Call of the WIld

A moose weighing about 500 pounds surveys the surroundings from atop a lawn on the Arts & Culture Centre property in St. John's Thursday morning. The animal led provincial wildlife and RNC officials on a short chase from the Prince of Wales Collegiate school area on Paton Street and through the Memorial University campus. It made its way to the Arts & Culture Centre and Allandale Road areas. –Photos by Joe Gibbons/ The Telegram 1 width:500px;height:332px Conservation officer Marilyn Pike keeps an eye on the moose as her fellow officers prepare to tranquilize the animal in a backyard on Appledore Place in the city's east end Thursday morning. –Photo by Joe Gibbons/ The Telegram 2 width:500px;height:332px A moose looks around in a backyard on Appledore Place in the city's east end Thursday morning. –Photo by Joe Gibbons/ The Telegram 3 width:500px;height:332px The moose, shot with a tranquilizer dart by conservation officers, jumps over a fence in the east end of St. John's. –Photo by Joe Gibbons/The Telegram. 4 width:500px;height:332px The moose runs across a lawn and driveway on Appledore Place in the city's east end after it was shot with a tranquilizer dart by a wildlife officer. –Photo by Joe Gibbons/ The Telegram 5 width:500px;height:332px

The moose runs along the road on Appledore Place in the city's east end after it was shot with a tranquilizer dart by a wildlife officer. –Photo by Joe Gibbons/ The Telegram 6 width:500px;height:332px The tranquilizer dart used to shoot the moose. –Photo by Joe Gibbons 7 width:500px;height:332px Conservation officer Jonathan Foley comforts the moose on the soccer pitch in Churchill Square Thursday morning where it ran before the tranquilizer kicked in. Wildlife and RNC officers placed the moose in a pickup truck and took it to the Paddy's Pond area where it was released. The moose was not harmed during its ordeal. –Photo by Joe Gibbons/The Telegram 8 width:500px;height:332px