逃跑天才熊，跳过电动栅栏出逃

He’s the Houdini of bears.

它是熊中的胡迪。

A 3-year-old male brown bear known as M49 beat the odds and broke free from captivity just hours after being captured in Italy on Sunday.

上周日，一只名叫M49的3岁雄性棕熊在意大利被捕获，几小时后成功逃脱。

The furry escape artist was detained in Trentino, a northern province, but within hours had scaled a 13-foot-high electric fence and run off into the forest. Although a tracking collar was put on M49 initially, it was removed at some point before he went on the lam, AFP reports.

这只毛茸茸的“逃跑艺术家”被拘留在北部省份特伦蒂诺，但几小时内就爬上了13英尺高的电动围栏，跑进了森林。据法新社报道，虽然最初在M49上安装了一个追踪项圈，但在他潜逃前的某个时候，项圈被取下了。

Now, three teams of Italian forest rangers equipped with sniffer dogs are looking to catch M49 — dead or alive — and the bear’s fans are rooting for his freedom.

现在，三支意大利森林护林员队伍配备了嗅探犬，他们正在寻找M49的踪迹——不管它是死是活——熊的粉丝们都在为它的自由加油。

“If M49 approaches inhabited areas, the forestry service is authorized to kill it,” says Maurizio Fugatti, the governor of the Trentino region. “The fact that the bear managed to climb over an electric fence with seven cables carrying 7,000 volts…shows how dangerous it is.”

“如果M49接近居民区，林业部门有权杀死它，”特伦蒂诺地区的州长毛里齐奥·福加蒂(Maurizio Fugatti)说。“这只熊成功地爬过了一个装有7根7千伏电压的电栅栏……这更说明了它有多危险。”

Italy’s Minister of Environment Sergio Costa, as well as animal advocacy groups, immediately spoke out against the death decree.

意大利环境部长塞尔吉奥·科斯塔(Sergio Costa)以及动物保护组织立即公开反对。

The bear breaking free “cannot justify an intervention that causes death,” Costa says.

科斯塔说，熊出逃“不能成为致死的正当理由”。

“Run and save yourself M49!” said Michela Vittoria Brambilla, president of the Italian Defense League for Animals.

“M49快跑，救救你自己!”意大利动物保护联盟主席Michela Vittoria Brambilla说。

M49 is part of a brown bear reintroduction project called Life Ursus, which has been working to repopulate Trentino with bears since the early 1990s, according to AFP.

据法新社报道，M49是一个名为“熊之生”的棕熊放归项目的一员，该项目自上世纪90年代初以来一直致力于让特伦蒂诺重新充满熊。