{"id":560972,"date":"2026-05-01T17:57:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T17:57:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/560972\/"},"modified":"2026-05-01T17:57:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T17:57:08","slug":"wallabies-on-the-loose-near-suffolk-rural-college-otley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/560972\/","title":{"rendered":"Wallabies on the loose near Suffolk Rural College, Otley"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  The animals were spotted near Otley Bottom, and Suffolk Rural College was notified.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  A spokeswoman for Suffolk Constabulary confirmed that the escape was reported to the police twice, first just after 5am and then again at 6am on Friday.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Police did not attend as the wallabies were not obstructing traffic.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  READ MORE: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eadt.co.uk\/news\/25318472.new-arrivals-suffolk-rural-part-suffolk-new-college\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">New arrivals at Suffolk Rural, part of Suffolk New College<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Wallabies are closely related to the kangaroo family and they are usually\u00a0native to Australia and New Guinea.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The college welcomed a new wallaby in July last year, following the birth of a baby marsupial after mother Jessie gave birth.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Suffolk Rural College has been contacted for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The animals were spotted near Otley Bottom, and Suffolk Rural College was notified. A spokeswoman for Suffolk Constabulary&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":560973,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-560972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=560972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560972\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/560973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=560972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=560972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=560972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}