View source for 37-Hour Wild Animal Hunt in Kleinmachnow

{{Use Cases
|Use Cases Category=Real-world
|Year=2023
|Location=Brandenburg/Berliln
|Event type=Public Safety
|Scale=County
|SM event detection time=1 to 3 days
|Description=On July 20, 2023, a free-roaming wild animal was spotted in Kleinmachnow, a suburb of Berlin. Police received an emergency call and launched a 37-hour manhunt that attracted worldwide attention.
|Type=Social Media
|Disaster Management Phase=During
|Used technologies=Cybertracker
|Developed technology=no
|Used platforms=Facebook, Telegram, Twitter, YouTube, X
|Used hashtags=#Löwin
|Long description=On July 20, 2023, a free-roaming wild animal was spotted in Kleinmachnow, a suburb of Berlin. A video has been shared in a chat group and then uploaded to Twitter. Police received an emergency call and moved out to find the animal. According to an initial assessment of the video, the wild animal was a lioness.  As a result, a very elaborate and costly search was conducted. Hundreds of police units were deployed, helicopters, drones and thermal imaging cameras were used. 

The search for the wild animal lasted 37 hours and attracted worldwide attention. 

According to New York Times reporter that others had fun with the chaos, and memes abounded: >The Twitter page for Deutsche Bahn, the national German railway operator, tweeted a helpful reminder that while house cats and smaller pets did not need their own tickets, larger pets, “other than companion lions,” required their own train passes.> 
In the end, it turned out that the animal was a wild boar
|SMCS usage problems solving=Decision support whether the search makes sense or not.
|Use cases thematic=Collecting and Analysing Information from SMCS, Ensuring Credible Information
|Limitations=The uploaded video was not immediately evaluated in a targeted manner. For the time being evaluation of content from social media is not part of the standard routine.
|Worked well=The social media provided visual material that could be evaluated. The analysis was performed with the help of Cybertracker experts. It is recommended that social media be used not only for press relations but also for operational tactics. This example shows how important it is to use social media in emergency response.
|Additional links=https://www.zdf.de/nachrichten/panorama/chronologie-suche-loewin-wildschwein-berlin-100.html, https://www.tz.de/welt/twitter-polizei-raubtier-raubkatze-loewin-loewe-berlin-brandenburg-einsatz-video-92412930.html, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xVAA3yZDT0
|Other images=Lioness wild boar.png
}}