{"id":71462,"date":"2025-08-15T11:18:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-15T11:18:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/71462\/"},"modified":"2025-08-15T11:18:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-15T11:18:10","slug":"more-wallaby-sightings-on-border-of-norfolk-and-suffolk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/71462\/","title":{"rendered":"More wallaby sightings on border of Norfolk and Suffolk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">More sightings have been reported of a wallaby running loose in the countryside.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">It was <a target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/videos\/c99mg2pykp8o\" class=\"sc-f9178328-0 bGFWdi\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">first spotted on Tuesday<\/a> outside the village of Ilketshall St Andrew, near Bungay, Suffolk. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">Police were also called on Wednesday at 15:30 BST after a sighting on a road in Wissett, near Halesworth, a few miles from the Norfolk border. The animal jumped into a field and disappeared.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">The force encouraged anyone who has spotted the wallaby to contact them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">It is not clear if the animal has escaped captivity or is wild.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">Wallabies are native to Australia but <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.southwales.ac.uk\/news\/2020\/november\/wheres-wallaby-research-reveals-how-wild-wallabies-are-thriving-in-the-uk\/\" class=\"sc-f9178328-0 bGFWdi\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">research suggests<\/a> they are increasingly thriving in the UK.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">Large populations of wallabies have been recorded on the Isle of Man, with other recorded sightings of the animals in the Peak District. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"More sightings have been reported of a wallaby running loose in the countryside. It was first spotted on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":71463,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[49,48,66,323],"class_list":{"0":"post-71462","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-science","11":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71462","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=71462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71462\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}