A rather unusual and unexpected encounter caught on video<\/p>\n
12:31, 08 Jun 2026Updated 12:45, 08 Jun 2026<\/p>\n
Escaped wallaby spotted in the Liskeard Business Park <\/p>\n
A wallaby has been filmed hopping around a Cornwall industrial estate.<\/p>\n
Neil Hardyman was on his way to work at the Liskeard<\/a> Business Park in Quimperle Way, off the A390<\/a>, when he spotted the marsupial looking lost and conspicuously out of place.<\/p>\n He filmed the unusual encounter at 6am on Wednedsay last week (June 3) and his mate Darren Marlow shared it in a local Facebook<\/a> group and with CornwallLive<\/a>.<\/p>\n Neil said: “I couldn’t believe my eyes when I saw it.”<\/p>\n People on the forum have been wondering where the wallaby has escaped from and how it ended up in an industrial estate in Liskeard.<\/p>\n Local animal park Porfell Wildlife Park and Sanctuary, which is located at Trecangate, Lanreath outside Liskeard, said it has been contacted by people about the escaped wallaby.<\/p>\n However in a post on its own Facebook it confirmed all its animals<\/a> are accounted for. It said: “We are aware of a wallaby on the loose in the Liskeard area. All of our wallabies are accounted for and are safe in their field.”<\/p>\n It’s not the first time wallabies have been spotted hopping around in Cornwall.<\/p>\n A wallaby was previously captured on camera appearing unphased as it made its way down the A39<\/a>, near Newquay<\/a> at around 10.30pm on August 22, 2024.<\/p>\n Henry Hallam, 23, from Truro<\/a>, managed to capture footage of the animal on his phone. At the time he said it “stopped to give us a stare” before moving on its way.<\/p>\n Henry said: “We were driving along in Fraddon, and all of a sudden were slowing up as this kangaroo was hopping along. He paused in front of the car lights before resuming his journey down the road.<\/p>\n “The kangaroo was acting much as though there was nothing amiss, and he was meant to be there. He stopped to give us a stare and then continued on his way. How strange.”<\/p>\n Sadly the marsupial Henry spotted and filmed was later discovered dead by the side of the road<\/a> after being hit by a car. The incident was reported to Devon and Cornwall Police<\/a> who said the dead animal was reported lying dead by the side of the A39 on August 26 and was dropped off at a local vet.<\/p>\n Others have been seen around manly eastern Cornwall over the years.<\/p>\n Get all the latest stories, sent straight to your WhatsApp – all you need to do is click the link: https:\/\/chat.whatsapp.com\/CKObHkgJF4T5fRZxiGdYqd<\/a><\/p>\n We also treat our community members to special offers, promotions, and adverts from us and our partners. If you don\u2019t like our community, you can check out any time you like. If you\u2019re curious, you can read our Privacy Notice: https:\/\/bit.ly\/41EZjzx<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A rather unusual and unexpected encounter caught on video 12:31, 08 Jun 2026Updated 12:45, 08 Jun 2026 Escaped…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":628000,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[212795,212796,14689,1325,128637,117008,90,123919,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-627999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-a39","tag-a390","tag-devon-and-cornwall-police","tag-facebook","tag-liskeard","tag-newquay","tag-science","tag-truro","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627999","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=627999"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627999\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/628000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=627999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=627999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=627999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}