A 2-year-old wallaby has been safely returned after it escaped from its enclosure at the Cape May County Park & Zoo overnight Monday.
The Cape May County Sheriff’s Office and Middle Township cops joined zoo staff in the search for the rogue marsupial, who was found Tuesday safe and sound after about 12 hours on the run in South Jersey.
“UPDATE: The wallaby has been safely recovered and is on his way home. Thank you to everyone involved!” the CMSO wrote in a Facebook post alongside a photo of the animal, complete with a joey peering out of its pouch and a triumphant text banner “SAFELY RECOVERED!”
Cape May County Park & Zoo is famously home to Ghost, an adorable albino wallaby with its own plush in the animal park’s gift shop.
The incident isn’t the first time the Australia-native mammal has made a break for it in the Garden State.
Last December, a wallaby named Rex escaped from Lots of Love Farm in Gloucester County and was later found and captured at a Walmart in Monroe Township the next day.
