Dec. 30 (UPI) — Authorities in New Jersey are on the hunt for a wallaby that escaped from an animal sanctuary and was spotted hopping through a Walmart parking lot.<\/p>\n
The Lots of Love Farm in Williamstown said on social media<\/a> that the wallaby, named Rex, escaped from the facility Monday night.\n<\/p>\n Lots of Love Farm owner Ron Layden said Rex had been brought into a barn<\/a> to protect him from cold winds Monday, but the marsupial managed to get loose.<\/p>\n Monroe Township Police confirmed officers responded to multiple reports of a<\/a> “kangaroo” wandering into traffic near East Malaga Road and South Black Horse Pike, but they were unable to capture the animal.<\/p>\n Wallabies are smaller cousins of kangaroos.<\/p>\n Multiple videos were posted to social media<\/a> Monday night showing an animal<\/a> that appears to be Rex hopping through the Williamstown Walmart parking lot.<\/p>\n Police said Rex was last seen in a wooded area near the Walmart.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dec. 30 (UPI) — Authorities in New Jersey are on the hunt for a wallaby that escaped from…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":378586,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[1147,2699,2697,79,2698,201],"class_list":{"0":"post-378585","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-animals","9":"tag-funny","10":"tag-odd","11":"tag-science","12":"tag-weird","13":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=378585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378585\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/378586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=378585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=378585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=378585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}