{"id":625134,"date":"2026-05-05T16:29:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T16:29:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/625134\/"},"modified":"2026-05-05T16:29:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T16:29:11","slug":"wallaby-that-escaped-in-cape-may-county-new-jersey-has-been-safely-recovered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/625134\/","title":{"rendered":"Wallaby that escaped in Cape May County, New Jersey, has been safely recovered"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"6abc Digital Staff Image\" class=\"hsDdd NDJZt sJeUN IJwXl \" data-testid=\"prism-image\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/16248352_2024-wpvi-generic-6abc-logo-on-white-background-img-v3.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Tuesday, May 5, 2026 3:29PM<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/svg;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAABAAAAAJCAQAAACRI2S5AAAAEElEQVR42mNkIAAYRxWAAQAG9gAKqv6+AwAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"Escaped wallaby on the loose in Middle Twp., Cape May County\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">MIDDLE TWP., NJ (WPVI) &#8212; The search is over for a wallaby that escaped in southern New Jersey.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The Cape May County Sheriff&#8217;s Office <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/photo\/?fbid=1370027678494992&amp;set=a.219379373559834\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">posted on social media<\/a> Tuesday that the animal escaped in the Cape May Court House section of Middle Township, New Jersey.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">They updated their post several hours later, saying the wallaby was &#8220;safely recovered.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">No further details were immediately available.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"The Cape May County Sheriff's Office is asking for help looking for an escaped wallaby in the Cape May Court House section of Middle Township.\" class=\"hsDdd NDJZt sJeUN IJwXl vBqtr KrDt itslR zFTjo hakZw HlUVI \" data-testid=\"prism-image\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/19043578_050526-wpvi-missing-wallaby-img.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The Cape May County Sheriff&#8217;s Office is asking for help looking for an escaped wallaby in the Cape May Court House section of Middle Township.<\/p>\n<p>Cape May County Sheriff&#8217;s Office <\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">The sheriff&#8217;s office said it worked with the Cape May County Park\/Zoo, as well as the Middle Township Police Department, during the search for the wallaby.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 WPVI-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tuesday, May 5, 2026 3:29PM MIDDLE TWP., NJ (WPVI) &#8212; The search is over for a wallaby that&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":625135,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[270609,79,201],"class_list":["post-625134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-270609","tag-science","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625134","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=625134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625134\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/625135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=625134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=625134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=625134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}