{"id":152891,"date":"2025-09-18T15:19:15","date_gmt":"2025-09-18T15:19:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/152891\/"},"modified":"2025-09-18T15:19:15","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T15:19:15","slug":"look-drones-searching-for-wallaby-that-escaped-from-england-farm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/152891\/","title":{"rendered":"Look: Drones searching for wallaby that escaped from England farm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sept. 17 (UPI) &#8212; The owner of a farm in England enlisted the help of a drone charity to help search for a wallaby that escaped from his property during a storm.<\/p>\n<p>George Mount of Roots at Thorpe Farm in Barkby Thorpe said one of his wallabies, named Mr. Willoughby Wallaby, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DOnkvorDaKO\/?hl=en&amp;img_index=2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">escaped from the facility<\/a> when a storm felled a tree next to a perimeter fence on Monday.\n<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It must have spooked Mr. Willoughby Wallaby and I think he must have leapt the fence and the last sighting was of him disappearing through the hedge,&#8221; Mount <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/cvgq1nl7nwwo.amp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">told the BBC.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Mount enlisted the help of a team from the Drone to Home charity to help search the area from the air.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Drone to Home have been super duper, they&#8217;ve covered a good three mile area of the village and surrounding fields. They said they&#8217;re not giving up until they find him,&#8221; he said.\n<\/p>\n<p>Mount <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DOrSIL6jqA4\/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">said in a search update<\/a> Tuesday night that a sighting had been reported in the area and the drone team would be out to look for Willoughby again on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sept. 17 (UPI) &#8212; The owner of a farm in England enlisted the help of a drone charity&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":152892,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[2837,49,48,18474,32198,66,32199,323],"class_list":{"0":"post-152891","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-animals","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-funny","12":"tag-odd","13":"tag-science","14":"tag-weird","15":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152891","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=152891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152891\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/152892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}