{"id":742196,"date":"2026-06-17T06:41:27","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T06:41:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/742196\/"},"modified":"2026-06-17T06:41:27","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T06:41:27","slug":"mystery-marsupial-spotted-near-montreal-found-captured","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/742196\/","title":{"rendered":"Mystery marsupial spotted near Montreal found, captured"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t\tEDITOR&#8217;S NOTE: On Tuesday evening, at 6:45 p.m. ET, the Quebec government confirmed the marsupial had been caught following an operation.  ORIGINAL STORY: Kangaroos and wallabies are a common site in many Australian neighbourhoods, but you wouldn&#8217;t expect one to hop by your yard in the suburbs of Montreal. On Tuesday evening \u2014 after a weekend of sightings \u2014 authorities successfully captured the mystery marsupial that had been spotted in the area. As Mike Armstrong explains, it was tranquilized and transported to a nearby zoo.\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EDITOR&#8217;S NOTE: On Tuesday evening, at 6:45 p.m. ET, the Quebec government confirmed the marsupial had been caught&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":742197,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194292],"tags":[55444,2837,266236,2840,266237,49,48,266238,266239,266240,37825,44815,145354,266241,266242,2338,266243,38249,906,167926,48395,266244,135062],"class_list":["post-742196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-montreal","tag-animal-videos","tag-animals","tag-animals-on-the-loose","tag-australia","tag-boucherville","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-global-montreal","tag-kangaroo-montreal","tag-kangaroo-on-the-loose","tag-kangaroos","tag-marsupials","tag-mike-armstrong","tag-missing-animals","tag-missing-kangaroo","tag-montreal","tag-montreal-kangaroo-search","tag-montreal-police","tag-quebec","tag-short-clip","tag-south-shore","tag-spca","tag-wallabies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/742196","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=742196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/742196\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/742197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=742196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=742196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=742196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}