A young wild boar in Hong Kong has sparked delight by hopping onto a Hong Kong subway train and major employees on a merry cross-harbour chase that incorporated boarding two separate trains.
The plucky piglet slipped beneath the ticket barriers of Quarry Bay station on Hong Kong Island on Friday afternoon and somehow managed to board a passing train.
Video of the incident showed the juvenile trotting down a carriage half-filled with bemused commuters as a hapless employees member attempted — and failed — to catch him with a blue tarpaulin.
Officials stated the pig alighted a couple of stops later and then boarded a second train that headed beneath Victoria Harbour.
The train was at some point diverted to a depot exactly where officers from the Agriculture, Fisheries and Conservation Department had been capable to safely capture the animal and release him back into the wild.
Best recognized for its densely packed skyscrapers, Hong Kong also boasts substantial tracts of subtropical mountains and parkland that host a thriving quantity of Eurasian wild pigs.
And increasingly humans and pigs are meeting face to snout.
Boars have been filmed operating alongside autos on roads, jogging down beaches filled with sunbathers, sniffing the tarmac at the city’s international airport — and even falling via the ceiling of a children’s clothes shop.
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