Some reckoned it was an oversized rabbit at first, but the long tail and proper leaping style soon put everyone straight. Camp staff tried tempting it with cucumber slices and lettuce leaves, yet the animal soon bounced off again. Officers checked around local farms and a regional zoo that keeps wallabies, but no one had reported anything missing. Three registered wallaby keepers operate in Aargau with eight animals between them, yet this one did not match any of those. A short video of it hopping along the forest edge quickly spread online and kept Swiss journalists busy for a couple of days.