A wallaby has been spotted hopping through a town centre in Cornwall.<\/p>\n
A pastry shop owner told BBC Cornwall he was driving to work at about 05:30 BST on Monday when he noticed the mammal jumping through the streets of Liskeard.<\/p>\n
Devon and Cornwall Police said officers were called to reports of a wallaby seen on Dean Street but, after a search of the area, they could not find it.<\/p>\n
The RSPCA said it urged anyone who spotted a wallaby in the wild to “watch from afar, enjoy the unusual sight and don’t try to approach them”. <\/p>\n
A spokesperson for the charity said: “Most people may be unaware that wallabies are considered established in the wild in Britain, as a result of escaping from captivity, although they are not a native species to the UK. <\/p>\n
“Some people also keep them in private collections, so it’s possible this wallaby is lost or has escaped from a private property.”<\/p>\n
The RSPCA said if anyone found an injured wallaby in need of help asked them to “monitor the animal from a distance” and to call its emergency line on 0300 1234 999.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A wallaby has been spotted hopping through a town centre in Cornwall. A pastry shop owner told BBC…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":749483,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-749482","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\/749482","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=749482"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749482\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/749483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=749482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=749482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=749482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}