{"id":825828,"date":"2026-08-25T23:26:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-25T23:26:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/825828\/"},"modified":"2026-08-25T23:26:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-25T23:26:11","slug":"two-kangaroos-killed-after-escaping-trailer-on-i-39-near-portage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/825828\/","title":{"rendered":"Two kangaroos killed after escaping trailer on I-39 near Portage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">PORTAGE, Wis. (WMTV) &#8211; Two kangaroos are dead after being hit on I-39 near Portage on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">According to the Wisconsin Department of Transportation, four kangaroos escaped a trailer while the owner was stopped near the interstate to transfer animals between vehicles.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Wisconsin State Patrol officials responded around noon Sunday on I-39 at mile marker 85 near Portage after they were called to assist after two of the kangaroos were hit by vehicles on the northbound on-ramp from WIS 78 to I-39.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Those two kangaroos did not survive, one was recovered by the owner and one kangaroo is still missing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">WSP asked drivers to not stop on the interstate to look for the missing kangaroo. If you see it, report it to law enforcement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text text-start\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbc15.com\/page\/find-nbc15-news-wherever-you-are\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Click here<\/a> to download the WMTV15 News app or our WMTV15 First Alert weather app.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 WMTV. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PORTAGE, Wis. (WMTV) &#8211; Two kangaroos are dead after being hit on I-39 near Portage on Sunday. According&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":825829,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[349878,349879,14062,79,349875,201,1745,349877,349876],"class_list":["post-825828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-kangaroos-escaped","tag-kangaroos-killed-on-interstate","tag-portage","tag-science","tag-state-patrol","tag-wildlife","tag-wisconsin","tag-wisconsin-kangaroos","tag-wisconsin-state-patrol"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/825828","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=825828"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/825828\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/825829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=825828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=825828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=825828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}