A passenger browsing in a gift shop in Hobart airport has stumbled across a remarkable discovery in the plush toy section.<\/p>\n
A real living and breathing brushtail possum had decided to join its fluffy friends in the shelves of Lagard\u00e8re AWPL gift shop on Wednesday morning.<\/p>\n
A passenger first spotted the possum peering out from among the toy kangaroos, bilbies, dingoes and Tasmanian devils \u2013 a growling carnivore that inspired the feisty Warner Bros cartoon character Taz.<\/p>\n
Liam Bloomfield, the retail manager, said staff and customers were delighted.<\/p>\n
\u201cA passenger reported it to \u2026 one of the staff members on shift who couldn\u2019t quite believe what she was hearing,\u201d Bloomfield said.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe then called the [airport] management and said: we\u2019ve got a possum in the store.\u201d<\/p>\n
A spokesperson for the airport said the possum remained calm as it was safely escorted out of the terminal without incident.<\/p>\n
Bloomfield said the store\u2019s staff have been voting on what to name the marsupial.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ll have a little shrine to the possum. There will be a nice little photo; once it gets a name, we will put a nice little post in front of the store to make sure it\u2019s remembered.\u201d Bloomfield said.<\/p>\n
Brushtails are one of five species of possum found in Tasmania, and are nocturnal \u2013 though known to be highly adaptable to a range of natural and human environments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A passenger browsing in a gift shop in Hobart airport has stumbled across a remarkable discovery in the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":549967,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":["post-549966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=549966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549966\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/549967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=549966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=549966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=549966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}