tuesday morning, this one was still somewhere around Konyár, about 30 kilometers from the street where it first stunned Debrecen. Further reading Wikipedia: Moose Image: Jerzy Strzelecki, CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons This article was produced with AI assistance and reviewed by our Editorial Desk. How we work.",
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