Police are looking for a suspected kangaroo

Placement in Falkensee near Berlin

Police are looking for a suspected kangaroo

November 23, 2025 – 17:22Reading time: 1 minute.

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They are good jumpers – kangaroos (archive photo): In Falkensee the police are looking for an animal. (Source: Fabian Sommer/dpa/dpa-bilder)

The fire department and police responded to information from residents. The search for the animal was unsuccessful – but it reminds us of a past incident.

Firefighters and police went to Falkensee near Berlin to search for a suspected kangaroo. A resident reported a sighting of a marsupial jumping, a police spokesman said.

Emergency services also searched the forest, but found no evidence of the animal. “There are no kangaroos missing anywhere,” a police spokesman said. There are no confirmed facts for the reported observations.

The “Märkische Allgemeine Zeitung” has reported on the operation. In the summer of 2023, a similar situation in Kleinmachnow caused a stir. At the time, emergency services were searching for a creature thought to be a lioness, which later turned out to be a wild boar. In Berlin’s Kladow district in late September, a kangaroo managed to escape and was recaptured after a few days.