{"id":755979,"date":"2026-08-31T21:20:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-31T21:20:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/755979\/"},"modified":"2026-08-31T21:20:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T21:20:11","slug":"escaped-wallaby-spotted-hopping-through-cornwall-town","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/755979\/","title":{"rendered":"Escaped wallaby spotted hopping through Cornwall town"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s not the first time a wallaby has been spotted in CornwallKatie Timms<\/a> Regional Head of Content and SWNS Filipa Gaspar<\/p>\n

16:00, 31 Aug 2026<\/p>\n

Escaped wallaby spotted in the Liskeard Business Park <\/p>\n

A wallaby has been seen hopping through the Cornish countryside again, leaving locals baffled. Scot Weller was driving into Liskeard<\/a> when he spotted what he first mistook for a dog in the road ahead.<\/p>\n

The owner of Original Cornish Pasties<\/a> says the creature was bouncing along the carriageway in front of him during his morning commute. He then realised it was a wallaby.<\/p>\n

In June, Neil Hardyman was on his way to work<\/a> 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 June 3 and his mate Darren Marlow shared it in a local Facebook<\/a> group and with CornwallLive<\/a>. Like Scot, Neil “couldn’t believe” his eyes.<\/p>\n

Scot, who spotted the wallaby in the early hours on August 24, said several vehicles were travelling behind him and, concerned the animal might be struck, he decided to tail it.<\/p>\n

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Scot Weller was caught on the hop when he spotted a wallaby bounding along the road in front of him on his way to work.(Image: Jam Press\/Original Cornish Pasties)<\/p>\n

The wallaby then hopped onto the pavement and came to a halt. He said: “But then I realised it was hopping and that it was a wallaby on the loose.”<\/p>\n

Scot drew up alongside and remarked to the escaped animal: “Hello, you’re not from around here, are you?”.<\/p>\n

The creature then vanished down a side street towards the local Co-op.<\/p>\n

“It was a bit sad that he was out there on his own, as there can’t have been much for it to eat because of the heatwave we’ve been having,” Scot said.<\/p>\n

“I just thought, ‘Poor thing, he’s lost.'”<\/p>\n

He contacted police via 101 to report the sighting, though the call handler initially struggled to grasp what he was describing.<\/p>\n

“I told her, ‘There’s a wallaby hopping up the street,’ and she replied, ‘The Australian animal, like a small kangaroo? Right, OK.'”.<\/p>\n

The wallaby has reportedly been spotted elsewhere around Liskeard. A leisure centre employee is also reported to have caught sight of the creature over the weekend on the secondary school playing fields.<\/p>\n

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The escaped wallaby in Liskeard(Image: SWNS)<\/p>\n

A Devon and Cornwall Police<\/a> spokesperson confirmed that the animal had vanished by the time officers reached the scene.<\/p>\n

They said: “We were called to a report of a wallaby seen on Dean Street, Liskeard, shortly before 6am today, August 24. Officers carried out an area search but did not locate the animal.”<\/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

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

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Scot Weller was driving into Liskeard when he spotted what he first mistook for a dog in the road ahead(Image: SWNS)<\/p>\n

Henry Hallam, 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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It’s not the first time a wallaby has been spotted in CornwallKatie Timms Regional Head of Content and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":755980,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[14689,90,141755,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-755979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-devon-and-cornwall-police","tag-science","tag-the-co-operative","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/755979","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=755979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/755979\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/755980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=755979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=755979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=755979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}