A real possum nestled among soft toys and animals in a gift shop has thrilled passengers and given airport staff something unusual to deal with in Hobart.<\/p>\n
Liam Bloomfield, multi-site manager with Lagardere AWPL, at Hobart’s airport in Cambridge, said staff members found the possum around 11.45am today.<\/p>\n
“We found the possum sitting within the native plush,” he said.<\/p>\n
“It looked like he was pretty comfortable with his friends there.”Loading…<\/p>\n
Mr Bloomfield said the animal “was not stressed” and appeared calm \u2014 although things became much less calm when the animal left the store and took a tour of the airport.<\/p>\n
“We had passengers here, there and everywhere, taking videos,” he said.<\/p>\n
“It was a bit of a mad rush to make sure it was safe and no passengers were disrupted and that the possum got back home.”<\/p>\n
Mr Bloomfield said the real possum was “safely escorted” out of the terminal by Hobart Airport management.<\/p>\n
He said how the possum got into the airport building was “a true mystery”, but speculated it could be because of “redevelopment works” that are underway.<\/p>\n
He described the possum’s visit as a “nice little spike of happiness” during a normal day’s airport business.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A real possum nestled among soft toys and animals in a gift shop has thrilled passengers and given…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":530947,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[238714,238715,228831,79,201],"class_list":["post-530946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-hobart-airport","tag-lagardere-awpl","tag-possum","tag-science","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530946","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=530946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530946\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/530947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=530946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=530946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=530946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}