If something black suddenly crawls out of your luggage after your vacation on the Adriatic Sea, it could be a scorpion. This is what happened to a resident of Halle: After the initial shock, the holidaymaker from Salzburg reacted quickly: she caught the caterpillar, which was only a few centimeters in size, with a glass and called the animal ambulance for help.
“The woman did exactly the right thing. You catch a small scorpion like a spider: put a glass over it, slide a sheet of paper under it and flip it over,” says Oswin Mair, chairman of the Austrian animal protection in Salzburg, who rescued the animal. brought to the Salzburg zoo where the “Alpiscorpius germanus” now lives in a terrarium at the gibbon ape house.
Scorpions glow neon under a black light
Oswin Mair reassures: “These small scorpions from the northern Adriatic Sea are usually as venomous as a wasp. Only when someone is allergic does it become dangerous.” If one sneaks into your luggage, you can see it with a black light lamp: it glows neon!
Kitten in the engine compartment 400 kilometers on board
But little stowaways aren’t just hidden in luggage. An animal can even sneak into the engine compartment of a car. This is what happened to a Seekirchener on holiday to Hungary. After driving 250 miles home, he heard a pitiful meow.
The whole way there was a kitten in the engine compartment. The kitten is fine. “It’s really a great windfall,” says Pfotenhilfe boss Johanna Stadler. There the little cat is waiting for a new home.
Source: Krone
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