Overview

• A Karlsruhe Zoo veterinarian sedated the young bull with a blowpipe on Saturday evening, enabling a stress‑minimizing capture.
• The animal had been handed to a specialist transporter on 1 October for relocation to the Bavarian Forest, according to the park director.
• Authorities report the handover was conducted properly, yet how the moose later roamed the Black Forest remains under review.
• For public safety and animal welfare, the moose was brought back to the Pforzheim facility, where it will remain to recover in familiar surroundings.
• The locally famous wanderer was named Erwin in an Ortenau district online poll after days of sightings around Oberwolfach and Oberharmersbach.