A raccoon that became an internet sensation by scaling a 25-story office tower in downtown St. Paul was safely trapped Wednesday and released back into the wild.

The raccoon looked a bit bedraggled but healthy after it was caught before dawn atop the UBS Plaza. Technicians took the caged raccoon down a freight elevator to a truck, according to Wildlife Management Services, which provides animal control services for St. Paul.

“It’s definitely a healthy raccoon. It’s in good condition. It’s eating normally,” said Christina Valdivia, the company’s general manager, who accompanied the technicians to the rooftop.

The animal was later released on private property near the Twin Cities suburb of Shakopee.

The raccoon’s adventures caused a stir on social media as it scaled the tower Tuesday, with many Twitter users voicing concern for its safety or joking about the drama as its seemly death-defying climb was livestreamed by several broadcasters. Valdivia said her mother-in-law saw it on the news in Chile.

My picture from the 13th floor around noon. Hope he makes it down OK! #mprraccoon pic.twitter.com/gfVWysn9iO

— Ben (@Johnson88Ben) June 12, 2018

The animal made it to the roof early Wednesday, where traps baited with cat food were waiting.

Minnesota Public Radio, which broke the story and closely followed the raccoon’s climb from its headquarters less than a block away, branded the animal #mprraccoon.

Having a very meta day here with the #mprraccoon. @MPRnews pic.twitter.com/NIzU0aeB2O

— Tim Nelson (@timnelson_mpr) June 12, 2018

Among those riveted was Suzanne MacDonald, a raccoon behavior expert at York University in Toronto.

“Raccoons don’t think ahead very much, so raccoons don’t have very good impulse control,” she said, admitting she could barely sleep she was so worried about the animal. “I don’t think the raccoon realized when it started climbing what it was in for.”

HAPPENING NOW: A Raccoon is scaling a Skyscraper in St. Paul, #Minnesota The raccoon was spotted near the top of the 24-story UBS Tower on Tuesday afternoon, and was reportedly on it’s journey to the top the last 2 days without food or water 🎥 @horizon_rider

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Initial speculation was that the raccoon climbed to a lower part of the building, frequented by pigeons, in search of bird eggs. But workers who tried to lure it down with a wooden ramp likely just scared it, said Phil Jenni, executive director of the Wildlife Rehabilitation Center of Minnesota.

So it did what raccoons do when they’re stressed: it climbed.

There they are! Your infamous #mprraccoon! pic.twitter.com/mwZ8iQPSf8

— Evan Frost (@efrostee) June 13, 2018

Here she goes, the #mprraccoon with an extra can of cat food for the ride. pic.twitter.com/QGiwGDUtxp

— Tim Nelson (@timnelson_mpr) June 13, 2018

It’s not unusual for raccoons to climb fairly tall trees and other structures, according to MacDonald and Jenni, though neither had heard of one climbing such a tall building before.

MacDonald said one raccoon grabbed attention in 2015, after climbing 699 feet (213 meters) up a construction crane in Toronto. It safely climbed down on its own.

Jenni said the outpouring of concern online was encouraging, but he noted it’s often best to leave wild animals alone.

“The narrative that developed was this raccoon was stranded and needed rescuing. I’m not sure that was true. It was behaving like a lot of raccoons do,” he said.

(AP)