15 times wild animals ended up in places they shouldn't be

Talia LakritzOct 27, 2020, 23:53 IST

Snakes don't belong in couches.Courtesy of Butler County Fire District #3

Sometimes, animals end up in places they're not supposed to be.
An alligator was spotted in Chicago's Humboldt Park Lagoon.
A mountain lion once tried to enter a casino in Reno, Nevada.
A kangaroo was seen hopping across a bridge in Grand Chute, Wisconsin.

An alligator was spotted cruising down Chicago's Humboldt Park Lagoon last year, but it wasn't the first time a wild animal turned up far away from its natural habitat.

Here are 15 times animals were found places where they didn't belong.

A possum broke into an Australian professor's office and looked very sorry about it.

Dr. Bree Blakeman found this possum hiding behind a computer in her office. Bree Blakeman

A herd of cows escaped from a dairy farm in Victoria, Australia, and one of them ended up on a neighbor's trampoline.

A cow in a field. Photo by Soeren Stache/picture alliance via Getty Images

A Kansas family found a 6-foot boa constrictor inside their living room couch.

Firefighters removed the boa constrictor. Courtesy of Butler County Fire District #3

An alligator was spotted in Chicago's Humboldt Park Lagoon and was later apprehended.

An alligator in the Everglades, where it belongs. reisegraf.ch/Shutterstock

Little blue penguins kept returning to a sushi shop in Wellington, New Zealand.

A little blue penguin. Shutterstock

An alligator climbed up to the second floor of an apartment complex in Naples, Florida.

An alligator was found in an apartment complex. Rob Carr/Getty Images

A polar bear ended up lost in the suburbs of Siberia, Russia, over 300 miles from home.

A polar bear. Nagel Photography/Shutterstock

A mountain lion was seen roaming in Des Moines, Iowa.

A mountain lion. Liz Miller/Shutterstock

A kangaroo reportedly hopped across a bridge in Grand Chute, Wisconsin.

Not usually a sign that's necessary in Wisconsin. aztekphoto/Shutterstock

A mountain lion tried to enter a casino in Reno, Nevada.

A mountain lion bares its teeth. Ondrej Chvatal/Shutterstock

A black bear was removed from a tree along the New Jersey Turnpike.

A black bear. Gerald Herbert/AP Images

An elephant was found wandering in Westtown, New York, about 70 miles from New York City.

Elephants pictured in Botswana, where they belong. Mike Hutchings/Reuters

After eluding wildlife officials for three years, a monkey was finally caught in St. Petersburg, Florida.

A rhesus macaque monkey. Szymon Mucha/Shutterstock

A flamingo that escaped a Wichita, Kansas, zoo was spotted eight years later living in the Gulf of Mexico 670 miles away.

The flamingo found love. Paul Hanna/Reuters

Rusty the red panda escaped from the Smithsonian National Zoo in Washington, DC.

A red panda cub. AP Photo/Elaine Thompson

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