Week in wildlife: orphaned owls, a shark threesome and a moose down a well

"Tidy a red squirrel in Wales. The Wildlife Trust of South & West Wales has launched a campaign in response to a proposed energy park development that threatens to destroy 40 hectares of forest, home to one of the last red squirrel populations in Wales. They were once a common sight in forests across the country, but now there are just three populations of red squirrels left Photograph: the Wildlife Trust"

"A bull moose trapped in an abandoned well is rescued by wardens in Maine, US. It was only spotted when one of the landowners noticed its antlers poking out from the undergrowth. He phoned the wildlife department, who sent a biologist to sedate the moose and a team to pull it to safety in an elaborate five-hour rescue. Once the sedation wore off, the moose took off running, no worse for wear other than perhaps his bruised ego, the wardens said. Photograph: AP"

"In more moose news: Emil the moose, who became a social media sensation in Austria, has been caught and taken back to the Bohemian forest in the Czech Republic. The footloose moose, whose summer wanderings caused havoc on Austrian roads and railways, was sedated before being lifted by eight firefighters into a transport trailer lined with straw, leaving his legions of fans wishing him well online Photograph: Helmut Fohringer/APA/AFP/Getty Images This photo"

Magellanic penguins were released from a rehabilitation clinic at Punta del Este and headed for the sea under the watch of an admiring crowd. A stag pursued a hind in a forest near Frankfurt. A red squirrel in Wales faces habitat loss as a proposed energy park threatens 40 hectares of forest that shelter one of only three remaining Welsh red squirrel populations. Two mountain gorillas played together in Bwindi Impenetrable Forest, home to half the world’s mountain gorilla population. An albino squirrel was observed in Cape Town. Two moose incidents included a five-hour rescue from an abandoned well in Maine and Emil the moose being relocated to the Bohemian forest.

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