Zoo escape puts town on high alert as kangaroo roams free
It was a site that had people doing a double
take a kangaroo on the loose North Osu
I've been working at the zoo for quite a long
time
I started there when I was 13 and I'm now
42
So we're going on about 30 years and I have
not experienced anything like this
The park supervisor at the OSA zoo says the kangaroo
was destined for a zoo in Quebec
It was supposed to spend the night at the OSA
Zoo when it somehow escaped its handlers as the animal
handlers who were transporting this thing uh as they were
trying to unload it into our warm room last night
where the kangaroo would be staying it jumped over their
head out of the trailer and it has now escaped
and we are in the process of tracking it down
Police receive multi reports about the kangaroo shortly after 730
This morning a small team of volunteers began scouring the
area including Dave Hutnick who located the kangaroo this afternoon
using thermal technology on his drone hunkered down at a
farm about two kilometers away from the zoo and realized
it was the kangaroo when it began to hop across
the field
So we were actually able to track it into a
brushy area where she kind of hunkered down
His security company has assisted with finding missing animals and
people in the past
But this is a first this is a brand new
experience
It's pretty interesting
Now the challenge is trying to retrieve the animal