Emil Le Wapiti took up a long summer in Central Europe

A wandering elk identified in dozens of locations across Central Europe this summer was captured by the authorities in Austria and released near the Czech border.

The Wapiti, nicknamed Emil, was quiet by the officials of Austrian fauna Monday after being dangerously equal to a highway near the village of Sattledt, in Haute-Austria.

It was equipped with a GPS label and released on the Czech-Austrian border, on the edge of the Sumava forest in the south of Bohemia.

It was not clear if the operation had been carried out in coordination with the Czech authorities.

The Sumava is home to a population estimated at 10 to 20 wapiti, and we hope that Emil will join them, rather than continue its perambulations.

The young man’s journey has made large expanses from Central Europe since he was spotted for the first time near the village of Ludgerovice, in the northeast corner of the Czech Republic on June 2. He would have entered the country from Poland.

Since then, Emil has become a feeling of social media, with hundreds of photos and videos published online. There are at least three Facebook groups dedicated to it, with a combined total approaching 50,000 members.

According to the online information portal of Czech radio, Irozhlas, it has traveled 60 cities and villages in four countries – Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Austria – on a trip to the approach of 500 kilometers.

He chose his way through the roads and railways, the local streams in Fortés and swarm through the Danube river. He was spotted on the sidelines of two cultural events, including a Heavy Metal festival in southern Moravia.

Wapitis were once from Czech forests but were driven out for extinction in the Middle Ages. There were several attempts to reintroduce them over the centuries, but they remained unsuccessful until the 1970s.

It is believed that the Wapitis population of the Czech Republic is around fifty animals, much less than the alleged homeland of Emil de Poland, which has tens of thousands.