{"id":73792,"date":"2026-05-03T10:17:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-03T10:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/73792\/"},"modified":"2026-05-03T10:17:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-03T10:17:09","slug":"elk-stuck-on-tallinn-fence-freed-by-passersby-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/73792\/","title":{"rendered":"Elk stuck on Tallinn fence freed by passersby | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An extraordinary sight captured on video unfolded in Tallinn as a moose became stuck atop a metal fence while another waited nearby, Postimees <a href=\"https:\/\/www.postimees.ee\/8462367\/video-taitsa-huvitav-vaatepilt-pirital-jai-poder-aia-peale-rippuma-moodujad-tottasid-appi\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The incident happened on Wednesday in the M\u00e4he subdistrict of Pirita in Tallinn, when a resident of Padriku t\u00e4nav noticed a large elk outside his window, which had attracted the attention of passing members of the public.<\/p>\n<p>A video filmed by the man shows two elk: one of the animals had easily cleared a metal fence, but the second is stuck on top of it.<\/p>\n<p>The first moose anxiously waited around on the other side of the fence while startled passersby managed to help the other on its way by gingerly flipping its long legs over the fence \u2013 an effort which took several attempts.<\/p>\n<p>The local resident who made the film said that while foxes are frequent visitors to the area, he had never seen moose there before, calling it &#8220;quite an interesting sight.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>Follow ERR News on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ERRNews\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/errnews\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">X<\/a> and never miss an update!<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An extraordinary sight captured on video unfolded in Tallinn as a moose became stuck atop a metal fence&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15254,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[89],"tags":[11320,167,11319,166,6480],"class_list":["post-73792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tallinn","tag-elk","tag-estonia","tag-moose","tag-tallinn","tag-wildlife"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@dk\/116510133142016400","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73792","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73792"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73792\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}