{"id":710092,"date":"2026-06-02T09:33:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T09:33:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/710092\/"},"modified":"2026-06-02T09:33:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T09:33:08","slug":"search-for-missing-tasmanian-devil-at-popular-gold-coast-wildlife-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/710092\/","title":{"rendered":"Search for missing Tasmanian devil at popular Gold Coast wildlife park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">A Gold Coast theme park has been closed as staff search for a missing Tasmanian devil named Mary.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">The young marsupial is one of two recent arrivals to Paradise Country in Oxenford but staff noticed the animal was missing from a secure indoor habitat during Tuesday&#8217;s routine morning check.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">The wildlife team failed to locate the animal from the vicinity surrounding the habitat, which has an access to a small outdoor area.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">A spokesperson for Village Roadshow Theme Parks said there was no evidence of damage or structural issues that would allow Mary to escape.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">&#8220;The welfare of the animals in our care is our highest priority, and our habitats are specifically designed to ensure the safety and security of each species,&#8221; the spokesperson said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">&#8220;Incidents of this nature are extremely rare.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">The park was closed as a precaution as staff expanded the search, including reviewing security footage.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Thermal imaging equipment will be used to assist the search for the devil overnight, when the species is most active.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">The park has notified Biosecurity Queensland and said it is working closely with relevant authorities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Gold Coast theme park has been closed as staff search for a missing Tasmanian devil named Mary.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":710093,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[64,63,29502,2485,45318,128,21482,78865,338,280582],"class_list":["post-710092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-escaped","tag-gold-coast","tag-missing","tag-science","tag-tasmanian-devil","tag-theme-park","tag-wildlife","tag-wildlife-park"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710092","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=710092"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710092\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/710093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=710092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=710092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=710092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}